Zombies infect Silver Spring with scares, satire

Editor’s note: Kudos to fellow bloggers Sligo (of SilverSpringSingular.com) and Eric (of ThayerAvenue.com), who planned October’s second-annual zombie walk. Not sure how they’re going to top this year’s walk, but it should be killer.

Photo: Braaaiiins would have helped me focus this shot. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP.

Photo: Braaaiiins would have helped me focus this shot. Credit: J. Deseo/SSP.

The mob outside the Quarry House Tavern on Bonifant Street got ugly Saturday night. They snarled like rabid animals. They gnawed on brain matter and “smoked” severed fingers. Hey, you would too if you got up on the wrong side of the grave like these people. Don’t judge.

Eventually the crowd for this year’s Silver Spring Zombie Walk grew to a guesstimated 500 heads (not including the disembodied ones) as they dragged themselves up Georgia Avenue to Colesville Road. Participation in the impromptu parade of undead more than doubled since the first rally last year.

“We’ve got two cop cars now,” blogger and event co-organizer Sligo quipped of the event’s security detail. “That’s a measure of our success.” (more…)

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Books: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

Courtesy of Quirk Books.

Courtesy of Quirk Books.

REVIEW — Here’s the straight dope before I stumble through this book review: I have never read any work by Jane Austen. And despite my participation in last year’s Zombie Walk, I have no working knowledge of the undead.

With that said, the 2009 novel “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is a sweet tale of puppy love amid a zombie-infested landscape — a classic romance “now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem,” as the publisher plugs it. (more…)

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