Title: “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”

Author: Max Brooks

Rank: 94

Blurb: Survival Lesson #4: “Blades don’t need reloading.”

Review: “Let’s face it: at one time or another we’ve all faced a zombie scare we aren’t prepared for.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead”

Footnote: We can think of no better way to commemorate the end of the year — and the decade — than a six-year-old zombie book breaking into the Amazon Top 100.

The Zombie Survival Guide [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

We never thought we’d find ourselves agreeing with Michele Bachmann, but her fearmongering about the 2010 Census is starting to make sense to us.

If by “making sense” you mean “could backfire in the most delightful manner.”

Here, in three easy steps, is how Bachmann may end up regretting shooting her mouth off once too often:

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Once again, our tribute to our favorite Christmas song growing up — you may know it from Dr. Demento, but it was also the most-requested song on Eugene’s AM radio station.

In the year that it’s been posted at our YouTube account, we’ve had a few compliments from similar fans. And a couple weeks back, this comment showed up:

My father was in the Skip-Jacks and this has always been a favorite.

Having a dad in the Skip-Jacks is just short of having a dad who worked for Stan Freberg. We’re insanely jealous.

To celebrate the season, RML offers us the cover from his Advent prayer book. Which gives us naughty ideas for next year’s Advent calendar.

Yes, it’s last year’s Christmas Eve post — but with a new headline! Such is what passes for Tradition in these parts.

The Famous Yule Log [WPIX]

Our C-SPAN streaming plug-in is on the fritz, so we’ve invited famed political illustrator Pieter Bruegel the Elder to depict the Senate as it casts its historic healthcare vote at this hour.

Susan Sarandon And Tim Robbins Call It Quits [MTV]