Huffington Post Zombie edition
Perhaps one of the more elaborate Halloween-themed media distractions you’ll see today: The Huffington Post turned its culture section into a special zombie edition.
Your first clue is the blood seeping from the top-of-the-page navigation bar, no matter where you are on the site:
Your second clue that something is amiss: The headline and lead photo on the zombie page itself:
Oh, and the eyeball in the word “zombies.” As you watch it, it sort of watches back.
The scope of the project is rather stunning. Some websites create special April Fool’s pages, but most of the links you’ll find there lead to dummy pages or back to the home page. Nearly every link on the HuffPo’s zombie edition is live.
Um, so to speak.
Included are stories about zombie Bill O’Reilly blasting a zombie Keith Olbermann, an embarrassing incident in which Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston’s brains slipped into sight of zombie paparazzi and an endorsement for zombie President: Herman Brains, of course.
The guest bloggers, too, are a scream. Literally. Zombie Lrrraarar guest-blogged today a piece called — oddly enough — “BRRAAAAIIIINSSSSSSSSSSSSS.”
Or try Grararammmm’s post, “Zombie is Not a Choice.”
Humans, zombie here. Listen. You long time hurt us and we not take any longer. Why you wack ours brains, but we can’t be eating yours brains? This tell zombie you think human brains better than zombie brains.
Well, you is right. Human brain is soooo delicious.
And it’s not just a handful of posts and stories. The Huffington Post crowd even created dummy Twitter accounts for its dummy zombie correspondents.
“Mrrrmm breakfast brains wrap like burrrrrito,” tweets Grararammmm. “So good to eat brain burrrrrito with blood shake. Just blend with guts to give more texture.”
There is no word yet on whether Huffington paid its zombies to blog and tweet today. Or if they worked their brains out for nothing.