To kill time on a call in meeting I decided to deploy my new zombie playthings on my desk. While reorganizing to fit them in I realized that I had 3 foam people branded with the name of my employer and various slogans.

So, naturally I armed them with unfolded paper clips and pushpins and surrounded them with the zombies. To be nice I gave them an arsenal of paper clips to draw upon, though I can’t imagine they’ll last long enough to use the extra ammo.

(Corporate logo ’shopped out to save my job)

This is perfect because it can serve as entertainment and social commentary. To my coworkers the zombies can symbolize corporate greed off shoring our skills to the point where our brains are diminished, and to management the zombies represent our competition or something.

Though I’m not sure how to explain my Master Chief killing aliens.

I must make one of these!

Not only is it a great conversation piece, it serves as a reminder of the constant threat posed by the inevitable zombie uprising.

Kris and I are large fans of the B style of horror movies. It has been a while since we’ve seen a good one, but Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane finally broke our bad bad streak.

***SPOILER ALERT***
It had many of the genre specific characteristics we have come to love. The pilot was on his last flight before retirement. There were two couples who were in the midst of a triangle. There was a nun. Ah, timing, infidelity and faith… your horror movie trinity has been missed. If there is a character who would be safe if only this happened tomorrow, a woman with a short skirt and too much makeup, and a firm believer of how things should happen you are in for a treat. A bad horror movie can still be good with a less than complete matchup, but all three makes the chances of enjoying the movie a la MST3K that much better.

Add to the cut-out character list the fact that there is a completely unnecessary subtitle for the movie and some amazing one-liners, and you have me.

An old woman zombie attacks a living passenger. She bites his arm, but an astonishing lack of blood splatter is present. “She’s gumming me to death!”

The action kept up; the makers didn’t attempt to make this a movie about anything other than a zombie outbreak at 30,000 feet. There was plenty of fake blood and bad acting. The movie made me want to see a new type of film, though.

The movie explains some rogue CIA agents are attempting to move an experiment out of the country. The box holding the zombie infection is stored in the cargo section of the plane. At one point, a pilot and two rogue CIA agents have to go into the cargo hold to check something out. CIA agents are turned, and the pilot escapes. At this point in the movie, Kris looks at me and says the most beautiful idea for a movie I’ve ever heard. “And he shuts up the entrance properly, zombies are contained, and we get to spend the next hour and fifteen minutes with some fantastic character development.”

Sell it as a horror film. Get a big name or two in it… preferrably one who is known for her breasts and one who is known for acting ability. Kill off the actor and teach the breasts to shine. I bet it would sweep the Oscars.

The gents at Video Jug have put together a guide on how to survive the impending zombie apocalypse.

Granted, it’s skewed towards the British, but substitute baseball bat for cricket bat and you’re set.

Also, don’t forget to hack your stairs apart!

Link from geeksaresexy.com

Various geeky media related items that have me excited:

I’ve been enjoying the Buffy Season 8 comics, so I’m pleased to see the beginning of the Angel Season 6 comic series

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is coming to the Wii! Not some lame Lego Star Wars port to the Wii, but an actual “you get to swing a lightsaber” game!

Smash Brothers for the Wii getting online play. I got bored with the Smash Brothers for Gamecube not because it wasn’t an awesome game, but because no one wanted to play with me.

I predict a very good holiday season for Nintendo.

Also, I purchased my first shirt.woot.
Bask in the awesomeness:

I would wear this to Resident Evil: Extinction except it would seem that none of my friends hate zombies or love Milla Jovovich enough to ignore the sins of the previous two movies (as well as the inevitable sins of this one).

Also, Halo 3 is coming out next week.
I don’t actually have a 360 yet, so I can’t play it, but if you can’t find me, I’m probably at the local video game store, licking the game boxes.

Bush may have made a mess of everything he’s put his hand to, but he’ll be damned if he’s going to let zombies take over our country.

Yoinked from Yvette.

Mostly I just wanted an excuse to have enough zombie related posts to create a Zombies category.

49%

I assume I would score higher if I wasn’t willing to drive across town to rescue my wife and child.

If yesterday’s post didn’t make any sense, then you didn’t click on the image in said post:

Yesterday was “Blog Like It’s The End of The World Day”. Everyone participating was supposed to blog as if we were in the midst of a zombie uprising.

Hmm…having a zombie category might be worthwhile for me.

We’re off to a family thing for a few days, so if we don’t post don’t worry that we’ve been eaten.
Miss us!

Our supplies are holding up pretty well. We’re out of fresh produce but we’ve got a number of canned goods. Man I’m glad I was too lazy to donate those to charity.

We’ve still got water, but I’m not sure if I trust it. How can I tell if it’s still clean? We’re collecting rain water on the roof just to be sure.
We haven’t seen anyone normal for 3 days, not since our neighbors made a break for it in their car. I hope they made it out alright.

It’s getting difficult to sleep at night. I’m trying to fashion some headphones to block out the noise. Not for everyone of course, that wouldn’t be safe. We’ll take turns getting good rest.

We’ve spend most of our day patrolling to make sure all the boards are secure and in our free time we’ve been inventing new card games. I think we’ll be able to ride this out if Brie doesn’t get tired of poker in general.

It just got quiet. I’ll be back later.

I’ve often thought to myself, “Snakes on a Plane is an awesome concept, but I wish they had used something even more awesome than snakes”

I know you’re thinking, “What could be more awesome than 10,000 snakes on a plane?”

Zombies on a plane, that’s what!

I bet they didn’t get Samuel L. Jackson for this movie because the film would melt from awesome overflow.

Coming soon to my livingroom…