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Friday, February 22, 2008

ZOMBIE IDOL, ROUND TWO

UPDATE: VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE ZOMBIE IDOL FINAL, COMING TODAY!

The day has come, friends. The second round of Zombie Idol!

Your Celebrity Judges (one more time: Meg Cabot, John Green, Justine Larbalestier, E. Lockhart, and I) had a very, very hard time with this one. We read all night, debating the merits of this zombie and that zombie. We had to choose, but it was extremely difficult. THE ZOMBIES ARE GETTING BETTER.

In the end, each judge got a stack of zombies and had to choose one . . . so for every entry on this page, there is one Celebrity Judge standing behind it. I won’t say who picked what, but feel free to guess.

I predict some fierce voting.

But not another word! Let’s get right to it! It is time for YOU to vote.

Remember the roolz:

1. One vote per person, in the comments.
2. The voting closes in 24 hours. [CHANGE! The voting will be extended! You have today and Sunday as well. Continue voting!]
3. On Monday, the two finalist zombies will battle it out to be ZOMBIE IDOL!

The prize this round? The first OFFICIAL copy of Suite Scarlett. (Note: I don’t have this yet, but will soon. The winner of Round Two gets the first copy out of the box.)



The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
C.C.

In the light on the sun, a little zombie curled up beneath its hyperbaric slumber chamber he bought in a garage sale from another zombie.

One Sunday night, the moon came out and POP! Out of the chamber came a little and very hungry zombie.

He decided to look for some food.

On Monday he ate my older brother's brain. But he was still hungry.
On Tuesday he ate two annoying English teachers' brains. But he was still hungry.
On Wednesday he ate three extras from Shaun of the Dead brains. But he was still hungry.
On Thursday he ate four jellyfish- they don't have brains. But he was still hungry.
On Friday he ate five book banning parents' brains. But he was still hungry.
On Saturday he ate one piece of brainalicious cake, a left kidney, a sliver of liver, one eyeball, one small intestine, one appendix, one glutinous maximus, a mega sized brain flavoured chupa chup and a glass of stomach bile.

Then he got a stomachache.
So he ate another book banning parents' brain. He felt much better.

He then made a membranous cocoon and was inside for a couple of weeks. Then he made a hole and emerged as a very large, very hungry zombie with a strong preference for book banning brains.

The end.



A much better story for bedtime.



Eat, Pray, Love
H. Ryan

I wish Giovanni would eat me.

Oh, but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. To begin with, Giovanni is dead, and — like most Italian zombies in their twenties — he still lives with his mother. These facts alone make him an unlikely devourer of me, given that I am a living American woman in my mid-thirties, who has just come through a failed marriage and a devastating, interminable divorce, followed immediately by a passionate love affair that ended in having my heart ripped out, much like that scene in Indiana Jones. This loss upon loss has left me feeling sad and brittle and about seven thousand years old - nearly as old as Giovanni's mother. Purely as a matter of principle I wouldn't feed my sorry, busted-up old self to the rotted, undead Giovanni. Not to mention that I have finally arrived at that age where a woman starts to question whether the wisest way to get over the loss of one beautiful brown-eyed young corpse is indeed to promptly be eaten by another.



A Zombie Oprah pick!



“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein
Danielle

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
Would not take the corpses out!
She'd chase the humans and groan out loud,
Be evil and kill all the bodies in a crowd,
And though her daddy would scream and shout,
She simply would not take the corpses out.
And so they piled up to the ceilings:
Leaking kidneys, no more feelings,
The ghostly sounds of human screams
And chunks of spleen.
They filled the can, they covered the floor,
They cracked the windows and blocked the doors
With skin rinds and broken bones,
Drippy ends of pancreas all alone,
Noses, stomachs, livers,
Enough to make humans fearfully shiver,
Ribs and hips,
Soggy eyes and cracked wrists,
Crusts of larynx ,
Grisly bits of pharynx. . .
The corpses rolled on down the hall,
They raised the roof, they broke the walls.
Greasy skin, teeth crumbs,
Globs of bloody gums,
Nerves from spines,
Rubbery blubbery intestines,
Hands, caked and dry,
Crusts of eyes,
Old colons, dried up guts,
Yellow lumps of brains and butt.
Zombie mouths eating human meat,
Cold and rancid feet.
At last the corpses reached so high
That they finally touched the sky.
And all the zombies moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
"OK, I'll take the corpses out!"
But then, of course, it was too late. . .
The corpses reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the corpses she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But zombies, remember Sarah Stout
And always take the corpses out!




