Victoria used to be known, jokingly, as the home of the newly wed and nearly dead but I am starting to think it may be the home of the newly dead and nearly wed.
This year, the zombie walk has tried to go "legit" -- complete with permits and sponsors. They also chose to move the officially-blessed walk to Halloween day; in part to coordinate with the Comic Convention that is one of the primary sponsors (those in costume get in for reduced rate. woo). Unfortunately, this move pissed off those who think a zombie walk should be closer to a flash mob than a parade so they have organized a separate walk on a different day -- I am currently getting event invites for both on Facebook.
On top of that, there is a little thing called the Olympics. The torch relay starts here on October 30th and there will be plenty of protests to go along with it including, you guessed it, another zombie walk -- this one "in memoriam" for missing women, residential school survivors, those who have died at the hand of police, and so on.
Oh, and did I mention, a zombie craft fair, too? (it was supposed to follow the official zombie walk, hence the other date) Hubby and I will be participating in the craft fair; Kiddo and I are working on a special Zombie edition of Bümfmag for the occasion. I tried to make some plush zombie stuff... but so far it has been a "pit of fail"... but I will at least be there to keep him company and hawk his wares.
I think after October ends, though, I'm going to need some zombie-free time.
21 October 2009
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I've always wanted to come out to the zombie walk but even at 7 years of age, this would scare the ever loving shit out of Franklin. We haven't hardened him to the undead. We are neglectful parents.
Kiddo has already planned out her costume. She wants to push a baby zombie in a stroller. Heee.
In Franklin's defense, we forced kiddo to read Vols. 1 thru 3 of Grizzly Crime Scenes. Ironically, none of them show the Crime Scenes of Grizzlies.
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