Zombie culture has always had a grip on my leg, gnawing on me since I was in middle school. I'm infected with the mythology of the dead returning to walk the Earth. It first started when I watched George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" at a friend’s house. "Dawn of the Dead" soon followed and after that I was lost inside the horde of the walking dead. It wasn't the gore, horrible make-up, or the cheesy dialogue in Romero's movies that made them classic in my opinion; it was the conflict inside the last bastions of humanity. Sure, Uncle Alfred is outside the house with hunger in his cold vacant eyes, but let's kill one another for control of the group. Great idea!
That’s enough about me, onto the blog! If asked whether or not the zombie apocalypse is on the horizon most people would say no. It’s impossible they say, but many people believed Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster, when he led people to believe that the world was ending on May 21, 2011 and would continue till October 21, 2011 when the world would ultimately be destroyed. After 3,000 billboards, $140,000 advertising costs, many life savings squandered, their efforts culminated on Saturday May 21, 2011. I slept till noon that day so I might have missed an apocalyptic event that tore the planet asunder. Oh well.
Far be it for me to tarnish a good apocalypse prediction, but if there were to be an event that completely destroys the world as we know it, shouldn’t it be something that we can all walk away from? Even the movie “2012”, a film about the planet’s core heats up causing global flooding, had an escape plan. Almost every apocalyptic event can be walked away from and the undead apocalypse is no exception. All it takes is planning and preparation. This blog will hopefully teach you to prepare for the zombie apocalypse whether you’re in the middle of the road when the undead rise or if you’re secure in your house looking out between the wooden planks that enforce your windows.
Just remember: It’s not a matter of “if”, it’s a matter of when.
Very interesting. I am looking forward to reading more.
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