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5 Things To Do Until The Walking Dead Is Back on the Air

5 Things To Do Until The Walking Dead Is Back On the Air
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After a cruelly short 6-episode season, fans of AMC’s critically acclaimed The Walking Dead are now ambling about aimlessly, much like the dreaded walkers they love to fear, searching for their next zombified fix.

While we can’t tell you it’s going to be easy to wait as long as next October to watch your favorite post zombie apocalypse survivors deal with packs of undead monsters as well as pockets of very much alive human monsters, we can offer you some zombie consolation. If you’re looking for ways to occupy your time until Rick, Shane, Lori, Andre, Daryl, Glen, Dale and T-Dog (still hate that name) pull the convoy over for Season Two, perhaps this list below may interest you.

1. Ask for the Graphic Novels for Christmas

As someone who discovered the book a couple years after it came out (I saw it, just didn’t really hear anything about it for a while) I can tell you while the books truly are brilliant, and well worth picking up they’re not going to spoil the viewing experience for you.

Based on the first season, they don’t plan on sticking to the source material as gospel, but rather as a functioning blueprint. They’re still constructing amazing stories, but they have invented new characters and perhaps consolidated other characters from the books into the televised program. Even the characters that are well established have been changed, or better yet in one particular case, have been fleshed out as a much more three dimensional and sympathetic human.

The point is, don’t ignore the books if you think that knowledge will ruin the experience for you. Again, based solely on the first season, this team has taken liberties with the stories, but not in tone or theme. You can enjoy both independently; so why not do so?

2. Go To Haiti, Visit With Some Real Zombies

Bokors, or Haitian voodoo sorcerers, have been turning the living into unwitting slaves for centuries now. Some say the Bokor would poison his/her victim with a combination of powerful psychotropic chemicals. One such drug is tetrodoxin. It is obtained from the puffer fish and is effective in causing nerve paralysis. Mixing that with the fluid secreted by an indigenous toad (Bufo marinus) and simple jimson weed is apparently potent enough to render the consumer of said elixir so immobile, he/she is easily believed to be dead.

After a quick burial and a day or two in an isolated coffin beneath the ground, the poor soul’s mind is turned to mush and becomes easily pliable, and willing to serve his/her evil master/mistresses capricious whims on command.

On the plus side, there are some gorgeous beached in Haiti.

3. Turn Yourself and Friends into Zombies – The Fun Way… With Make-up and Plenty of Booze

Zombie parties were all the rage this Halloween. Thank the dark gods for having the mercy to not shove the Twilight saga up our noses any harder than it’s already being shoved. I’d prefer to be eaten by a ravenous horde of geeks than to ever have to qualify myself as a member of either Team Edward or Team Other Guy.

Here’s a website that seems to have figured all the essentials of a proper Zombie Party, including how to get the make-up right, the best food (ex. haggis) the best music, (ex. Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 corpses) and some fun Zombie party games.

http://www.funthemedpartyideas.info/zombie-party/

It seems the only thing they left out was the alcohol, and fear not, I can provide a 1930’s recipe from the legendary tiki bar, Don The Beachcomber. Be warned these things are powerful. No more than 2 per customer.

* 3/4 oz. lime juice

* 1/2 oz. "Don's Mix" (2 parts grapefruit juice, 1 part cinnamon infused simple syrup)

* 1/2 oz. Falernum

* 1 1/2 oz. Lowndes Jamaican rum

* 1 1/2 oz. gold Puerto Rican rum

* 1 oz. 151 proof Demerara rum

* Dash of Angostura bitters

* 6 drops Hersaint or Pernod

* 1 tsp. Grenadine

* 6 oz. crushed ice

Combine all the ingredients in a blender, adding the ice last. Blend for 5 seconds. Pour into a tall glass and garnish with a mint sprig.

4. Movie/Online Zomb-a-thon

This one is a natural. Here is my list, (in no particular order) but feel free to add and subtract, as you feel necessary – except for number ten. There is no substitute for number ten.

1. Night of the Living Dead

2. Dawn of the Dead

3. Day of the Dead

4. Shaun of the Dead

5. Zombieland 

6. Dead Snow

7. Zombie

8. Army of Darkness

9. Re-Animator

Which now of course brings us to the much-anticipated number 10: Direct form the fertile mind of porn star Jenna Jameson, and starring Robert “Freddy Englund,” allow me to present, Zombie Strippers.

Of course, if you like your zombies in shorter chunks, you might want to check out Bite Me, a series of online shorts taking a unique look at the whole zompocalypse notion. Each episode is nine to ten minutes long, giving you a great burst of undead goodness for those moments when two hours is just too long.

5. Plants Vs. Zombies

Who knew plants would be such an effective weapon in the war on zombies? But if you want to keep your innards intact and your brain from becoming zombie brunch, then I suggest you learn from your neighbor Crazy Dave. What are the odds that a guy whose name starts with the word “crazy” would ever steer you wrong?

This game is so addictive you could start playing today and not notice any lapse in time until the start of Season Two The Walking Dead. Of course by the time you come out of your self-induced video-playing coma, your best friend will have told your wife/girlfriend you’re dead, and those two will be going at it like rabbits. Still, it’s a very cool game, and maybe this is the break up you guys needed anyway.