Top 20 Zombie flicks of all time — now you have no excuse whatsoever for not preparing for when the zombies come. (retroCRUSH)
They don’t call it the “Discovery Channel” for nothing. (QuizLaw)
The nutjobs are coming out of the woodwork to defend that whole “the world might not be round” mix-up from The View earlier this week. And just what the hell did “science” ever do to them, anyway? (Liberal Avenger)
Finally — free music to get your hump on with! (YesButNoButYes)
Wow. WOW. If this is true, this could make for the best episode of “To Catch a Predator” evvvvver! (Crazy Days and Nights)
Don’t underestimate the raw killing power of tiny girls like Hayden and myself. (Yeeeah!)
Today in “tampon news” — so apparently there is some new tampon being developed that cuts the risk of toxic shock syndrome, but what really piqued my interest was the link to something called “The Keeper” at the end of the article. Hell no I ain’t puttin’ that in my vajayjay! (Feministing)
Can you spot which one is Christina Ricci? (cityrag)
The marketing campaign behind Good Luck Chuck thinks they can just wave their magic wand and turn a somewhat offensive, unfunny movie into a just plain unfunny movie. (Slowly Going Bald)
If Michael Stipe wasn’t still alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave for this one — after the jump!
28 Days Later should be number one. Number one I say!
Posted by: Kevin Longrie at September 20, 2007 3:59 PM
So we're supposed to plunge the menstruation right out of us, like unclogging a toilet? Yeah, that's gonna sell.
Posted by: katy at September 20, 2007 4:41 PM
So we're supposed to plunge the menstruation right out of us...
This made me laugh so hard. I still have a big stupid grin on my face as I type this.
Posted by: litelysalted at September 20, 2007 4:53 PM
28 Days Later is not technically a zombie film, but that's nitpicking.
What's NOT nitpicking is the glaring omission of Army of Darkness and Cemetery Man, and the inclusion of Plan 9. Just because it's a MSTK hit does not make it worthy of a best of list.
God, I'm such a dork.
I'm pretending I never read that tampon thing. LA LA LA LA LA!!!
love the video, but had to turn it off because the kiddos just got too curious. I definitely don't need them spouting off any new words in front of papa.
Also, plunging my uterus? Laughing my ass off right now...
Posted by: wozzle at September 20, 2007 5:15 PM
Don't be fooled: The Keeper (and the Diva Cup) is disturbingly popular. I do a lot of DIY shit and I see women talking about it on those forums all over the internet. Many are freakishly devoted to this thing, especially those who like to think they are doing something green. It still squicks me out.
Posted by: Squarah at September 20, 2007 6:28 PM
gawd, i'm glad i hit menopause early! sorry, TMI?
i remember my brother making me watch NOTLD when i was a kid.
freaked me out.
of course i've been a zombie freak ever since. mr. bunny's fave is "return of the living dead 2". "BRAAAAAAIIINNSS". no accounting for taste!
Posted by: bionic bunny at September 20, 2007 7:27 PM
It's not a plunger, you silly uninformed rabble. It's a cup and you empty it regularly and in so doing saving yourselves a toxic shock reaction and space in the landfill and/or sewers.
Why do I know this as a man? I just do.
Posted by: me at September 20, 2007 7:33 PM
Just read the comments on Feministing if you want to see disturbing devotion to the Keeper. I'll stick to tampons even if it makes me an environmentally destructive woman who hates her own body.
Posted by: Priya at September 20, 2007 8:13 PM
Re The Keeper: I can't deny the skeeve factor, but I find it simply delightful that it bears the name of the goalie in soccer/European futbol.
If Michael Stipe wasn't still alive, he'd be rolling over in his grave for this one
Actually, I think he'd love it; not to go fan-boy or anything, because Michael Stipe can be a bit twee and pretentious, but he seems to have a gentle and curious sense of humor, as well as a potty mouth, so I think he'd enjoy that.
Kevin, you are correct, sir! 28 Days Later should be number 1. And who cares if they're not "real" zombies? I mean, WTF? The "vampires" in I Am Legend aren't traditional vampyres either. It still fucking rocks, in fact all the more so for the clever scientific twist on premise -- just like 28DL.
TK, agree on Army of Darkness, disagree on Cemetery Man, despite being a Rupert Everett fan; I tried it a couple times and just can't get into it.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 20, 2007 8:36 PM
TK, tell me you did NOT go there. :)
28 Days Later makes deliberate visual references to the Romero and other zombie films (e.g. the black zombie soldier chained by the neck in the Manchester bunker by the other soldiers, as an experimental subject = straight out of Day of the Dead).
It may not be "technically" a zombie film, but it is a zombie film thematically, referentially, influencially, stylistically, narratively, etc etc. It's a zombie film--one of the best in recent memory. No amount of "but they're not technically undead" will ever convince me otherwise. There are also zombie-film precendents wherein only half the featured zombies are actually undead/the other half alive but infected--plague has always been present in the genre.
Sorry--y'all cracked at my hobby-horse, and he's a-lurching!
