{"id":5927,"date":"2008-11-26T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2008-11-26T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T20:52:10","slug":"you-know-what-other-creature-eats-beyond-the-point-of-satiation-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/you-know-what-other-creature-eats-beyond-the-point-of-satiation-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know What Other Creature Eats Beyond the Point of Satiation? Zombies."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5098870\/us-governments-zombie-solution-leads-to-disaster-comedy\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the-zombies-that-ate-the-world.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"the-zombies-that-ate-the-world\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the-zombies-that-ate-the-world.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/the-zombies-that-ate-the-world-495x300.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The urge to consume hits us all in one way or another. Some people may consider it bad taste to whisper the dread word &#8216;zombie&#8217; in the same breath as the word &#8216;Thanksgiving.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I am not &#8220;some people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trudge forward for more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve decided to join me. Good.<\/p>\n<p>First off, Spout Blog has a listing of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spout.com\/2008\/11\/25\/thanksgiving-movie-marathon-cannibal-movies\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"><strong>Thanksgiving Movie Marathon: 10 Cannibal Movies<\/strong><\/a> that some of you may find pleasure in digesting after you do foul things to that oven roasted feast in your homes.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/jesus_hates_zombies\/\" class=\"external external_icon\"><strong>Jesus Hates Zombies<\/strong><\/a>. Did you know that? He outright despises the bastards. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/jesus_hates_zombies\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Lincoln Hates Werewolves<\/a>.  How a man with the full weight of a small, copper coin and those hairy, ravenous beasts of moon-rage came to a head will never be known. That is, if you don&#8217;t buy the comics of the same name.<br \/>\n<strong>PREVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/jesus_hates_zombies\/comics.php?action=gallery&#038;comic_id=23007\" class=\"external external_icon\">Jesus Hates Zombies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/jesus_hates_zombies\/comics.php?action=read&#038;file_id=232290\" class=\"external external_icon\">Lincoln Hates Werewolves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To finish the course we have, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5098870\/us-governments-zombie-solution-leads-to-disaster-comedy\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Zombies That Ate the World<\/a>. Io9 describes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The comic book series &#8211; which gets released in the U.S. at the start of next year \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5098870\/us-governments-zombie-solution-leads-to-disaster-comedy\" class=\"external external_icon\">started life in France&#8217;s <em>Metal Hurlant<\/em>, despite being created by two Americans: Jerry Frissen and <em>BPRD<\/em>&#8216;s Guy Davis<\/a>. Set in the Los Angeles of 2064, the series highlights those Angelenos whose lives have been affected by a controversial new governmental policy that sees zombies reintegrated into everyday society and trying to peacefully co-exist with the living. Of course, things go wrong, but if you don&#8217;t want to take my word for it, why not check out this piece of test animation for a (since-scuttled) cartoon version of the story&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. Do check it out:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/swJNWWlT3iQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/swJNWWlT3iQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>Headshots don&#8217;t kill zombies?? Your mythology plays with fire, sirrahs.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=swJNWWlT3iQ\" class=\"external external_icon\">munchy you tube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspace.com\/jesus_hates_zombies\" class=\"external external_icon\">comics space<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spout.com\/2008\/11\/25\/thanksgiving-movie-marathon-cannibal-movies\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">spoutblog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5098870\/us-governments-zombie-solution-leads-to-disaster-comedy\" class=\"external external_icon\">Io9<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The urge to consume hits us all in one way or another. Some people may consider it bad taste to whisper the dread word &#8216;zombie&#8217; in the same breath as the word &#8216;Thanksgiving.&#8217; I am not &#8220;some people.&#8221; Trudge forward for more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48,56],"tags":[98,141,663,125,584],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-holiday","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-jesus","tag-thanksgiving-treats","tag-you-tube","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}