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Ah, another "rotting corpses sure do stink" joke. Is there any more dignified way for this blog to turn 2?
Yes, folks, today marks the two-year anniversary since the beginning of this blog. I'd like to thank absolutely anyone who has ever read this blog, especially those nice folks who took the time to leave comments. October 2011 has been the blog's best-ever in terms of traffic, and I hope you will continue checking in to Dead 2 Rights regularly for updates. This would be a great time to thank Chris Toohey, who originally set this blog up and has provided technical support along the way, and Scott Cole, who designed the gorgeous Dead 2 Rights logo.
Chris' site is right here!
And Scott's site is right here!
And, of course, we cannot forget Brother D and Miss Bren of the Mail Order Zombie podcast, without whom none of this would exist. MOZ is on hiatus for the rest of 2011, but I'm looking forward to contributing to the show when it relaunches in 2012.
And now, if you'll forgive me, I'd like to share a few of my favorite posts from the first two years of this blog:
ZOMBIE STUFF
- The difference between "living impaired" and "zombies."
- An exploration of the "grayface" phenomenon, i.e. people dressing up like zombies.
- The difference between the living impaired and hipsters.
- A defense of Barbara from Night of the Living Dead
- "Oh, Zomby Boy!" - a St. Patty's Day song
NON-ZOMBIE STUFF
- Kurt Vonnegut's unique take on death.
- The Beach Boys present an award at the 1976 Grammys.
- Was The Flintstones post-apocalyptic?
- An interview with Pumpkinhead!
- Wayne's Halloween Dictionary
- Ruminations on Charles Schulz and Peter Sellers
- Weird Al's debut album: A punk masterpiece?
- Beyond the Chipmunks: The secret music of David Seville
- Len Cella: The King of Anti-Comedy!
- The Beatles Anthology revisited, a decade later
- "He was a guitar player and now plays machine gun"
- A look back at TV's first post-apocalyptic sitcom (featuring Emily from the Deadly Dolls blog)!
If all this feels a tad self-indulgent, well, I put an absurd amount of time and effort into this nonsense so I want to get as much mileage out of this stuff as I possibly can. By the way, don't think that these are the only decent posts in two years. I've posted well over 400 various items to this blog, each one a gem of its own kind. Like that one about cartoon shows based on pop groups, for instance. Why I didn't get the Internet equivalent of a Pulitzer for that, I'll never know.
Mourn me til you join me!
Wayne Kotke,
President, Spokesman, and Founder of Dead 2 Rights