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Autumn is the perfect season for zombies. The weather change means less sweaty humans to pin down and brains chilled to tasty delight in the crisp weather, but not frozen like grey matter popsicles. Not to forget a little holiday called Halloween and the kick off to season three of The Walking Dead as well.
Andertoons help get you into the undead spirit with a step-by-step guide to drawing a cartoon zombie. It’s so easy, you won’t have to worry about losing your brrraaaiin.
ART LESSON CLICK HERE. But WAIT! There’s more! As a bonus, to get you in the mood for Halloween, Mashable has gathered 10 zombie movies you can catch this month on Netflix. They involve gore, the ’80′s, blood, sex, Ron Jeremy, chickens, and politics! I didn’t say they were GOOD movies...SEE?
http://mashable.com/2012/10/09/how-to-draw-a-zombie/
He saved it all up, all of it, for his wife of 10 years. Ramjeet Raghav, of Kharkhoda, told The Times of India that he was a bachelor who practiced celibacy for his entire life before meeting his wife, Davi, 52. The man’s age is recorded in the government’s social welfare department.
Raghav, a field hand and former wrestler, reportedly first broke the “World’s Oldest New Dad” record when he became a father to his first son in November 2010.
Ramjeet’s wife is apparently ready for another go. “I think it’s very important for a husband and wife to have sex regularly and when she asks I will go on all night, but for the sake of my child I’ve put our needs aside for now.”
“I am very capable of having more babies,” the 96-year-old lives on a diet of milk, butter and almonds.
He is done fathering, though, for financial reasons. “I have asked my wife to be sterilized now. I don’t want more children, we can’t afford it. I want my boys to go to a school and study. I will do my best to give them what they need in life.”
For however long he is with us, that is.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/96-year-old-dad-ramjeet-raghav-worlds-oldest-new-father_n_1974673.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
The Black Keys are among the celebrities recently “zombified” by ‘The Walking Dead’ makeup FX artist Greg Nicotero as part of a campaign to help spread awareness of the American Red Cross and its ongoing national blood drive.
The Red Cross has started the initiative featuring the tagline “Use You Brains. Give Blood,” as well as photos of the “zombified” stars – Peter Jackson, Jimmy Smits and Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden, in addition to the Keys. It has also launched a sweepstakes offering one lucky winner and his/her guest a trip to the set of ‘The Walking Dead.’
http://diffuser.fm/black-keys-zombiefied-walking-dead-red-cross/
When you die, donate your body to science. To be mummified! After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Alan Billis, a father of three from England, responded to an advertisement seeking a volunteer to be mummified.
“People have been leaving their bodies to science for years,” he said of his decision, “and if people don’t volunteer for anything nothing gets found out.”
When Billis died in January of 2011, Dr. Stephen Buckley and Dr. Jo Fletcher, both archaeology fellows from the University of York, collected his body, intending to preserve it by using the same techniques last practiced by the ancient Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago.
According to the BBC, the mummification techniques used on Billis relied heavily on beeswax, oils, and resins, in addition to long amounts of time in natron, a particularly caustic salt thought to be used by the ancient Egyptians.
The full results of Alan’s mummification will be televised on “I Was Mummified,” a Discovery Channel show set to air on Sunday, Oct. 21.
As for Alan, if the researchers performed their jobs correctly, his body may be around for several thousand years.
Watch a clip from the show HERE.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/alan-billis-mummy-_n_1961820.html?utm_hp_ref=science
I’ve said it before, I will say it again: Monkeys are nasty, evil, and vile creatures. They belong in their native habitats, NOT dwelling among us humans. Proven correct again with this bit of information from, you guessed it, Florida.
The mystery monkey of Tampa Bay has been a celebrity for more than three years now. He has been spotted all over the Bay area, has his own Facebook page, been featured on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, and has been a popular resident in south St. Petersburg… until now.
The rhesus macaque has bitten someone in the area of Boyd Hill Nature Park, an elderly woman.
The victim, who wishes to remain anonymous, stated:
“I was in shock. He’s been here about a year and a half, that we’ve known… but they’re still wild animals,” she says. “Lately he’s gotten aggressive with male teenagers, male people. And the people in the neighborhood stay at a distance, but they don’t realize at any given moment, he could flip.”
And flip he did. Right onto the victim’s back. Jeff Seilbach is a neighbor of the woman who was attacked, and says it was just a matter of time. “You should see my neighbor’s back. The bite marks and claw marks. It just shows you what this animal is capable of,” says Seilbach.
“He gets up in my tree and starts shaking it because he wants to be fed. If you don’t feed him, he cops an attitude,” says Seilbach.
