katekat | Only In Austin? American Idol Zombies

From the Daily Texan (and yes, we did actually hear about this before hand, and consider going, but Neil had to work, and I can't be a zombie all by myself...):

Thursday outside the Frank Erwin Center, a horde of zombies attacked the "American Idol" auditions. No one was hurt.

The zombies, 15 fake-bloodied actors in all, lurched out from under the IH-35 overpass and shuffled toward the Erwin Center, where they encountered the pop-star hopefuls.

Most of the 100 or so young people gathered outside had just been rejected by the "American Idol" review board, and they were talking, singing and waiting for rides home when the zombies arrived. "Braaaaaaains!" the zombies said. Nick Muntean, a UT radio-television-film graduate student who organized and participated in the zombie horde, added, "Television rots your braaaaaaains!"

[full article here]

Zombie attacks rock. The funniest part of the whole thing (or the kind of disgusting part) is that they're going to be on American Idol... the producers loved 'em.