The brain munching and unseemly walking are the only clues one needs that dead and/or pretty much dead things aren’t our friends.
Still people lined the Oregon District last weekend in celebration of the cherished and apparently misunderstood American zombie. Needless to say, I was completely discombobulated at Dayton’s Zombie Walk.
Creatures of the night in Dayton and other cities use zombie walks as opportunities to dress like zombies and walk around.
People obviously really like zombies.
Nearly 2,000 humans participated in the walk, so maybe there is something to this whole pretending to be dead thing. I don’t know how many actual zombies showed up.
I, on the other hand, don’t like scary things and I most certainly don’t like to dress like a scary thing that would just as well gnaw on my parietal lobe.
While I totally support the creativity it takes to get all dolled up in dead garb, zombies suck, and, no matter what you read in “Twilight,” so do vampires. Werewolves bite so I am not on team Jacob either.
Make no mistake, I am all for celebrating mythical creatures. I simply don’t know why we’ve got to celebrate the dead monsters.
There are a host of mythical creatures out there.
What about centaurs, mermaids or fairies?
Fairies are way more punk than zombies.
Why can’t Dayton buck the trend and launch what would surely be the nation’s first fairy walk/fly.
Wouldn’t it simply be prettier and, dare I say better, to dress like Tinkerbell, the Tooth Fairy or the Fairy Godmother.
Oh, the hardcore wings we could bedazzle and the gallons of fake blood that could be spared.
Then again, what do I know? I only have half a brain left.
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