Vent Your Atomic Road Rage With Mad Max Reenactments

Spencer sent us this article about Road Warrior re-enactors in the Western US.

Says organizer Karol Bartoszynski:

Basically the media assumed we had "fake machine guns" and looked like we were "attacking" the tanker truck. All we had was [what you can see] in the pics: Roadwarrior-type thing in the truck, a fake crossbow, a pick-axe. People thought the 4-barrel fake gun was a rocket launcher... and we were some kind of militia or terrorists. Most of us spent overnight in jail.
After the post-atomic berzerkers were picked up, the cops realized their weapons were fake, but one cop still decided to bust them for highway obstruction -- even though they had a video proving they drove safely. The charges were thrown out half a year later.

Vehicles usually also include a red pick-up truck, with a snake painted on its side and a gun-wielding maniac riding shotgun. People dress as Wez, with the trademark red mohawk, and as random Bartertown guards. Sometimes there's even a gyrocopter flying above the whole mess.

Thanks Spencer. Link

& Teller - Teller (Of Penn &) Survives Zombie Apocalypse

Teller barricades himself in his home after TSHTF, and entertains, and shoots zombies that come near his Las Vegas home.

Link Stolen from Boing Boing.

Thundarr Fights Statue Of Liberty. Harbor Chick Goes Down.

Derek emailed me earlier, reminding me about the first episode of Thundarr The Barbarian, where Thundarr, Ookla the Mok, and teh totally fine Princess Ariel (I've said it before, if she can cross country on a horse bareback, she could pop your head like a zit with those thighs), fight against a sorcerer that uses an animated Statue of Liberty to do his bidding. Shoulda used the Super-Science.

Doomsday

Ok, ok. I know what you're thinking, but wait... give me a chance to sell it to you:

One: It's got some pretty nice vehicle action going on. I'm talking about the Sisu XA-185 and the scrap-rods, not the Bentley. How the hell did they get Bentley product placement in a Post-Apocalyptic movie, anyway? Who exactly is the demographic that they're after here? The Humungus? "Just walk away... from your idea of automobile luxury".

Two: It's freaking "Escape From Scotland"! Look closely at the map of the infected zone, it's Scotland. All of it! Although, I could understand all of the actors' English in the preview. They really missed their chance to go all Trainspotting cannibals with this. To say nothing of "The Duke of Edinburgh". A noomber 1!

Three: Malcolm Motherfucking McDowell. Can you even make a movie like this without him in it? I bet he just showed up and started acting in it. No one invited him or anything, they just let him be in it because he was already there on the set stealing craft service doughnuts and living in the prop room. This alone is worth the price of admission to me.

Bottom line, It's gonna suck. But, man is it gonna be a good kind of suck.

The Ten Best Post-Apocalyptic Survival Vehicles

There are some very bad things I would do to get myself a Unimog, but only hypothetically. Maybe I wouldn't outright kill someone for a Damnation Alley clone, but I will straight break someone's legs for a Dobbertin Surface Orbiter. Seriously... broken for real. Link