Thought of the day
The other night, I had a dream about brain-eating zombies. I can't remember the details, but they definitely were eating people's brains, and this dream got pretty gory and graphic. I assumed that it's deeper meaning had something to do with my job, but frankly, it freaked me out enough so that I didn't really want to spend much time dwelling on it.
"But," I thought, "I bet Jason would have enjoyed that dream. He loves zombies."
So I thought about writing to him to tell him that I'd had a dream about brain-eating zombies, and then it occurred to me: are there any other kind of zombies besides brain-eating zombies? I want to say I've heard references to "flesh-eating zombies", but I could be wrong. Maybe they're just more rare. Maybe they're the gourmands of the zombie world and look down on the brain-eaters the way a French chef would sneer at McDonalds.
And are there zombie vegetarians? Maybe after a while it occurs to some of them that eating brains is inhumane so they choose to just eat, say, Cheetos. And I guess zombie vegans wouldn't eat anything produced by humans, so they wouldn't even eat Cheetos.
And what about the zombies who are allergic to brains? Can you imagine how difficult that would be? Being a zombie who's allergic to brains? I mean, what would you order in a zombie restaurant? "Dammit! Everything's got brains in it! *sigh* I guess I'll just have the Cheetos. Again."
Strangely enough, WebMD didn't have any information on this subject.
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If, however, you do a WebMD search for "brain eating", one of the results that comes up is Mad Cow Disease. Now, I've seen 28 Days Later, so I know that in addition to the garden variety slow-moving, brain-eating zombies, there are also rage-infected, fast-as-hell, pissed-off zombies who will will bite you wherever they can. And that's if you're lucky. If all they do is bite you, then you just become infected and pissed off and there's at least an outside chance of a cure; more likely is that they'll tear you limb from limb while the small band of healthy survivors you've put together watches in horror. WebMD doesn't go into detail on this, but I'm pretty sure that Mad Cow Disease is the same thing as (or at least very similar to) the rage virus.
Rage-infected zombies don't eat cheetos, though. In fact they don't really eat anything (they only bite out of anger), which is why they eventually die.
Jason can back me up on this.
Well, I'm just guessing, but I would imagine that zombie experts don't put a lot of stock in fictional movies like 28 Days Later and instead prefer hard-hitting documentaries about zombies like Night Of The Living Dead.
Jason can back me up on this.
Wikipedia claims that zombies are usually flesh eating, and only sometimes brain eating. Then again, you can't trust anything Wikipedia says these days.
Those weren't undead zombies in 28 Days, they were living people exposed to chemicals that made them mad and able to run fast. Kind of like baseball players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombies
Ah, research. My old arch-enemy. At it again.
And it's in Wikipedia so you KNOW it's true!
Can your pets become zombies? And if they do will they want to eat human flesh or their own kind?
Does the cat from Pet Sematary count?
No, he actually came fully back to life. He was buried pretty quick, so he was just a little weird when he came back but it was no big deal. The reason the kid came back as a psycho killer was that his dad waited too long to bury him there. Even if he'd been buried as quick as the cat, though, he still would have been a little weird and probably would have had a hard time making friends.
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