The victim doesn’t want the monkey “put down”. She wants it captured and sent to a peaceful sanctuary to live out the rest of its life.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/277616/250/Mystery-monkey-of-Tampa-Bay-attacks-elderly-woman
Well, just look at what the HuffPost has discovered.
Brought to you by the meat-loving collective known simply as ManBQue, these meaty cups are described as the perfect serving size for bacon vodka or a Bloody Mary. But why stop there? Melted cheese, gazpacho, RAMEN SHOOTERS? Don’t get us started. We’ll never stop.
READ MORE & GET RECIPE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/meat-shot-glasses_n_1929949.html?ir=Food
Almost a decade before he picked up the guitar, a six-year-old Kirk Hammett started collecting horror memorabilia, inspired by a love of old zombie flicks. Fans will have an opportunity to peek inside his ghoulish trove with Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection, the rocker’s new coffee-table book featuring over 300 images of his prized possessions.
Hammett is keeping busy with the new book and his very own toyline – KVH, based on his spooky alterego, Kirk Von Hammett. In his spare time, he plays in a band named Metallica. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kirk was asked about Metallica’s influence on Kurt Cobain:
Is it true that the album cut “Whiplash” was Kurt Cobain’s favorite Metallica song?
Absolutely. He told me that himself. He came to one of our shows in Seattle, on the Black Album tour. I remember at one point, we were playing “Whiplash,” and he looked at me and kept punching the air with his fist, and gave me a big thumbs-up sign. I was like, “Cool. Kurt, I know you love this song. This one’s for you!” I knew Kurt kind of well, and I hung out with him quite a bit. He was a pretty big Metallica fan – I was surprised at how much of a Metallica fan he was. He loved Ride the Lightning. He loved that album.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-metallicas-kirk-hammett-on-horror-fans-hanging-with-kurt-cobain-20121001
The foreclosed house for sale on the up-and-coming street pined for fresh paint and other fixes, but the Hankins family saw its potential.
Plus, at $36,000, the price was perfect for a young family trying to make ends meet in small-town Klamath Falls, Ore.
“We said, ‘It needs a little bit of love, but it’s got good bones,’” Jonathan Hankins recalled. “We just had no idea that those bones were poisonous.”
Within days of moving in this past summer, Beth Hankins, an ER nurse, started experiencing breathing problems. Then Jonathan got migraine-like headaches and nosebleeds. By the third week, their 2-year-old son, Ezra, developed mouth sores.
“He couldn’t even drink water without being in pain,” said Jonathan, 32.
They were about to schedule doctor visits when a neighbor shared the bad news: 2427 Radcliffe was a former meth house.
The family ordered a $50 testing kit and had the lab expedite the results, which revealed a contamination level nearly 80 times above Oregon Health Authority limits.
Buying a foreclosed house from government-sponsored Freddie Mac meant the family was informed about being responsible for detecting hazards like lead paint and asbestos, but there was no warning from real estate agents or Freddie Mac about drug activity. The realtor had no idea what this address had been used for prior to its sale.
It’s a Catch-22 that Joe Mazzuca of Meth Lab Cleanup, a national remediation and training company, predicts others could find themselves in. Based on national and state data, Mazzuca conservatively estimates there are 2.5 million meth-contaminated homes in the U.S. “The signs and indicators aren’t always there,” he said. “You don’t always see the meth residue. It’s extremely dangerous stuff.”
Decontaminating a former meth lab can run anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000, according to experts. Jonathan says he’s been quoted a clean up cost more than his house is worth.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mystery-illness-solved-family-discovers-home-meth-lab-184815233.html
Sheriff’s deputies responding to a burglary call say they found a 20-year-old man asleep on the kitchen floor of a home in Oregon.
The Washington County sheriff’s office says the homeowner discovered the sleeping stranger early Friday. Deputies arrived to find Cristian Villarreal-Castillo, who had in his pockets small electronic devices believed to be stolen from unlocked vehicles.
He is charged with burglary, attempted theft, trespassing and criminal mischief. What about sleeping on the job? Investigators also linked him to a burglary that happened a few hours before his arrest.
Perhaps a visit to the doctor or Narcoleptics Anonymous will be in order.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/cristian-villarreal-castillo_n_1908390.html
Our fun at THEIR expense. Nightmare Fears Factory in Niagra Falls does us all a favor and takes pictures of people being scared out of their minds in one of the haunted house’s rooms. Enjoy!
SEE IT
http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/redeye-people-really-freaking-out-in-a-haunted-house-20120920,0,7122522.photogallery
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