Make of this what you will....

[captainsblog]

Two of the top trending stories on Google News right now are:

Richard Dawson of Family Feud Fame dead at 79

and, more to the current point,

After gory incidents, online 'zombie' talk grows

From an actual Associated Press story, datelined Tampa:



First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Texas: a mother accused of killing her newborn, eating part of his brain and biting off three of his toes. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain.

It was different in New Jersey, where a man stabbed himself 50 times and threw bits of his own intestines at police. They pepper-sprayed him, but he was not easily subdued.

He was, people started saying, acting like a zombie. And the whole discussion just kept growing, becoming a topic that the Internet couldn't seem to stop talking about.

The actual incidents are horrifying - and, if how people are talking about them is any indication, fascinating. In an America where zombie imagery is used to peddle everything from tools and weapons to garden gnomes, they all but beg the comparison.

Violence, we're used to. Cannibalism and people who should fall down but don't? That feels like something else entirely.

So many strange things have made headlines in recent days that The Daily Beast assembled a Google Map tracking "instances that may be the precursor to a zombie apocalypse." And the federal agency that tracks diseases weighed in as well, insisting it had no evidence that any zombie-linked health crisis was unfolding.

If ever there was a time for you to secure your copy of this survival guide, it is now:



Other factors remain to be considered. The Mayan calendar; the Mitt Romney candidacy; the Queen's jubilee (anyone checked under HER hood lately to be sure she's not undead?); and, of course, the first Mets no-hitter in over 50 years.

It's 1:00 and time for lunch. Dum de-dum, de-dum dummmm....

Comments

[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

Jesus.....It doesn't matter that I live(d) in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, West Palm, Dc, Baltimore, Orlando and such...my hometown is still Tampa and this is why we call certain people from home 'Tampons'

Z

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

So, the Romney coronation in Tampa this summer.... consistent with that?

[cinematixyz.livejournal.com]

Keep me outta it, Doll..there's a reason I haven't been back home in years ;)

Z

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Ta for the book plug! :)

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

What, just because you and Emily have contributions to it? I'd never base a safety recommendation on nepotism;)

(Also, check back to the original entry; more photo evidence has been added.)

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

*snerk*