Always take your corpses out!


One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
H. Garry

One Zombie
Two Zombie
Gray Zombie
Blue Zombie.

Black Zombie
Headless Zombie
Decrepit Zombie
Fresh Zombie.

This one likes to cut and mar.
This one can lift up a car.
Say! What a lot
of Zombies there are.

Yes some are gray.
And some are blue
Some are Decrepit.
And Some are fresh.

Some are sad.
But most are glad.
And they’re all so very very bad.

Why are they
sad and glad and bad?
I don’t know,
go moan to your zombie dad.

Some are withering.
Some like to cuss.
The cussing one likes
to lick yellow puss.

From there to here,
from here to there,
they massacre people
everywhere.

Here are some
that like to munch
they munch for fun
on humans that crunch

Oh me! Oh my!
Oh me! Oh my!
What a lot
of crunchy humans go by.

Some have two eyes
a lot have four.
Some have six fingers
and a few have more.

Where do they come from? I can’t say.
Coffins and graveyards
from along the way.

We see them come.
We don’t live to see them go.
They march in menacing lines
and they’re very very slow.
Being a zombie
can make you kind of low.

None of them is like another.
Don’t ask them why.
They’ll eat your mother.

Say!
Look at those bodies!
One, two, three...
Three bodies hanging
from that tree.

One two, three, four,
five, six, seven,
all of these zombies
in zombie heaven!

Zombie heaven!
This is something new.
I wish I could go to that
oxymoronic place too!



Zombies can't count, but that's really for the best.



Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
P. Sims

Alice was beginning to get very tired of eating her sister's brains on
the bank, and of having no-one else to eat: once or twice she had
tried to eat the book her sister had been reading, but it had no meat
or gristle in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice
'without Brains?'

So she was considering eating her own mind (as well as she could, for
being a zombie made her feel very hungry and stupid), and considering
whether the pleasure of eating daisy-brains would be worth the trouble
of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit
with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it
so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh
dear! Oh dear! A Zombie!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it
occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the
time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a
shotgun out of its holster, and cocked it, and then hurried on, Alice
started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never
gnawed the head off of a rabbit, and burning with hunger for brains,
she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to
see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.



This drawing feels different now, doesn't it?


That's it! Put YOUR votes below! The clock is ticking! Gather the troops in support of YOUR FAVORITE ZOMBIE!

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120 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
H. Garry!! That is my vote!

10:58 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
H. Garry

11:09 PM  
Blogger eluper said...

I vote for the VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR!!! Classic!

11:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out!

11:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eat, Pray, Love!

11:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eat Brains, Pray, Love. (That book would have been much better if everyone was a zombie.)

11:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

11:41 PM  
Blogger Amee said...

My vote is for P. Sims and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You can't beat a rabbit with a gun.

11:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout is my vote!

11:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

eat, pray, love! most definitely!

12:07 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Zombie Alice is brilliant.

12:18 AM  
Blogger Nina said...

Eat, Pray, Love. That was
HILARIOUS!

12:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My vote goes to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--amazing.

12:35 AM  
Blogger Jennifer Lynn Barnes said...

I vote for Alice- hilarious, and the tone is just right. :)

12:40 AM  
Blogger Reese said...

THE VERY HUNGRY CATAPILLAR!!!!!!!!

12:42 AM  
Blogger Sandy said...

