Dearly Departed,

We are gathered here today for another edition of the decomposition dance. Your good ole pal ObZomb here welcoming you to the party. Yes indeed, it’s time again for y’all to get up out of your graves, dust off, and shake our bone to some righteous Misfits tunes while I give you the scoop o’ goop on all the zombie news that’s fit to skewer. And boy are my putrid brains are a-bustin’ this week!

Shall we dance?

Much like good ole ObZomb you can’t keep a good zombie movie idea buried forever, and it looks like the long-talked-about pet project of Zombie Mastero George Romero, Diamond Dead, has finnaly clawed its way out of the earth. Diamond Dead is the story of an all-zombie rock band whose female band manager attempts to get her clients famous regardless of the fact that they’re all dead and spend their free time eating brains.

Before we go any further, pop quiz: Q: What sub-genre of movie is this? A: ZombCom… cha-ching

I say a hearty fucking Hells Yeah and Amen! to that shit. Equal employment for everyone, including the fucking undead. And why the fuck not? Being dead never stopped the Rolling Stones from touring.

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I have to be honest with you. If it wasn’t for his recent reemergence on that show Psych I would have made Corbin Bernsen for wormwood polish in a heartbeat. But damn, people, that show is FUNNY!

Anyfray… Sez here on this here blinky box that Ole’ Corey is jumping genres–and hopefully avoiding a Shark–with his latest directorial project Dead Air. Wait, someone’s letting him direct? Heh.. I kid you Arnie. Let’s see what we’ve got here. West coast radio host broadcasts from ground zero of a zombie plague that ‘…makes the L.A. Riots look quaint…’ No shit, Arnie. We zombies don’t play around when it comes to that kind of shit. They’re calling it Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds in reverse, and with zombies.

Ok, I’ll admit my brainless skull’s interest is piqued.

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My new favorite zombie & robot loving movie reviewers/foodhackers, Barbara Jo and Barbara May over at TheyreComing have recently put together a delightfully disgusting zombie cake to commemorate their 100th movie review.

Check out the complete step-by-step creation of the cake, affectionately dubbed Orville, after the dead guy in Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things, over at the wonderfully welcoming TheyreComing.

Hey, I think I know that guy…

Natalie Slater of Bake & Destroy, the coolest tattooed baker chick in the western hemisphere that I’m surprised I’ve never heard of before, created the most kick-butting-est zombie-related book ever! For the final in her “Zombies in Popular Media” class… Wait, what? Where the hell are they holding these classes, and why the fuck wasn’t I invited down as an expert in the field?! How about an expert buried under the field?… Hello? Anyhoo… she decided to take on the old stuffy convention of yesteryear with her wonderfully saucy take on recipes– this time for the departed–in The Joy of Cooking Humans.

You can check out her article on how the idea came about here, and then do yourself a super-solid and download the PDF version of her book right here.

Our very own Dr. Geek, Ph.D, a man always on the lookout for groovy ghoulish finds, sent me this drink recipe for an updated take on my favorite ‘big people’ cocktail, the… say it with me, people… ZOMBIE!

Beachbum Berry’s Zombie

3/4 ounce lime juice
1 ounce white grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce cinnamon-infused sugar syrup (see note)
1/2 ounce Bacardi 151 rum
1 ounce dark Jamaican rum
Sliced fruit and mint for garnish.

Shake all ingredients well with ice cubes. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with fruit and a mint sprig.

Yield: One drink.
Note: Cinnamon syrup from Sonoma Syrup Company is sold at Dean & DeLuca and Whole Foods. To make it, boil 1/2 cup water with 1/2 cup sugar and 2 cinnamon sticks pounded with the back of a knife; stir until sugar dissolves, remove from heat, let sit for 2 hours, then strain.

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Oooh, I know, I know! How about a vicious, bloody, ZOMBIE sock monkey?

This is the shizzle, my bizzles! Seriously, look at the craftmanship that went into these gorgeous little monsters. The blood sparkles, the eyes stare off into the distance… it even has a SKULL earring.

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You want a quick laugh at the expense of a dead president? Then click here and let I Wish Comics have their way with you.

Now I gotta warn you, this is a kooky one even for me. Let me be the first to introduce you to Tofu, the Vegan Zombie. Yes, you read that right.

The twisted crew over at the Applehead Factory have been hard at work creating a comedy short cartoon about a zombie who’s had the most horrible thing happen to him—a monkey replaced his brain with a block of tofu. Apparently, this tofu-transplant has completely replace this poor zombie’s craving for human flesh with a craving for vegetables and grains. I’m callin’ shenanigans on this one. There’s NO WAY this could happen. People, I haven’t had a brain in YEARS, and I still want me some man-shanks… wait, that didn’t come out right… I mean… oh, forget about it and just go check out the freakshow here.