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Update: I realize a lot of you are searching for the hilarious Silence Your Rooster video clips. Here’s a link to the official site. I’ve set it up to open a new window so that, while you’re waiting for it to load (it takes forever) you can either finish this post or enjoy some of my more popular entries.

Today I started getting a lot of unusual traffic from search engines. What’s interesting about that is that I am getting a lot of it from people searching for ads involving the sleep-aid, Ambien.

Apparently, the Ambien people are running some wacky ads featuring a mixed-up rooster that not only crows in the middle of the night, but also shoots hoops, plays the drums, sets off car alarms, and runs the vacuum. The ad campaigns are titled: Silence Your Rooster.

At the time I write this, the phrase, “Silence Your Rooster” is the 6th most searched phrase on Google and I’m getting gobs of residual rooster-related traffic. Unfortunately, when people reach Dead Rooster looking for these ads, they are instead treated with llamas filled with cream corn and Elvis on Elvis chain-fights.

Sorry about that you guys.

Ambien has set up a pretty impressive, albeit very slow, web site with all the ad videos, news about AmbienCR and a pretty lame game in which you try to silence the rooster by throwing pillows at it.

What I suggest to anyone actually wanting to get some sleep, is to visit Silence Your Rooster and try and stay awake long enough for the extremely slow web site to load. I’m sure it’s due to the high-traffic and massive load on the server but, at least for today, there’s your sleeping pill.

Here at the Dead Rooster Online Entertainment Laboratories (DROEL) we are constantly on the lookout for high-quality rooster related entertainment. That’s why, this week, we were especially pleased to unearth a major work in the rare “Zombie Chicken” genre.

NEW BOOK—Cluck: Murder Most Fowl

As my loyal readers already know, I’m a big fan of Horror fiction, so when I discovered a book featuring zombie chickens—and considering the name of my blog—I nearly began to hyperventilate. So far, I’ve only read the sample pages available at Amazon, but I’m already truly impressed.

After those first few pages it became immediately apparent that author Eric D. Knapp is a serious and skillful writer and his book is going to be a delight to read, especially for those of us that love the Horror/Comedy genre.

“Ancient evils have trapped the souls of a group of hens somewhere between life and death, and Bobby Garfundephelt, trapped inside the farm must make his way though the maze of the farm while avoiding the deadly traps of the evil Rooster King and his army. Fortunately for Bobby, the Exorciste de Volaille… a sort of exorcist of poultry has caught wind of the situation and must now enter the evils of the henhouse to rescue Bobby and face off against the evil Rooster King in an epic battle.”
–Revenant Magazine, March, 2008

Although I won’t know until I’ve read the entire novel, I’m sensing an Army of Darkness kind of greatness here. I can’t wait!

I’ve got a review copy on the way and intend to do a full review when I finish the book.

When I was a kid the principal of my school would periodically gather us all up and show us anti-drug films. I remember one in particular where a guy took a couple of puffs off a “marijuana cigarette” then looked at his reflection in a mirror and watched his face melt. That was pretty terrifying stuff for an eight year old.

When I see these old 1960’s drug propaganda films today I usually think they’re pretty hilarious. Some of them, like the following one, make me wonder if I really missed out on something when I decided not to use LSD:

Looks like all the cool kids were “users.”

I didn’t use drugs when I was a teenager, but I was still pretty cool. I had a ‘67 Camaro, a hot blond girlfriend, and played lead guitar in a rock band. I looked like, and even kind of acted like a drug user, but in reality, about the worst thing I ever did was skip school to go surfing–which, admittedly, I did WAY too much.

Good times.