I love ThinkGeek. I swear that there is someone at ThinkGeek that is celebrating Zomtober with me, because this came on their newsletter today: 
It's a plush zombie hat. Which is equal parts adorable and Zomtoberific. Kudos to you, ThinkGeek for eat- ahem, reading my mind.
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It's simple math. White Zombie (1932) is widely considered the first feature length zombie film. While genre-purists may revere George A. Romero, Victor and Edward Halperin came first. 
Béla Lugosi brought the now iconic Dracula to life in 1931, and was subsequently type-cast as a horror villain. Universal tried to get him to be Frankenstein's monster, but when Béla came back at them with an interpretation of the monster that was more in line with Shelley's original and makeup that was an homage to The Golem (1915), they denied him the role. For you trivia fans, Boris Karloff, everyone's favorite flat-topped, bolt-necked reanimation, was found in a Hollywood cafeteria.
But we're not talking about dead bodies stiched together to create new life! We're talking about complete bodies being transformed into the living dead. For...sexual purposes, if you believe the poster. My guess is that since Béla's Dracula was so sexualized (as many classic and modern interpretations of these aristocratic undead are), they tried to use the same draw by applying the motive to the Bokor. Okay - enough of me rambling on about voodoo priests, sexy fanged dudes, literature, and pop culture. It's movie time! That's right, you can watch White Zombie on the Internet Archive - everyone's favorite place for public domain films. You can find White Zombie here. Enjoy! While I was working at the branch library today, my Outreach Coordinator came in with his family to check out a few books for the holiday. I couldn't resist snapping this photo of his older daughter. 
No, Samsara Toddler, Zombies are NOT allowed. There's a budding survivor of the undead apocalypse!
I'm not a Mac user, but I have to say, I enjoy the decals that people put on their Macbooks. So when I saw this one, I had a moment of geeky, zombie glee. 
Stickerman has a lot of neat stickers for you Apple-heads, including some basic argyle and everyone's favorite goblin king from the 80s.
The Zomtomber Randomizer was kind to us at the start of this week - two musical zombies! The first one comes to us courtesy of a blog post on Boomtron attempting to collect various "foot chomping tunes from beyond the grave." I have to say, if it weren't for this list, I may have lived my whole life not knowing that Rockapella recorded a zombie island dance boogie - or that Harry Belafonte did the same. Seriously. A zombie song that has the word bacchanal in it's lyrics? How much more awesome can you get? Hard-rocking Japanese zombies? Okay. I'll maybe let you have that one, Internet. (Found via TVTrope's Big Lipped Alligator Moment entry.)
Now to see if I can get "Zombie Jamboree" on my phone as a ringtone... Literally! 
This is what the most stylish of survivalists wear when fending off zombies on their morning trip to get the mail and newspaper.
Part of me really wants to see someone kick a foot munching zombie in the head while wearing these. Do they come in a steel-toed version? (From Entertainment Earth) This came through on my Threadless newsletter today. 
The design is by Budi Satria Kwan, and reminds me of the Dawn of the Dead poster. Gorgeous!
I didn't know until this Zomtober who exactly was behind the iconic "Hope" posters from Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign. I do know though - Shepard Fairey! But he didn't make this one. 
 Parodies of Fairey's art have sprung up all over the internet for basically every niche and fandom that exists. I have to say, I'm a little more partial to Twilight Sparkle staring down at you and demanding that you read than I am our nameless Zombie Candidate, but that's just me.
At the same time, I doubt I could away with hanging either in our library. Now if it was a zombie pony... Today's Zomtober link is the reason why we're all here this month. Well, apart from the fact that we have survived perpetual decay and avoided accident up until now. Ahem. 
That's right. Zombies. More specifically, the idea that zombies are going to rise up, en masse, and turn to the rest of the remaining human race as if we were a rather loud and mobile buffet. The TVTropes.org article on the Zombie Apocalypse describes this device and also links to related tropes. As always with TVTropes, they provide examples of the device in a wide variety of pop culture media. So go check it out, then decide which apocalypse is your favorite. I warn you, the video is from Cracked.com, and while I love Michael Swaim, he's...well, he's Michael Swaim. Consider yourself warned.
So I'm walking from our Youth Services department to one of the Adult Services desks and I see this gem on our New Books shelf. (Picture snagged from the author's site)  Meet Angel Crawford, who is apparently a loser. And an addict. And a convicted felon. And a car-accident survivor. And a new employee at the county morgue. And a zombie.
Sounds fun, doesn't it? I might have to pick it up after I finish Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children... Happy Zomtober Reading! |
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