Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Zombie Potpourri

Yesterday's post lauded the Halloween night premiere of the new zombie series The Walking Dead.  One day before that, though, on Saturday October 30th, the Walking (Just Pretending to Be) Dead congregated in Asbury Park, NJ.  The event was the third annual NJ Zombie Walk, which featured over 4,000 bloody, decomposing attendees.

Here are a couple of videos from the proceedings.  First, a link to a Star-Ledger news segment on the event; then, embedded below, a video one of the participants shot and posted on YouTube (it's fun to see how the walkers try to distinguish themselves from the horde by wearing Halloween costumes along with their zombie makeup).





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One last zombie-related item.  You might recall that when Macabre Republic launched back at the start of August, the first interview conducted was with Alden Bell, author of The Reapers Are the Angels.  Later that same week, Bell appeared at a Barnes and Noble bookstore in New York City.  The video from that event has since been posted online as part of the Barnes and Noble Studio.  Watch as the author discloses the origins of his fascination with the undead, reads from his novel, and theorizes about the pop cultural significance of zombies as he fields questions from the audience.

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