This one goes out to all the Zombie fanatics, and yes i know, The Zombie Apocalypse will soon be upon us, as in October 26 in Carry Town! Yes, the Carry Town Annual Zombie Walk is here again! Pre-walk meet up at The Landing at Fountain Lake (Byrd Park) is at 1pm and the starting point of the main event will begin on the sidewalk in front of Kroger on W. Cary Street in Cary town immediately after. For any one who is lame and has never heard of it, your about to become awesome with knowledge. The zombie walk is where anyone who is somebody or nobody can come dressed as a zombie or a zombie hunter. Now something this awesome only happens over and over again because there are rules: here they are:
ZOMBIES (AND ANY NON-ZOMBIE ATTENDEE) MUST OBEY THESE RULES TO PARTICIPATE. The organizers of the Richmond Zombie Walk will not be held responsible for the actions of the event participants. By attending this event you agree to follow these rules. Your cooperation will ensure that this event continues for years to come.
1) DO NOT touch anyone/anything (especially storefront windows). NO EXCEPTIONS. Even though you and I may love this kind of thing there may be others who do not, respect their space and they will respect our celebration. Yes, this means dripping.splattering blood too. keep it to yourself.
2) DO NOT attempt to scare anyone who is not a willing participant. If anyone is freaking out, turn and shamble in the opposite direction.
3) No walking out into the street or traffic Again a great way to get hurt or arrested, not to mention possibly causing an accident. Richmond zombies use crosswalks and obey the walk/don’t walk signs. it’s okay to break character to cross safely. Just use what little bit of brains you have left in your head people.
4) Any weaponry should be easily discernible as fake Keep bright obnoxious orange caps on the end of toys guns. NO REPLICA WEAPONS, the word replica implies “like the real thing”. NO PAINTBALL OR AIRSOFT GUNS. Not only are they dangerous, they are illegal to use in public areas. These are projectile weapons capable of inflicting serious injury. DO NOT BRING THEM. Police officers will be present. You have been warned.
5) As fun as it would be, no part of your costume should squirt or project any liquid or objects
6) No profanities We will most likely walk by many innocent children during the walk, no need to warp their minds any further than seeing the walking dead already will. Keep it in character, i’ve never heard a zombie drop the F-bomb.
7) Ham it up! You’re wearing fake blood and ripped up clothes and walking around moaning in public, doing that louder will not be any more embarrassing.
8) Walk like a zombie This is not a speed-walking event, zombies lurch, crawl, limp, slither, etc. Think more Romero zombie, not “run” zombie except for avoiding traffic. see #2.
9 ) Stay in character We know everyone is excited about this, but zombies do not truly have the motor or cognitive abilities to operate a camera or cell phone. We have plenty of people who will be documenting the event, so please try to refrain from taking pictures during the actual walk. There will be time before the walk to take photos and/or vids. also, zombies don’t have conversations or text their friends. They’re dead, they’re all messed up.
10) Stay on public property DO NOT go into stores or other private properties. stick to the sidewalk.
11) Have fun Come up with a theme and stay in character as much as possible. it’s a celebration of a great time of year, moan like you mean it! for more information: check out the Carry town Zombie Walk Page! http://richmondzombiewalk.com/event-information/#.UmrzVfmsim4
Here is a video from last years zombie walk!
Now my expertise is zombie make up, it is a secret talent i first discovered when i went to my first zombie walk
Costume Tips:
you either want to go for a realistic zombie costume or a fun zombie costume. realistic: - dark and earth clothes, no bright colors, layers fun: - maybe themed or bright colored For either you can use the same tips I'm about to give.
you want to cut the clothes - don't have clean cuts, have them look frayed. (star the cut with scissors, but then rip the fabric the rest of the way)
have blood splattered everywhere -you can go as crazy with this as you would like -or you can have blood only around the rips in your clothes and on the front of your chest (as if blood dripped from your zombie lips)
Make Up:
I like to watch a lot of YouTube tutorials, its always easier to do something once you have actually seen it done. But its hard to find good videos, so here are some good ones that i really like. I will include both videos for beginners and experts, but i encourage everyone to try to do the coolest look! its really fun and not that difficult!
We started at Alamo Barbecue, which is delivery only, too add to its awesomeness it is delivery only on a hot pink funny looking bike. They have a very delicious and peppery barbecue, also come very excellent mac-n-cheese with pepper in it as well (still oh so yummy, you just need to be slightly more inclined to a little spicy kick.)
The next place we went was Anthony's on the hill. A little Italian place, casual with paper table cloths, but all of their food they make themselves, the dough, the sauce. It was delicious. The pizza was a little thin, but the thick sauce, the gooey cheese, and the thick warm crust all made up for that. A great place for lunch.
WPA Bakery was up next on this food train, and i don't think i have ever tastes anything more delicious in my whole entire life. Buttermilk pie is the way to go, my young Jedi friends, buttermilk pie is the way to go.
Proper Pie Co. was the last stop (the tour was shortened on the account of myself and my fellow tourists being underage for drinking). The guy who owns the restaurant used to tour with bands as their caterer, he toured with the Beatle! <3 Here i ate a really yummy vegetable pot pie.
SO food tours are really groovy, but im all about spicing up everyday life by sprinkling in a little nerd in where ever i can. Wouldn't it be cool to have a geekdom themed food tour? Here are some really cool geek themed foods you can make with friends while have a Harry Potter Marathon or any other awesome marathon:
Make a grilled cheese however you like and then make it super by holding a stencil of the superman S over the grilled cheese sandwitch and then spray a mix of red food coloring and spray butter
Combine all the ingredients together, in a blener. Pour into a tall glass and serve cold. Store any remainder of this mixture in a pitcher in the refrigerator.
TODAY was the day that Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy was published in 1979. i think it is only appropriate that the world celebrate this beautiful book and the awesome movie that it made!
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy was created by Douglas Adams, originally it was a radio series and then it was turned into a 6 book trilogy. The most popular book, and the one that was made into a movie, was The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.
Now, i believe that every person should read the books and watch the movie, and in this case it doesn't matter what order because both were brilliant (the book was obviously more so than the movie, but the movie defiantly does the book justice)
Here are some beautiful quotes and clips from both the beginnings of the movie and the book that will defiantly get those people who haven't read the book or seen the movie interested in reading the book and seeing the movie. AND if you have read the book and seen the movie, then enjoy reminiscing.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descendant life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has- or rather had- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole of it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Richmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be ,and a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible, stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences."
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
These quotes and clips are from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the movie made about the book, no copyright intended. This is not my work, this is the work of a brilliant genius named Douglas Adams. He is brilliant.
George Lucas, our beloved Star Wars hero, just bought 141,573 shares in Starbucks. Crazy. BUT this means good things too all the Star Wars Starbucks drinking fans out there.
TOMORROW, the 5th of October 2013, they will be selling Star Wars themed edible things, including something called the Wookie Cookie.
The only advertisement for this are in stores so go out and get your Star Wars on with a surgery energy coffe thing!
