Most of us that have suffered through a wedding (which one suffers, of course, so that they can enjoy a marriage) know that on the whole there’s a lot of moaning and shambling involved.  Most of the former during the planning and most of the latter after the reception if things are done right, but moaning and shambling are generally in good supply.

Jennifer Jones and Rob Blackmore, of Liverpool in the UK, took this to the extreme.  After winning a Facebook contest sponsored by the new game Dead Island Riptide the couple had their dream wedding: Caribbean Zombie Love.  The principles, the band and all 250 guests were given professional zombie makeovers.  They converged on an appropriately themed location and, it seems, had a hell of good time!

We wish Jennifer and Rob all the best and can’t wait to see them spawn some creepy-crawlies of their own!

Cracked.com, in its traditional numerical style, gives us “Four Ways Horse Meat Proves a Zombie Apocalypse Can Happen“.  It’s a short article that will, depending on your disposition, either give you a smile for a few minutes or send you into a tailspin of paranoia as you attempt to link the Burger King to the Illuminati.

Today, March 30th, is International Tabletop Day!

It’s an easy day to observe: just get together with people you like (or people you might like) and play some games.  Old-fashioned cardboard and plastic, look-each-other-in-the-eye games.  Here are few of our favorite zombie games to get your started:

Zombie Dice: Super simple, super fast game perfect for families.  Even grandmas love this one.

Last Night on Earth: Based on classic zombie movies this game of heroes v. zombies is perfect for a dedicated game night.

Zombie Fluxx: Fluxx is a frantic card game of constantly changing rules and the zombie version has… zombies!

Munchkin Zombies: Munchkin is all the best things about role-playing games without all the fuss.  The Zombie version includes the same hilariously weird sense of humor but adds rotten flesh.

There are dozens of zombie games out there and hundreds more great games that suffer only from their lack of zombies.  Find a few, gather your friends and have some fun!

The Telegraph, like all good mainstream news sources, is taking good science and sensationalizing it beyond any sense of propriety.  The article, There are Zombies Among Us (complete with a photo of the walking dead), reviews several well-known behavior-altering parasites in nature then finally gets into the rotten meat of it and tells us how these parasites will create an unstoppable army of the risen dead!

Well, no it doesn’t.  Because they won’t.  Dammit.  But it’s still pretty cool.  Here’s a snippet:

Do any other microbes provoke similar changes? The leading candidate so far is one of the most common in the world – influenza. Researchers at Binghamton University in New York State, using the ’flu vaccine as a proxy for infection, recorded the behaviour of 36 academic staff two days before, and two days after, getting a jab.

The result was astonishing. Before the vaccination, according to the journal Annals of Epidemiology, they interacted with an average of 54 people a day; afterwards it shot up to 101. Yet the amount of time they actually spent with each person plummeted – from 33 to 2.5 minutes. “Subjects who normally   had very limited or simple social lives,” said one researcher, “were   suddenly deciding they needed to go out to bars or parties” – the perfect places for a virus to find new hosts.

So while we’ll probably still need mad scientists, aliens or toxic waste to get the really good zombies we can leave the really lame ones to the flu.

We have a simple rule here at MoreBrains: “If it wouldn’t matter when you’re huddled together in the corner of a tool shed gripping a bloody crowbar and hoping that the newly risen dead don’t hear you then it’s probably not worth getting too excited over.”  In that situation it just doesn’t matter if the guy holding the chainsaw is married to the guy frantically constructing Molotov cocktails.  You’d have bigger problems then and we have bigger problems now.

If you can find love in this crazy, mixed-up world before you’re disemboweled and torn to pieces by formerly-living neighbors then we say follow your bliss: marry whom you like.  Remember that matching Katanas make excellent wedding gifts!

Visit the Human Rights Campaign for more information or contact your representative to make your opinion heard.

A friend of ours (thanks, Tera!) brought this to our attention.  It’s from last year but it was new to us and just to good not to share.

This is cake by Elizabeth Marek of the Artisan Cake Company (there are plenty more pictures at the link).  Elizabeth says of her creation:

The “cake” is for display so it’s actually made from Rice Krispy Treats (RKT). The skin is modeling chocolate and the eye and shirt is fondant. I made the eye by painting it with food coloring.  The brain is made from a jell-o mold I got from the Halloween Store. It worked really well and turned out perfectly. I was nervous because I have never made a Jell-o brain before but it was super easy and tasted AMAZING let me tell you!

All we can say is DO WANT!