PS, since I'm already being insufferable: the retroCrush guys haven't seen as many zombie flicks as they think they've seen, or Grau's "Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue" aka "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" would have been on that list. That one is super-nummy.
yo - I use a Divacup, and it's actually less messy than tampons and more comfortable, in my opinion. Another plus is you never have to think about your contribution to the workforce of people who spend their days picking up overflowing bags of period waste. Not to mention it saves a ton of money.
Posted by: thelastpolarbear at September 20, 2007 9:53 PM
Jesus, people. I said I was nitpicking. No need to nitpick my nitpicking. Let's not get all atwitter.
seriously: the keeper/diva cup is the way to go. (until just now, i never knew i was one of those rabid devotees...i'm not foaming at the mouth or anything, but i just realised i'd corner someone at a party to extol its many virtues...)
Posted by: cait at September 20, 2007 10:29 PM
I think it's shameful that Day of the Dead is only #16 on that list. What the hell? I'd venture to say it's the best of Romero's Dead series, but that would probably get my head bitten off. I love Dawn of the Dead, but I really think Day is better!
Posted by: Lannie at September 20, 2007 10:35 PM
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what's more disgusting: a cotton/rayon tampon in my vagina, breeding bacteria- or a silicone (DivaCup) cup that hardly leaks, doesn't smell, and doesn't give me infections... hmm, but I'm going to go with option B. I don't know why people are grossed out more by the cup than they are by tampons and pads- maybe because the cup involves actually knowing your own anatomy and (sometimes) coming in contact with blood. I use the cup because I like my vagina and want it to stay healthy- and since using it, I have shorter, less painful, and generally more enjoyable periods.
Posted by: lfrac at September 20, 2007 11:12 PM
My Mooncup?
Would not go back to tampons if you offered me the world.
Riskless, reusable, and entirely eliminated my cramping. It's tragic so many women are too squeamish about their own biology (thank you, societal conditioning!) to even consider trying 'em.
Posted by: the hel at September 21, 2007 3:49 AM
Really? We're talking about menstruation in a Pajiba love thread?
There's wrong and then there's this. Wrong with a capital R. Ick. I know, I really should have got over the whole "eeeeeeewwww gross!" reaction at thirteen but I never have.
Ugh.
Posted by: Alex the Odd at September 21, 2007 4:54 AM
Oh no! Normal bodily function! Vaginas- eeeew!
Posted by: lfrac at September 21, 2007 7:27 AM
Wait, we're saying 'vampyres' now? Is this anything like that 'magick' stuff? Why do I never get the memo?
Posted by: twig at September 21, 2007 9:09 AM
Possibly because the memo was written by a fourteen-year old goth and is largely illegible due to being soaked in anguished tears. Don't worry twig, I didn't get it either.
Oh, and I'm allowed to be grossed out.
Posted by: Alex the Odd at September 21, 2007 9:17 AM
Another bonus of using the cups instead of 'pons? Some of them bounce off of the walls like a superball. They also make good hats for kitties (no pun intended) and you could probably easily get someone to touch one and then freak them out after by telling them what it actually is.
Posted by: Dangle McGee at September 21, 2007 9:53 AM
I love my keeper! It's easy to use, reusable, blah blah blah but more than that, it's a lot easier to keep track of everything and monitor your cycle when you actually have some indication of how much you're bleeding. I think tampons and pads are grosser - I can boil my keeper and it's a lot less porous than some cotton thing just sitting there moistly.
Did I just use the word 'moistly'?!
Ack. Sorry. Anyway, I'd encourage women to try it - I'll never go back to tampons, and am more or less pad-free these days, too. Life is good for the Kiku.
Posted by: Kiku at September 21, 2007 9:58 AM
Well, this post has become one of my personal hells.
Thanks for that.
Although... Dangle McGee? "They also make good hats for kitties (no pun intended)" THAT was fucking funny, intended or not.
Criminy, the irony: I intentionally used both spellings to highlight that departing from tradition makes the genres richer.
because the memo was written by a fourteen-year old goth
Ouch, Alex. Ouch. The "anguished tears" only flowed after I read that.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 21, 2007 10:37 AM
I can't help it socalled, I calls 'em as I sees 'em. (Although I'm not actually a whale biologist)
Posted by: Alex the Odd at September 21, 2007 10:50 AM
But shouldn't you all be worried about the poor people on the factory lines making your cups for pennies an hour (most likely in China)? If you really are all about being socially concious and want to be in a position to mock other people's discomfort with certain bodily fluids, you should make your own "rags" out of organic recycled materials. I can send you a link to a pattern.
Posted by: pinkcheese at September 21, 2007 10:53 AM
ATO: But that's why I used italics and quotation m-- [*realizes how far off map he is*]
Never mind; but you should have at least said "forty-year-old sloth" for accuracy.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 21, 2007 10:55 AM
pink (eat it, ATO): Wouldn't the best solution be a combination of those solutions? Make your own Keeper by recycling styrofoam and bubble wrap found behind Costco. Then, when you walk (or skip, since you're on your period), you'll be recycling hard-to-recycle materials, accomplishing the essential function, AND creating your own special soundtrack.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 21, 2007 11:01 AM
You know, socalled, you might be on to something. Personally, I'm one of those evil fillers of garbage dumps, but I might have to give up my anti-environment ways just to try that out. (It was the personal soundtrack that did it.)
