tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179almostwittyalmostwittyalmostwitty2009-09-08T22:19:25Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162179:277196Zombies! What are they good for?2009-09-08T11:55:43Z2009-09-08T22:19:25Zpublic0<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/wp-content/uploads/shalene_zombie.jpg"><img src="http://www.almostwitty.com/wp-content/uploads/shalene_zombie.jpg" alt="Zombies only want you for your brains" title="Zombies only want you for your brains" width="300" height="308" class="size-full wp-image-2006" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Zombies only want you for your brains</p></div>
<p>A debate that HyperHam seems to be having with her mother (and defacto, me) …</p>
<p><strong>What can you do with an untamed zombie?</strong></p>
<p>So we’re leaving out the zombies at the end of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/">Shaun of the Dead</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/">Fido</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/">Land of the Dead</a>, ie the ones that have either been trained, or shown signs of doing things other than wanting to eat your brains out.</p>
<p>This does include zombies who can talk and reason – as in the ones in <a href="http://www.tastyflesh.com/">Tasty Flesh</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Zombies">Marvel Zombies</a> – just as long as they still have an all-consuming desire to eat your brains and flesh.</p>
<p>Suggestions that we’ve had so far include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Prostitutes/escorts – which wouldn’t work because prostitutes/escorts work for money. And what’s the good of money if it doesn’t get you brains? Plus, of course, would a zombified escort want their client’s money or their brain? Their brain, of course.</li>
<li>Loan shark heavies – ie a loan shark, or someone you owe money to, threatens to send zombies to your door. This wouldn’t work because a zombie let loose would end up chomping through the brains of the person you owed money to – or worse yet, turning them into zombies. And a zombie isn’t going to work hard to pay up your debt.</li>
</ul>
<p>Surely, the whole reason that zombies are such a popular topic in culture is because they stand for the relentless, the indefinable. The thing that cannot be stopped, reasoned with or outnumbered. </p>
<p>Of course, I say all this without having seen a single zombie film (aside from the rather terrible <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318627/">Resident Evil: Apocalypse</a>) because I’m rather scared of them in the movie world. Of course, this didn’t stop HyperHam buying me the surprisingly good <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1602391874?ie=UTF8&tag=auk1&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1602391874">The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead</a> which is a great read. With a couple of good life lessons thrown in for good measure. </p>
<p><strong>Note to future self:</strong> I’m scared of zombies. So stop looking for Flickr pics of zombies at midnight. Because it’s just going to scare you.</p>
<p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.almostwitty.com/media-musings/zombies-what-are-they-good-for" title="Read Original Post">almost witty</a>.</small></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=almostwitty&ditemid=277196" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments