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new entry in my Sketch Connection with Kelley
both my kids are obsessed with squirrels - I'll be blogging about this over the weekend:
Zombie Run 2014, Barnsley
..two childhood fears in one scary individual. Some truly stupendous make up on show and all in character till the very end. I ended up with more 'Zombie' than 'run' shots as the event finished earlier than expected. Great fun though.
'Kinemortophobia' - the fear of Zombies. I Googled it.
ZOMBIE was too slow on the attack , drumstick attacked first and was impaled on top of his head. xD
no LEGO ZOMBIE was hurt in this photo shoot, he was just embarrassed.
Above is a participant of the Louisville Zombie Walk. A person in a zombie costume looks like pure entertainment but there is actually a real world warning tucked into these stories of zombies. Viruses.
There's a good interview on NPR with Max Brooks, author of World War Z. He discusses how the worldwide zombie pandemic that he writes about in his book of fiction is a metaphor for coronaviruses such as SARS. Unlike a realworld coronavirus that can be airborne, in his works of fiction one must be bitten by an infected zombie to obtain the Z-virus. Despite that difference, there is a good reason that the worldwide Z virus pandemic came out of China, he says. (The movie version doesn't have it come from China.) China's desire to suppress truths that are unflattering make the well-connected country ripe to incubate world outbreaks. "This is why I based ‘World War Z’ in China because I was looking back at SARS. This is the exact pattern that happened with SARS," said the novelist and military lecturer. Brooks said we saw the coronavirus coming and could have prevented it. "We as a people, as a nation, were dismantling the systems that were put in place to keep us safe," says Brooks. "We have allowed the ship to rust underneath us."