Posted by: pinkcheese at September 21, 2007 11:06 AM
Please LS, please never, ever link to another article about feminine hygiene products again. After having a recent discussion of the many reasons we choose to keep returning to this site, hearing about people's personal preferences for catching their menstrual blood is not one of the things that keeps me coming back. Ladies, keep it to Feministing where people give a shit, ok?
And the plunger comparison...it was a joke. Get it? Gives new meaning to the term "female plumbing". Wokka, wokka, wokka!
Posted by: katy at September 21, 2007 12:10 PM
I certainly have opened up quite the can of menstruation, uh, I mean worms. But it's all worth it to send TK to his personal hell.
And on a final note -- can I just get spayed? Like a dog?
Posted by: litelysalted at September 21, 2007 12:57 PM
Tk - I am so with you on Cemetary Man - how could they leave that out? There's a flying zombie head for crist's sake. And socalledonlycousins ....I...I have no words... how can you not love this movie? Rupert Everett as an existentially troubled zombie-killing cemetary keeper/serial killer...it's his greatest role.
Posted by: s. pisaster at September 21, 2007 1:35 PM
What I find so odd is that people get so freaked out by the diva cup and the keeper. I actually wasn't thinking about the environment when I got mine. And YES I can totally skip down the street with it in (now... who wants to do that with a pad full of mentrual crap? not me)! Anyway, I hope that made someone squirm, it's amusing how squeemish people are.
Posted by: IamKateness at September 21, 2007 1:45 PM
It's funny how it is totally acceptable to talk about male anatomy and make penis jokes anywhere, but talk about vaginas and anything that characterizes them as something that does not exist only for male pleasure and people freak out. Misogyny anyone?
Posted by: marcyfight at September 21, 2007 2:50 PM
I'm thirding the "Cemetary Man" love here. I saw it once years ago on laaaaate night cable, and actually got the chance to tell Rupert Everett that I loved it. Freakishly tall and handsome in person. Gah.
Oh, and the whole menstruation thing...I'm not squeamish about my own body (or about much else, actually, and being a bio major will do that to you), but given my bad klutzy history, I'd just be afraid of getting it stuck up there. Seriously. I still get rings stuck on my fingers sometimes. I don't think I can use butter to help me in every instance.
Posted by: em at September 21, 2007 2:57 PM
Actually, my problem is with blood. Any kind of blood, from any part of the body. I tend to get very wobbly when getting it drawn, seeing it it its liquid state makes me want to pass out.
Of course, I also don't see why people have to make such a big, mocking deal about other people's squimishness about things; in spite of the fancy "liberating" reasoning, it often seems to just come down to being mean for the sake of discomfiting others. I mean, seriously, I wouldn't mess with other people's phobias in the name of "liberation."
Posted by: pinkcheese at September 21, 2007 2:58 PM
lightlysalted: I highly recommend "spaying". Screw the tampon/cup debate. Evict that useless uterus and get on with life. Hysterectomy is the way to GO!
Uterus free since 2003
(now THAT'S TMI!)
Posted by: MadameUgly at September 21, 2007 3:08 PM
talk about vaginas and anything that characterizes them as something that does not exist only for male pleasure and people freak out. Misogyny anyone?
Let me go on record here: I will discuss vaginas -- and naked women generally -- until the cows come home. My sexual pleasure need not be mentioned in the conversation.
s. pisaster: Classic case, I'm sure it's happened to you too with some film you were sure would be the best ever -- I wanted to love it, I already loved Rupert, and then it just didn't happen. "Anticipation reflux"?
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 21, 2007 3:11 PM
I don't think I can use butter to help me in every instance.
*snork* excellent.
Posted by: twig at September 21, 2007 3:17 PM
Where's the review for Good Luck Chuck? I know everyone is trying to plan their weekends, so we need to know whether it's a must-see for tonight or if it can wait until a matinee tomorrow or Sunday.
Posted by: socalledonlycousins at September 21, 2007 3:21 PM
Oh, goodie. We're playing the misogyny game again. How. Fucking. Fun.
Do me a favor. Go, get a dictionary, and look the word "misogyny" up. And then think about what you wrote, and what people wrote.
Oh great, you linked to the Feministing thread in which I got into a furious hair-pulling row with a rabid Keeper fan.
To clarify:
I prefer tampons for reasons too varied to go into here.
I have tried the Keeper, and it is not for me.
If other women prefer it, bully for them. I do not judge other women by their choices in feminine hygiene, of all the damn things.
And as long as you aren't leaving your tampon in for like 12+ hours, the risks of TSS are EXTREMELY low.
Mysogyny or tact? How on earth can that line be blured? But I guess since we're all a bunch of liberated women now we can talk like the lowest common denominator of men. Yay freedom!
28 Days Later should be number one. Number one I say!