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Zombies on Hollywood Boulevard

Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Zombies shuffle through Hollywood

Zombies shuffle through Hollywood

I’ve taken a bit of a break from zombie fiction for a few weeks in favor of participating in Script Frenzy, a month-long script-writing social event that encourages people to get out and write for a month. Having just finished, my thoughts have turned back to zombies.

Last weekend, my journalist girlfriend Caitlin M. Foyt and I decided to go check out the So.Cal Zombie Walk, a gathering for charity that had participants covered in makeup and stumbling down Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame. Caitlin was searching for a stranger to interview for her blog project, BeautifulStrangerLA.com, which documents her meetings with various interesting people throughout Los Angeles. (As it turned out, she found Chanel Jensen, who was dressed as a zombie Marilyn Monroe.)

Outbreak: Overrun by Monsters

Monday, December 14th, 2009

 

1302966621_c05eda5724 The other day while perusing my favorite tech blog, I came across the a loosely zombie-related post (someone had re-done Star Wars movie posters to appear as though zombie flicks) and noticed the following exchange among the comments:

"What’s with all the zombie stuff lately?"

"Yeah. They’re like the new vampires."

My initial thought was that this comment displayed an ignorance of monster history. Truly, the two super-natural genres share little cultural commonground: vampires have often been lumped in with monsters of old (Frankenstein, Mummies, and other manner of creatures found in Van Helsing), while zombies have been something very much their own.

Calculated Risk

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

7:13 p.m., Nov. 20 – Ft. Worth, Texas

There were eleven bodies covering the pattered maroon carpet.

One row of six, one row of five, all in the lobby so that everyone could see. Everyone being the concerned parties: Shane and Dale from within the bank, and the police from outside the bank, peering in through the glass.