Written by a Lawyer
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
“DO NOT put any person in the washer.”
Zombiecon NYC
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Some zombies are casual about their commitment to zombiedom, others like this zombie mom go whole hog, doling out the fake blood to her semi-willing spawn like cherry cough syrup.
Son of Zombie Mom.
Reporter from the NY Post, on the left, gets into the spirit.
No eyes for me.
Fully committed to the cause.
Drip, drip.
Bloomingdales.
Fifth Avenue shopping spree.
Zombie Good Book in front of St. Pats.
Zombie smoke took some hearty squirts of by beet juice blood to her face. What a committed zombie.
Zombie party
Zombie Desert Storm
More of my Zombiecon photos on Flickr
Zombie Makeup
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Manhattan Zombie Alert today!
A test of some zombie makeup. It’s all natural: boiled mochi rice flour and green clay, with streaks of burnt cork for that Bar-BQ taste.
It washed out nicely with warm water, Dr Bronner’s and a scrub cloth, leaving the skin refreshed and my pores clean.
Update 10/21:
Here’s the disgusting effect in use, yesterday. The red is beet juice mixed with boiled sweet rice flour. I streaked burnt cork directly on my skin before applying the rice and clay goop.
Photo credit: unknown zombie
All Natural Zombie Makeup Recipe:
Mix 1/2 cup of mochi rice flour, with 1 cup of cold water, eliminate any lumps with a fork. Slowly pour into 2 cups of boiling water. Stir constantly for about 2 minutes over a low flame. This is easiest if you have two people, but can be done by one with dexterity. Take it off the flame and stir occasionally until it is cool.
Be careful, keep the pot on low flame, this starchy pudding will bubble like lava and burn you badly if your hand is too close to the surface. It is hotter than boiling water, and sticks to your skin. Use a long wooden spoon, kitchen gloves, long sleeves, safety glasses, lab aprons, or bio-hazard suit, whatever your adult supervisor thinks prudent.
You can mix this half and half with beet juice to make thick sticky edible blood. The beet pulp also mixed half and half, made a fine sticky scabby looking mess for applying around fake wounds. Beet juice will stain your clothes, but it hasn’t left a stain on my skin yet.
Mix in about 4 to 6 tablespoons of green facial clay with about 1 cup of the pudding for the basic zombie skin. This will stick very firmly and shrinks as it dries. wrinkling your skin hideously in the process. Then slowly, bit by bit it cracks and falls off, leaving you probably unwelcome on a friend’s couch without a prior shower.
You could probably substitute high-gluten wheat flour, corn starch, or even any old flour in your kitchen for the mochi rice flour, probably with the same proportions. But that is your experiment. The result should be sticky, smooth and translucent. It’s a starch pudding without the added sugar.
Everything did wash off, with scrubbing. The rice gluten in my hair required two showers. The burnt cork around my eyes gave me the hardest time, considering I had to use soap to rid myself of the raccoon eyes.
Otterness Frog
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Newly installed at the Anna Silver School, Houston and Essex Streets.
gammablog.com/index.php?s=Otterness
Update Nov 1:
They put up a plaque.
9/11 Memorial – Union Square Subway
Friday, October 19th, 2007
What looks like an unofficial memorial, listing the names of those killed at the World Trade Center, printed labels adhered to the tiles. From the state of discoloration and deterioration of the labels, I suspect that these have been here for several years.
Bedbug on the Sidewalk
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Suport Dodd’s Hold on the Fisa Bill
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Without the record provided by a warrant, what is to prevent the president from using his powers to spy on political enemies?
Today Senator Dodd will send a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid informing him that he will be placing a hold on FISA legislation that includes amnesty for telecommunications companies who enabled the President’s assault on the Constitution by providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization.
Take action and add your name to the list of people who don’t want the Senate to provide telecom companies with amnesty for violating Americans’ civil liberties. Visit chrisdodd.com/fisa to stand with Chris Dodd today.
Haircut Cream Shave
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Barber Shop on First Avenue in the East Village.
