So, zombies. These reanimated corpses are well-known for craving human flesh. Despite their typically shambling gait, zombies are very good dancers. The little plastic things on the ends of shoelaces were invented by a team of zombies.
I know what you’re thinking, and yes, it’s possible that all of my research for this post consisted of skimming a Wikipedia article and watching three and a half versions of Thriller on YouTube. And then I made some stuff up. But we don’t need to dwell on that.
As someone who’s earned the “zombie” merit badge through diligent reading and/or writing of zombie stories, you should already know the most important thing there is to know: ZOMBIES MAKE ANY STORY BETTER. Any story at all. It doesn’t matter how classic or sacred or seemingly ill-suited a book may be—you throw a zombie apocalypse in there and it instantly gets at least 250% more awesome.
It’s like you got your peanut butter in my chocolate and I got my chocolate in your peanut butter. Only replace “peanut butter” with “living dead” and “chocolate” with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” See what I mean? Two great tastes that taste great together.
If you’ve been thinking of writing the next great zombie crossover, better claim your source material ASAP. Books are getting snapped up faster than fresh brains at lunchtime.
Oh, there goes another one!
This is part of the merit badges for readers & writers series, and may be posted on your site or blog. Have you earned this badge? Will you never earn it? Tell us why in the comments.
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HOW ARE YOU SO CONSISTENTLY AWESOME?!
Sadly, I have not earned this badge (yet!), but I think that we should totally have an ‘Eat Brains Love’ viewing party.
Wonderful post! What are the criteria for winning a badge? I’m the author of FAITH & THE UNDEAD, which as far as I know, is the first faith based zombie novel! I’m published through Dr. Pus at the Library of the Living Dead.
Thanks,
Benjamin Rogers
@T.H. Mafi: My mom said I had to.
@anwa: Yes! Everybody can bring snacks to share. I’ll do popcorn and soda—who wants to be in charge of human organs and Junior Mints?
@Benjamin Rogers: Thank you! The usual Badger Scout rules are that you can claim any badge you feel you’ve earned. So it’s up to you, but I think since this one’s for reading and/or writing zombie stories and you’ve got a whole novel it’s pretty safe to say you’ve earned it!
YESSSSSSSSSSSS. Win!
Jeez. The diet these Hollywood stars put themselves through.
@sidekick55: Never let it be said that I don’t take impassioned pleas for destruction seriously.
@Bryan: AMERICA’S SWEETHEART WILL FEAST ON YOUR SWEETBREADS
haha but seriously when Julia Roberts and her Eat Pray Love makeup artist come for me in the night, you guys are in charge of avenging me
Zombies do make every story better: can I say Pride & Prejudice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies
Nailed it!
Love the site! Peace!
*oogles badge*
I HEART you.
Oh, you bet your sweet little thing that you might bet sometimes I’ll earn it.
I’m thinking what the world needs about now is a zombie apocalypse where it’s the zombies who are running around in apocalyptic worry. It’s the natural progression of things, I tell ya!
Now, all I have to do is figure out how, in a world where the zombies won decades ago, someone gets infected with a nasty case of alive.
What a great post to come in on. I’m looking forward to exploring.
Also, you should have a Facebook page for this ‘blog. Heck, there should be a simple Facebook -app- for this ‘blog, so people could display their badges in a sidebar box on their profile… Heck, I’d be delighted to help, if – you know – any help were desired or needed.
http://www.facebook.com/honor.macdonald
@Honor: Glad you’re here–have fun exploring!
Somehow I still envision this when I think of Facebook:
But as that is a very silly way to live one’s life, I should probably see about fixing that…
Oh, I’m so EXCITED to have found your site! I just posted your lovely Julia on my blog (with attribution, of course!): http://natasha.edcentric.org/2010/08/27/eat-brains-love/
I can hardly wait to start collecting some writerly merit badges for myself.
Thank you!
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