Scenes from the 2008 Boston Zombie Walk


Another year, another batch of brains eaten.  Instead of last year's route through the liberal, zombie-loving Somerville/Cambridge stretch of Elm Street to Mass Ave from Davis Square to Harvard, the living dead grew bolder this year and ambled their way from Boston's South Station up through Downtown Crossing, the Commons, the Public Gardens, and into trendy Newbury Street, where they feasted on yuppie flesh and rivers of Starbucks coffee mixed with rivers of blood.  Or something like that.  What better way to spend Memorial Day then actually hanging out with the dead?  Er, undead?



One cost of changing the locale from the liberal-progressive heart of the Hub was the absence of so many of the cool protest signs from last year: I missed the anti-zombie protesters, the pro-zombie counterprotesters, the military families demanding support for the Zombie Troops, and of course, the android protesters holding signs saying ZOMBIES TAKE ROBOT JOBS.  Nevertheless, I reprised (er, re-animated?) my identity as DISCO ZOMBIE, the irrepressible walking corpse that reminds all who see him that "Disco...never....dies!"

YEAH, BABY, YEAH!


Perhaps reflecting the more paranoid, militant climate of our troubled times, the zombie hunters were really out in force today.  .   

Chicks wielding scythes = good
Supersoaker filled with napalm = better
Full biohazard assault gear = even better



Guy basing his costume on an obscure reference to a game I've only seen in Japan = best!
(hey, it any idiot can use a shotgun, but it takes real guts to kill zombies by typing long convoluted Japanese names)

Of course, as the Zombies paraded through Boston Commons, the friendly folk from the Umbrella Corporation sent helpful public relations reps to hand out informational flyers assuring everyone that there was absolutely no danger involved.

The march went all the way to the Prudential Center, where, attracted by the smell of overpriced consumer goods (doubtlessly created using the mashed-up brains of third world child laborers), the zombies stormed the hoity-toity Prudential mall, where shoppers learned to their horror that, while zombies cannot climb stairs, they are very adept at using escalators.


All in all, a zombie-riffic time was had by all.  We could have even chosen to end our day at the You Don't Mess with the Zohan promotional haircutting van, but decided only on a quick picture, as we all know that when hairdressers fight zombies, hairdressers always win.



Weirdest part of the day - when the zombie rally went right by a Free Tibet rally on the Commons. I have video but it wouldn't upload. Oh well.
See you next reaping!