These things always emerge in groups (just like zombies) but perfect for the upcoming holiday:

First, I finally saw the Rodriguez/Tarantino zombie flick Grindhouse: Planet Terror, in my losing crusade to see all zombie movies. (Losing, because the flicks themselves seem to be generating zombie-like clones of themselves lately, which makes it tough enough … but the whole concept of the reanimated dead is such a disturbing concept for me that I can’t really handle more than one of these things a month.) Rose McGowan is very good. Rodriguez is one of my favorite directors and is very much on his game here. There is apparently some sort of industry rule now that Tom Savini has to make a cameo in every zombie flick ever.

Then, on Boing Boing courtesy Cory Doctorow, a link to the Thunder Panda site’s offering of the Zombiefie Six paper cut-outs. These guys are cutting edge on 21st century monsters.

Of course, browsing upwards in Boing Boing, one also sees this old item about the nutters at Homeland Security getting all jiggy about a kid who does a creative writing assignment about a zombie outbreak at a high school. The story dates from 2005, but man … I am not a bit surprised.