brrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinssss.....
At work, in front of a bad print-out of a picture of a girl which hadn't yet been colour-corrected:

Art Director: "She looks like something out of Resident Evil II."
Production Manager: "Are you going to fix her?"
Art Director: "Of course not. The zombie look is in this season."


For some weird reason, I've been having lots of conversations about zombies lately. I've decided they must have slowly become the new topic du jour or something...

I met a friend's new firefighter boyfriend, and when I commented his fire station was giving me flashbacks to Quarantine, it started an epic conversation about the merits of old vs new zombies.

And at a friend's birthday party, there was an odd side-track of a large group of people into an hour-long discussion of various zombie-related topics, including how we'd improve the so-called "zombie walks", which somehow ended up suggesting staging full-scale military actions in the city.

I decided that people love talking about zombies because they're one of the few traditional enemies that don't require brute strangth to fight. People like to talk about strategy, or technique, or whatever... thus they appeal to everyone, because a la Sean of The Dead, white-shirted cubicle-dwellers can take them down just as easily as anyone else. Nerds love that shit, don't we?

Also, World War Z is an absolutely excellent book.