Talk by Naomi Wolf author of “The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot” given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus.

This coming Saturday, October 27, people from all walks of life will gather in 11 cities around the country in a national expression of the breadth and depth of antiwar sentiment in this nation. For many people, it will be their first step in transforming their antiwar feelings into antiwar action. Regional actions will enable much larger numbers of people to participate.
oct27.org
This is organized by United for Peace and Justice, they always do a good job. Please come out.

New York City details:
Rally at 12 noon
Assemble on Broadway, south of 23rd Street (Please use 23rd St. subway stations)
March at 1:00 p.m.
2 Minutes of Silence to Honor those who have died - 2:45 p.m.
Peace and Justice Fair in Foley Square (at the end of the march) - 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.

“DO NOT put any person in the washer.”

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

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 crack 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.