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Hey there now I’m really getting into the Halloween Swing BOO TO YOU

All MY pictures today are from out and about in Sanford.

We’re looking into Zombies today.

But first someone who isn’t falling apart or trying eat your brains.

oh and all quotes are from grave stones including the title.

“Here lies the body of Jonathen Blake,, stepped on the gas instead of the brake. Uniontown, PA.

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Making it thru Droughtlander by

wallowing in the obvious:: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/outlander-a-love-story-beyond-time/

Getting your I really hate that girl attitude on: http://outlander.wikia.com/wiki/Laoghaire_MacKenzie

Relishing the revenge: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/outlander-dukes-death-marys-revenge-903831

“The defense rests

Counselor John E. Goembel

Willwood Cemetery, Rockford, Ill.

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So Zombies–well let me be perfectly honest–I never got into the whole attraction. I mean when Vampires were popular I got that–often charming, hypnotic, grief even Tom Cruise…and better yet Brad Pitt played one…but Zombies???

I mean all you can do is fight against them. Even if they weren’t trying to eat your brain and contaminate you so you’ll take up the same eating habits (see vampires have these neat teeth and only make small punctures and don’t necessarily have to kill you if they’re only in for a pint or so–but try to function with a few bites out of your brain—well there are a few people I know but…and depending on the novel or movie they don’t immediately become vampires.). I mean would you want to have that decaying mess setting on your furniture or dropping bits and pieces (of themselves) about you dining area and kitchen.

And sex with Vampire has been the topic of books with no end…but sex with a zombie…I mean even the blind girl who befriend Frankenstein couldn’t deal with the smell…enough to gag anyone…can you visualize having sex with one…I mean talk about loosing parts….gross….and certainly not something I want to go into…since this is a very well behaved blog.

“I made an ash of myself.”

Julian Skaggs, SOMEWHERE IN WEST VIRGINIA

So basically all you do is fiht them–they replace Nazis (or in above case are), Indians, space aliens as the evil monster, so its the same old story, different chapter–sorry Misty but I just can’t get it…But I’ll still look it over in honor of the Hallowday

First there really are Zombies–well atleast kinda..but they’re rats…The parasite Toxoplasna gondii infects rates and they actually take them over and the good news is that these same parasites can infect humans to and when they do there have been evidence of personality changes and with a scary tendency toward insanity and while they’re not really zombies as they’re still alive it’s still a bit scary.

The first I ever heard of zombies was in movies about voodoo and the like from mostly Hatti, but they tended to wander to other plaes. Creatues usually dead that were controlled by some type of priest or adherent of the darker religions of the tropical climes specifically voodoo.

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“Strange is my name,

and I’m on strange ground

And strange it is

I can’t be found

William Strange–also somewhere in W.Va.

Zombies in the earlier stories were bodies–usually whole–not the decaying creatures you see today..they moved about with blank, lifeless eyes and often moved with their arms extended and all movements were stiff and unnatural.

The first Zombie movie I found was King of the Zombies (1941) was was a comedy.—if you look at the zombies with outstretched arms and shuffling steps it does look pretty silly.

1943 brought us I Walked With a Zombie: “Filled with eerie atmosphere and chilling sets, the film follows a young Canadian nurse named Betsy (Frances Dee) as she travels to a Caribbean Island to treat a plantation manager’s sick wife. The nurse finds the island to be inhabited by strange creatures and all kinds of eerie voodoo legends. As she develops feelings for her boss, Betsy makes it her goal to heal his wife Jessica even if it requires resorting to voodoo.” http://www.listal.com/movie/walked-zombie

My particular favorite of this period was the 1945 Zombies on Broaddway with stars which included Bela Lugosi. Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss’s new nightclub or face the consequences. http://www.listal.com/movie/zombies-on-broadway

“Here lies Bessy Bell

But whereabouts I cannot tell

Anonymous, somewhere in a Necropolis in Scotland”

There is a real virus that resembles some of the Zombie ideas

Mad Cow Disease causes cows to become “mindless attack cows”. When human’s contract the disease (usually eating contaminated meat..not necessarily brains) it’s called Creutzfeldt-Jakob.

Symptoms include

Change in gait

Lack of coordination

Twitching

Jerks and seizures

Delirium and/or dementia

and these Zombies would be faster than the average mass media ones.

“He thought of course his holding must

Admit him to the heavenly trust–

But when handed in his proxy

He found they wanted Orthodoxy”

Anonymous

Modern day zombies are generally infected by a plague, contaminated by atomic accidents or chemical mishaps either accidental or intentional acts of war or just plain old basically evil baddies.

The modern condition is often similar to our aforemention parasites and viruses only the person is animated after death and it is often passed on by the bite of the creature (which seems to be borrowed from the old time vampire), They are basically moronic eating and attacking beings who often eat brains….I am not sure if that is in an attempt to replace what they like or just a species preferred thing. Otherwise they basically resemble their early cinema fore-bearers with their motions being jerky and their communications limited to grunts and drools and in some instance they may even have alien controllers

My originator of modern era and monster décor would be

Night of the Living Dead 1968 by George Romero and I remember the starkness of this new genre…it was never one of my favorites but it is unbelievably the birth of a lot in the horror industry

Dawn of the Living Dead introduced a series to Zombie land

and I actually saw Shaun of the Living Dead and actually watched about half before I was too bored to continue.

One mention of the worst (this is maybe the worst movie of anykind ever) movie with Zombies and Bela Lugosi again was directed by Ed Wood in 1959 was Plan 9 From Outer Space: has a questionable premise at its very core: an extra-terrestrial assault that uses the Zombie as its primary weapon. But it doesnt improve from there; it only gets worse, much worse. Its all wrong, from the incoherent plot, to the bogus production design all the way down to the mirth-inducing performances, which are as wooden as the sets. There are schools of thought that state that Plan 9 from Outer Space is the greatest bad movie ever made, but always pay close attention to the emphasis on the word bad. http://whatculture.com