This thread reminds me of my sig line:)

David Sedaris spent quite a bit of time talking about zombies the other night. It started because his recommended book on thie tour is The Zombie Survival Guide He even had copies for sale at his signing table. Apparently, the book is filled with every fact you'd want to know about zombies. Read it. I'm sure it will clear up all of those "urban zombie myths" you've been hearing.

Zombies are boring...all they eat is human flesh. If I were a zombie, I'd still want my chocolate fix! Ah well...maybe I could eat the CEO of Hershey's or something.

But, I wouldn't want to be those zombies from the remake of the film Dawn Of The Dead which came out 3 years ago. They run...and as a member of the undead, I would want to get as little exercise as possible to eat the brains of the living...I wouldn't want my limbs to shrivel off, after all.

The whole Devouring thing is what gets me.

We tend to be scared poopless of anything up the food chain from us, like sharks and bears (Jabberjaw and Winnie as notable exceptions).

The thought of being devoured by anything, especially something that resembles us, is very creepy.

David Sedaris was very emphatic over this zombie mischaracterization, zombies cannot run. He read us a passage from the book he recommended, detailing this.

For a quick tutorial, please see the SURVIVAL GUIDE feature on one of my favorite websites:

http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/

Good call, Boss.

Max Brooks, Mel Brooks son wrote this book called World War Z. It is an oral history of a world wide Zombie infestation and how the world crumbles and society collapses.. It is so spooky and has so many references to whats going on in the world today... eeeeeekkk..

But it is a book called "The Rising" by an author named Brian Keene, that basically about a year ago after reading it, I could not sleep. It was such a disturbing Zombie book unlike I ever read before....

I just don't find zombies very frightening. They're too easy to get away from, unless you're one of those people that gets paralyzed by fright, in which case the horror genre equivalent of natural selection takes place. Vampires aren't very scary either. Well, Nosferatu was scary, but all the others are mostly sexy. Some of the scariest things I can think of are real-life things, like Ann Coulter.