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I am so excited. Toronto Zombiewalk 2012 is only a week away! AHHHH!

Wa Lolita

An exceptionally rare style spotting for you today... as zombies go, that is. This lady with the whimsical Watchmen-flavored balloon is wearing a subgenre of lolita sometimes known as wa lolita, or wa-loli for short. Wa lolita updates traditional Japanese clothing with elements of lolita style such as petticoats.

Occupational Hazards

True Canadian content, right there.

Thank you for flying with PanAm...

Pimp my Z-Ride

Caged and ready to rumble. Mojave Desert, 2011

I belong to an online zombie preparedness group which takes a few things very seriously: 

1. The best weapons, armaments or means of dispatch of zombies in the event of a, well, Event;

2. The best and most defensible location in which to weather such an Event, and,

3. The best ride. 

There are a great many arguments posted for every ideal "dream vehicle for the Zombie Apocalypse": bicycles are silent, motorcycles are fast, tanks are impervious, Bowler Wild Cats are agile, Marauders are unstoppable, etc... All blue skying aside, I would posit that the best argument for any given vehicle is that it is already in use, and therefore should be somewhat more practical, functional, relatively economical in terms of gas (or else it wouldn't be in use), and hopefully better maintained than the ten-ton bespoke monsters that serve as wish-fulfillment for preppers.

Here are a few shots of candidates for the ideal post-apocalyptic ride. All of these are actual vehicles that I have personally spotted in the wild. If you had to pick one, which would you have?

Bob's off-road cop car - Mojave, CA

The welcome wagon at Wasteland Weekend 2011.

Party car at WW2011. Looks like a late 60-early 70s era El Camino. Pros: cargo space.

Don't even think about jacking these wheels...

MFP Interceptor... the last of the red hot V8s. We can dream, right?

Shannon Larratt's Zombie-ready ride. Toronto, 2011

 

Contol unit. Oopsie. Streets of TO, 2011.

Rat buggy... not a lot of protection, but loaded for bear.

A Knight XV by Conquest Vehicles, spotted in the wilds of Yorkville.
Per Conquest, this is the world's most luxurious armored car. Buy Canadian!

 

Even zombies respect a classic Cadillac. Toronto, 2010

As tempting as the Knight XV is, a vehicle that can clip walkers off at the knees is perfect for me.
I'd love this baby forever. Oshawa, 2010.

New Breed

Clearly some hybrid action going on here. Back away slowly...

Zweatin to the Oldies

When the zombies are working out too, you know it's time to bump up your cardio regime...

Another Zombie Tattoo

Since I'm branching off from straight up street fashion for the sake of content... have another zombie tattoo. This image of MC Chris as a zombie was tattooed by myself on Spott the Loonie a couple years back.

I'll be on the lookout for more zombie tattoos "in the wild" in coming months.

Fokken Zef

The single greatest style I saw at Anime North this year. A newspaper kigurumi suit; the essence of Zef.

If you don't know what this is, please take a moment to watch some Die Antwoord videos including this and this. Come back when your brain is good and broken and we'll go again.

Dead Friends.

"After the year 2000, the only people who'll be safe to have as friends are dead people."
-Hunter S. Thompson, March 1998. From Kingdom of Fear.

Meet Spott The Loonie & his wife Amynal. I feel safe...

He'p me Zombie Jesus

Since zombie street fashion gets a bit slow this time of year, I've decided to branch out into a few related subjects that I have content for. Zombie tattoos appear on the new menu-- since tattooing and body modification has been near and dear to my heart (literally) since, oh, 1992. First off, here's a look at one of the finest tattoos I've ever had the pleasure to see done, first-hand.

This "Zombie Jesus" piece is by Adam Turk, who currently works out of Left Hand Black Tattoo in San Diego, CA (www.lhblk.com). The proud owner is Venus Silva. She asked Turk for a zombie jesus tattoo and this beauty is what he came up with. It was finished literally five minutes before it went on stage and won a "Best of Day" award at the Montreal Art Tattoo convention in 2008.

Gorygeous. Now that's a work of art.

All in good taste...

There will never be a better place or time for "finger licking good" jokes.

Ronald McZombie.

"Do you want brains with that?"

Best of: Zombies in uniform

Men and women alike can't go wrong with a classic military-style jacket... a must for every wardrobe, living or dead.

Family Style

In honor of Family Day, I present you with images of families enjoying a day out in style.

Slaughterhouse Ink

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five.

Little biter

Start em young, we always say. The same applies to good sense in dress. Messy eating habits aside, in this case pilot and co-pilot have clearly got it figured out.

Prepared

Duncan shows off his survivor style. Some of us are more prepared than others...

Wasteland Weekend 2011

The coolest thing I did this year.

Sometime in winter 2010 I spotted a video piece about a relatively new event called Wasteland Weekend, held annually in the Mojave Desert. It was something to consider. I'd always wanted to go to Burning Man, however my allergy to naked people and not showering keeps getting the better of me... And then there's my favorite movie of all time, which just happens to be...

That's right. I'll fucking say it: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. An original version of the above poster has hung on my wall more than twenty years now. I've probably seen it fifty times or more, and I never get tired of it. (Don't get me wrong. I love me some Road Warrior. But Thunderdome has everything I want to see in the post-apocalypse, excepting possibly the classic Hewlett & Martin version of Tank Girl.) Thunderdome is a fixture in my childhood and so masked into my mental landscape that I'd feel about as comfortable walking around in it as in my living room.

So I had the feeling I'd really be missing something if I didn't go to Wasteland. I planned the trip and went. And once I got my temperate Canadian ass over the crushing amount of heat and exposure involved (took about a day)... the event was awesome.

Seriously. I go to a lot of conventions... but none of them have ever been able to pull off this kind of full environmental immersion, costumes mandatory, adults-only chaos. (Or made me sign a waiver that said "YOU CAN DIE.")

It's easier to illustrate with photos, so here are a few choice pics. (Want to see more? You can find the full set on flickr here. There are also very active forums on the main site and a Facebook page for keeping up with plans for 2012 as they develop.) If you can get yourself to the area of California City, CA in September 2012, and can handle the heat... I highly recommend it.

Elite Guard Captain (Michael Robinson) atop the gates.

Cars, cars, cars... Max Max V8 Interceptors, MFPs, and a VW Beetle in MFP colors.

All hail Lord Humungus (Jim "The Tank" Dorsey)

Rachel

Armor and weapons very cautiously made out of signs.

Brucifer

Touch the Cabbage Patch. Touch it, feel it.

While crossing the encampment, I ran into two ladies taking their mutant for a walk.

Ulfblood Berzerk from the Cannibal tribe.
A great trader, but do not accept his dinner invitations!

Sierra, the Outlaw.

Heavy metal, but he rocked it for hours.

During a Thunderdome match, things go a little berserk...