All day long I've been in a bit of a zombie mood. I've been wanting to play zombie video games, watch zombie movies, and just tried renting Zombieland (been hearing good things about it) from one of them magic rental boxes, but it didn't like my debit card (modern tech is overrated!) Just a few moments ago I actually bought one of the tracks from the original Dawn of the Dead soundtrack (creepy synth-goodness) which is one of the best zombie movie soundtracks ever. Point is, zombie mood, straight up zombie mood. Now that being said, I had a bit of zombie synchronicity happen while browsing through the blogs I follow today.
Over at Ugly Overload (focuses on the uglies in the animal kingdom) I found out that scientists are experimenting with zombie producing wasps to help fight crop infesting insects (sort of making an all natural pesticide...if you consider genetic alterations all natural). The frightening part is that while it is unlikely, there is always some freak chance they will produce wasps capable of infecting humans and turning them into everyone's favorite flesh eating undead. This same concept also happens to be part of the plot in the zombie game, Dead Rising, which although fun, I would hate to have to deal with in real life.
Anyways, you can read up on the full story over at Popsci, and I will go and work on my zombie outbreak survival plan just in case. Lets see...cricket bat, shotgun, 45. magnum, lots of ammo...plenty of food for wife and kids...loose the easily startled chihuahua...
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That's hilarious. I just wrote a post yesterday about upcoming zombie movies. It looks like there's a huge trend in them now--yahoo!
The trend has been going on since 28 Days Later came out it seems. That was almost immediately followed by Dawn of the Dead 2004, and Shaun of the Dead, at least as far as big movies go. There have been countless ones since then, big budget or not, and some have been quite awesome.
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