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

12:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

THE VERY HUNGRY CATAPILLAR PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12:52 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice!

12:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

DR. SEUSS! BECUASE IT WAS THE NASTIEST! WOOT WOOT!

1:13 AM  
Blogger Jessica Johannesen said...

The very hungry caterpillar!

1:23 AM  
Blogger Brooke Taylor said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out!

1:36 AM  
Blogger Rachael Ann Mare said...

Very Hungry Caterpillar, but kudos to One Fish Two Fish as well

1:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
best kids story ever it sould be published

1:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Holy bologna I got picked =0 I feel so honored.

But I vote for the hungry caterpillar! So awesome.

1:59 AM  
Blogger Leah said...

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!

2:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
H. Garry

2:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very Hungry CATERPILLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2:16 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out!

2:38 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

its so hard but i think alice in wonderland

2:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out!

2:52 AM  
Blogger Kristina said...

The Hungry Zombie(pillar?)

for its use of book banning brains and Shaun of the Dead

2:55 AM  
Blogger Hugh Ryan said...

I'm going to have to against self-interest and vote one fish, two fish. Brilliant :)

3:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!

3:09 AM  
Blogger Heather Harper said...

Eat, Pray, Love

(Wish I'd thought of it!)

3:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish XD

3:29 AM  
Blogger Me said...

They're all good! It's hard to pick just one. But... I choose Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out! (Clever, fun, and anything Shel Silverstein gets my vote.)

3:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

3:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

bla bla bla i forget would not take the garbage out!

3:56 AM  
Blogger o evil ears said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish


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4:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for sarah cynthia sylvia stout

4:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One fish two fish! red fish blue fish!

4:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i vote for hungry caterpillar

4:54 AM  
Blogger Shausto-la said...

hm, i think i have to vote for one fish two fish-er zombie. Fawesome!

5:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm going to have to go with The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

5:09 AM  
Blogger Erin said...

Oh man this is hard...I'm going to have to say Alice in Wonderland, though.

5:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ohhh, love these! Ah, so hard to choose, but I have to say The Very Hungry Catipillar. Still, I am so very jealous of all of your zombie writing talents!

5:58 AM  
Blogger Beth said...

One Fish, Two Fish!!!

6:32 AM  
Blogger mr spaceman said...

One zombie, two zombie!

6:50 AM  
Blogger Sarah said...

Gotta go with Alice in Wonderland- I support every lagomorph's right to bear arms against the undead.

7:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

it was pretty tight, but i think i would have to say zombie alice all the way :)

7:06 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My vote is for Sarah Stout Wouldn't Take the Garbage Out

7:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish! w00t!

7:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish!

It was a hard decision, but it had to be made.

8:16 AM  
Blogger Hannah Rose said...

Oh this is hard! (Made harder by the fact that I was too sick to submit something of my own, and now it's too late! *sigh*) But at the person above me says: A decision must be made! So I vote for...

“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein

(Adapted by Danielle)

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

And WHAT IS THE ANNOUNCMENT? I SIMPLY CANNOT WAIT SO LONG FOR SUITE SCARLETTE!

8:41 AM  
Blogger chelseyjane said...

very hungry caterpillar
:D

8:41 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmm...I'll vote for 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" since it was my favorite poem when I was little.

And what is the announcement? I want to know D=

9:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

One fish, Two fish!

10:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout!!!

10:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the very hungry caterpillar!!

(although they were all very good!)

10:29 AM  
Blogger Franny said...

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland!

11:24 AM  
Blogger Shannon Marie said...

oh my gosh, alice of course!

11:25 AM  
Blogger winterfish said...

My vote totally goes to Alice Braineater. The text also gives a different ring to "Who the f... is Alice":

"Sally called when she got the word,
She said: "I suppose you've heard -
About Alice".
Well I rushed to the window,
And I looked outside,
But I could hardly believe my eyes"

(insert zombie horror scene here)

:)

11:53 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice in Wonderland! Pure genius, without a doubt :)

12:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh dear, this is hard... My vote goes to...


