Zombie Apocalypse Science
It’s worse than you thought. Zombies enter through your nose.
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Two New Resident Evil Books Fans Will Love
The most recent movie has just hit theaters and is full of zombie-mutant-monster slaying action, but if you still want more of the evil Umbrella Corporation and Alice, then you need to pick up these two new books.
Continue ReadingGeek Burlesque is Like Nothing You’ve Seen Before
If you have never been to a burlesque show, maybe now is the time to go. Still not convinced? How about if it incorporated a Ghostbusters parody, a Star Wars vs. Star Trek battle, steampunk, or maybe a zombie hunt?
Continue ReadingPrepare For Robot Overlords
Never mind zombies, robots are the ones out to get us.
Continue ReadingBook Review: Robot Zombie Frankenstein!
How many of the following does your preschooler find appealing: robots, zombies, monsters, pirates, superheroes, pie? The more of those you say “Yes” to, the more you should take a look at Robot Zombie Frankenstein!
Continue ReadingHow to Make a Super Easy Zombie Cake
What’s better than birthday cake? Zombie birthday cake, obviously. I have few domestic talents, but this is a cake that even the most clueless chef can tackle with ease. Mistakes? No such thing. This zombie rises up out of a grave of chocolate cake, frosting, and crumbled cookies. What you need: foil cardboard box Oreo […]
Continue ReadingPlague Town by Dana Fredsti
I am a big fan of zombies and have been since long before The Walking Dead drew in legions of new zombie fans. The same is true of author Dana Fredsti who has loved zombies ever since a guy chose a zombie movie for their first date. No really, I’m not making that up. She told me […]
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #19 PAX East and Plague Town Author Dana Fredsti
This week GeekMom Nicole Wakelin is joined by two special guests starting with Dana Fredsti, author of the new zombie novel Plague Town. They talk about her book, zombies, sword-fighting, and her time on the set of Army of Darkness. Later, Jessa Phillips of Good To Be A Geek chats with Nicole about PAX East. They both attended this epic […]
Continue ReadingPrepare Kids For The Zombie Apocalypse With Zach Meets The Zombie
If you’re planning for the zombie apocalypse, and you should be, then you’ve probably been studying things like The Walking Dead, Zombieland and World War Z. These are all excellent sources of information about zombies with lots of ideas for what you should and definitely should not do when the dead begin eating our brains. The question is, have you prepared […]
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #18 Zach Meets The Zombie
This week GeekMom Nicole Wakelin sits down with Lou Gaccione and talks about his new Kickstarter project Zach Meets the Zombie. Sure, we all know what to do when the zombie apocalypse happens, but what about our kids? Lou has the solution with his humorous, kid-friendly book. Tune in and find out more! Subscribe in iTunes, via […]
Continue ReadingFive Rules For The Zombie Apocalypse
I’ve been watching The Walking Dead and the last few episodes have been filled with an incredible amount of stupidity. They’re all under stress with a world gone to pieces but that’s no excuse for acting like fools. This got me thinking that when the zombie apocalypse happens, we could be in a bit of […]
Continue ReadingThe GeekMoms Podcast #17 The Walking Dead
This week GeekMom Nicole Wakelin is joined by Kristin Rielly of Geek Girls Network to talk about the biggest zombie show on television, The Walking Dead. Do they love it? Do they hate it? Has the show, um, jumped the zombie? Tune in and find out! Subscribe in iTunes, via RSS or direct download Nicole: Website and Twitter Music: […]
Continue ReadingHappy Book Zombie
I stayed up past two a.m. last night happily churning through a book. Reading seems timeless to me. It puts me in a book-related fugue state that used to get me in trouble in elementary school because the class would move on from reading time to math yet I remained oblivious, completely absorbed in […]
Continue ReadingReview of The Whisper Jar by Carole Lanham
This past Halloween weekend, I spent my nights engrossed in a book of short stories that was well-written, intriguing, and surprisingly, incredibly hard to put down. The Whisper Jar, by author Carole Lanham, speaks to the little kid in us grown-up GeekMoms that still like fairy tales, but with a deliciously wicked and weird […]
Continue ReadingDay of the Dead
Warning: this video includes some fascinating but gag-inducing (gag-tastic?) brain dissection. Harvard’s Dr. Steven Schlozman (author of the novel The Zombie Autopsies) helpfully breaks down classic zombie behavior into medical cause and effect in the above video. Stumbling gait? Chronic hunger? The answer lies in a zombie’s braaaaaaaainz: The zombies have got an amygdala that’s […]
Continue ReadingThe Walking Dead – Renewed for a Third Season
The Walking Dead just started its second season a few weeks ago, but it was announced that the highly popular AMC show has been renewed for a 3rd season. I have to admit that my husband and I didn’t see The Walking Dead until about a month before Dragon*Con. We had gotten it on DVD […]
Continue ReadingZombie Race for Charity & Lots of Laughs!
A few days ago, I had the distinct privilege of competing in the only race I have ever been in, not counting elementary school field days. Every year, my town of Shreveport, Louisiana has two different charity events: Run with the Nuns, a motorcycle rally that benefits children’s health programs in our community, and […]
Continue ReadingLet’s Talk About the Undead
My son and I have different opinions when it comes to zombies. He’s a fan of watching Left for Dead or Call of Duty, where you get to kill the horrible undead in a variety of ways. (I’m not a fan of having him watch them, btw, but I can’t always control what he watches […]
Continue ReadingThe Return of the CDC Zombies: The Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel
Last week, just in time for NY Comic Con, the Centers for Disease Control went live with a graphic novel following up on their May blog post “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse.” The head of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response was on hand at NYCC this past weekend, where he handed out […]
Continue ReadingThe Zombie Family Lives
Want to know what a crowd of almost 900 people dressed as zombies looks like? It looks something like this. Yes, I do think a zombie march is a fun family activity. There’s makeup and costumes. There’s marching. There’s acting. There’s making crowds of people laugh at the absurdity of it all. I’ll clarify that […]
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