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BEBE2015, Egg DyingThe first movie, “Dead Season“, wasn’t too bad. A little more serious that we usually choose to kick things off, but definitely worth taking a look at. It focused more on survival in a world of the dead, rather than the dead themselves.

Up next we have a nice surprise, but after that, we’ll be doing “Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead“, the sequel to the amazing, fun “Dead Snow“.

The first “BE” in BEBE is “Boiled Eggs” because man cannot not-live on brains alone!  We pulled out the now utterly broken Dudley’s Spin an Egg. It doesn’t spin anymore, but it is the right size and you can get up some speed by hand so it’s still the best option for zombie eggs. We first soaked them in regular old vinegar-and-food coloring dye to get a base coat. Then we used the spinner and undiluted food-coloring to get those dark, vibrant colors.

BEBE2015, BasketsThe baskets were light this year, but the kids are taller than us: the only reason they’re getting baskets at all is because my lovely bride is a creature of habit. We, of course, ordered some Platter’s Chocolate. It’s hands down the best ever and as long as we can afford it, we’re having it shipped in. Still no zombies from Platter’s, but we’ve got fingers crossed for next year.

Tucked in the corners were some of their favorite candy and a few other goodies. Steve Jackson Games were well represented with the third expansion for Zombie Dice and a couple of expansion packs for the amazingly fun Munchkin Zombies.  Greg Stone’s zombie books, Zombies Hate Stuff and Zombies Have Issues and some cool zombie T-shirts from Mountain rounded things out.

Sure, you may call this a bribe to guilt two sullen teenagers into spending some time with the rest of their family but… well, you’d be exactly right.

BEBE Logo_TransToBlackWe’re kicking off Boiled Eggs and Brain Eaters 2015 (tag: BEBE 2015)!  As usual, we got a late start, but that’s one of the benefits – maybe the only one? – of creating your own holiday: you decide when it starts. In our case that’s promptly at “whenever the hell we like.”

Although our kids are too old for Easter baskets, our kids get Easter baskets and we’ll have more on that later. It’s just one of the manifold ways in which they are spoiled terribly rotten. As usual when they are unreasonably forced to spend more than 15 minutes with the rest of the family they are sullen and grumpy. Teenagers.

We’re starting off with a movie that I’ve heard good things about: “Dead Season“. Apparently it tries some new things with the genre and that’s always a plus. We’ve got a few others selected and, as always, will be making way too much to eat. We’ll be posting activities and mini-reviews throughout the day.  We”ll do full-length reviews of everything in the coming weeks, but for today, posts will be short so we can get back to the fun.

Islamic Jesus[We’re interrupting our weekly review of zombie cosplay to honor Easter in the best way we know how.]

You may be ready to call additional shenanigans on us because, as you remember, we celebrated Jesus as Zombie of the Week two years ago, and then Mormon Jesus last year. Well, it looks like there’s just a whole gaggle of Jesus’s! Jesui? Jeezes?

This one may be pushing things tho’. Islamic Jesus was an important messenger of the big “g” God, but was neither the son of God nor God himself. He also wasn’t crucified; which probably gets him resentful looks from Christian Jesus at parties. Instead he was assumed bodily into heaven. Some sources see Islamic Jesus as a precursor to Muhammad, other says that he’ll return to fight the anti-christ. One sect just believes that he was a really nice guy, but just a guy. One who ditched the middle-east then died in India.

So, the big question… is Islamic Jesus a zombie? That’s hard to say. I mean, on one hand you could argue that if he went to heaven (which is kinda dying) then came back as Muhammad then Muhammad is a zombie Jesus. On the other hand, I’m getting very bored by this whole thing. Makes me pine for the simplicity of Jewish Jesus, who just plain died.

No matter what your opinion is, it doesn’t matter. This is my site and I make the rules. And I say that Islamic Jesus is such a zombie!

zombie_waldo_by_boredman-d7mbv8iAs we’re perpetually running low on zombies to use for ZOTW here, we decided to take the easy way out for a few weeks and highlight some of the amazing zombie cosplay available over at DeviantArt.com.

This week is “Zombie Waldo” by Boredman.

Love to see somebody trying something new! From the artist: “In case you were wondering, the metal wire stuck between my lips here helps maintain the deformed grin you see on the second picture. I fashioned it back in 2009 for a Two-Face cosplay. It hurts, but it works.”

(Disclaimer: Images are used gratefully, but without permission. We will strive to meet any requirements of rights holders.)

BEBE Logo_TransToBlackThe sixth year of Boiled Eggs and Brain Eaters, BEBE 2015 is only seven days away!

This will be a nice, quiet relaxing year for us. We don’t have anything significant planned and are just planning on enjoying a lazy day of over-eating, watching some movies and playing a game or two.

If you have any move or game suggestions for us, or are doing your own zombie stuff, let us know!

We continue to take the lazy road and highlight some of the amazing zombie cosplay available over at DeviantArt.com.

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This week is “Zombie Princesses” by Blasteh. Models are SnarkShot as zombie Cinderella, ThePancakeBlob as Esmerelda and RagemoreRoberts as Belle.

Who doesn’t like princesses?! Cute, lovable, sweet, blood-spattered, cannabilistic, undead princesses!

(Disclaimer: Images are used gratefully, but without permission. We will strive to meet any requirements of rights holders.)

Following up on our recent post, Cornell Tells us How Screwed we Are, the same team has made their simulation, Zombie Town, USA, available for everybody to play with.

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Just a day since an outbreak in New York City brings zombies to the U.S.A.

The tool, created by Alexander A. Alemi and Matthew Bierbaum (based on paper they wrote with Christopher R. Myers and James P. Sethna) allows you set a “Kill to Bite Ratio” and the time it would take a zombie to shamble one mile. You can then set a starting point and see a graphical view of how fast the zombie virus might spread.

Currently the tool seems rather simplistic, showing only a regular geographic progression. Variables like highways and other transportation arteries aren’t represented and would likely, we think, speed the infection even more between urban centers. However, taken as a best-case scenario of the worst case scenario the tool is still pretty damn mesmerizing.