Alice. It's the perfect twist on a sentimental favorite.

1:00 PM  
Blogger lightforms said...

“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein, winner to me! props to one fish two fish and the hungry catepiller, and all the rest. very nice selections!

3:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The very hungry caterpiller takes my vote. Props to everyone else though. They were nine kinds of amazing.

7:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eat, Pray, Love!

8:16 PM  
Blogger Ariel Zeitlin Cooke said...

Alice in Zombieland!

8:39 PM  
Blogger KT said...

the very hungry catipillar!

9:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hope its not to late to vote

SARAH STOUT!

9:19 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Alice in Wonderland, bunnies with buckshot!

9:42 PM  
Blogger Slade said...

Alice in Wonderland! Quite an elegant zombie in the midst of so many other children's story zombies.

10:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout MOST DEFINITELY!!!

11:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sylvia all the way! :)

11:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Man, that's a tough choice, but I've got to go with the Shel Silverstein -- he'd have loved it.

1:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice! Alice!

2:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
P. Sims

I smell a classic in the making.

3:36 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout

5:20 AM  
Blogger balexa said...

one fish two fish!!!!!!!!!!

5:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout. So awesome.

5:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout! OMG, yes!

8:29 AM  
Blogger Kate Schmidt said...

YES!! The Very Hungry Zombie!

8:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout!! Love it so much. Shel Silverstein is great.

9:55 AM  
Blogger Little Willow said...

Alice!

10:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd have to say Alice's Adventures in Wonderlands. It was a tough decision, but the rabbit with the gun definitely decided it for me.

12:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh my Gosh! I'm in this final?? I wrote the very hungry caterpillar one! Wow. I'm not worthy! Especially Compared to everyone else's.

So anyway I'm gonna go with Eat. Pray. Love.

1:55 PM  
Blogger JaneyV said...

My vote goes to:
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out” by Shel Silverstein
Danielle

This one was just the best written one although I do like the zombie who ate the book-banning parents a lot!

3:29 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

catipillar

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for the Very Hungry Caterpillar!

7:48 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Eat Brains - this is such a great pastiche of this execrable book

8:18 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

has to be the hungry caterpillar that was well funny!

9:14 PM  
Blogger Aislinn Ai said...

One fish two fis red fish blue fish!

9:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Stout Sarah Stout Sarah Stout

11:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My vote is for Alice in Wonderland! I loved it!

12:09 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice in Wonderland = hysterical!

1:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sarah cynthia sylvia stout would not take the corpses out for the win!

2:53 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I have to say One Fish, Two Fish,

3:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gotta go with "Alice in Wonderland". Though the rest are absolutely fantastic!

3:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Wouldn't take the Garbage out :D:D

3:54 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love them all so much......but I'm gonna have to go with Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

4:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!

4:46 AM  
Blogger Crazy8 said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout!

4:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the very hungry caterpillar takes it for me

5:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Alice in Wonderland!!

5:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out”

5:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out!

5:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout!

7:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Stout! I love Shel Silverstein! (Well, who doesn't?)

7:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I most definately vote for "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout"

7:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

dude, I am totally voting for "sarah cynthia sylvia stout"

8:15 AM  
Blogger ari :o) said...

ALICE AND WONDERLAND ALL THE WAY!!!

8:27 AM  
Blogger eve said...

It's a tough choice - but I vote for "Eat, Pray, Love" because that was awesome :p

1:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout!

7:21 PM  
Blogger Melissa said...

Sarah stout!

12:02 AM  
Blogger Heather said...

one fish two fish red fish blue fish!!!!

12:27 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

very hungry caterpillar!!!

it's the book banning brains that got me!

12:31 AM  
Blogger The Overgrown Hobbit said...

Alice in Zombie Land! That book would've been brill. with zombies in.

5:46 AM  
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