Zombies
ZomBcon 2011, or Why I Shared Chapstick with a Stranger
I am in line to meet True Blood’s Sam Trammell at Seattle’s second annual ZomBcon, a conference dedicated to zombie culture. By 11 a.m., I have stood in two different 45-minute lines and bumped into 16 other people in the exact same Sookie outfit as me (“Just another soon-to-be-dead waitress at Merlotte’s”). My make-up needs…
Seattle’s Zombie Obsession
Nine reasons why Seattle is the Zombie capital of the world.
An infection is spreading through Seattle—one so virulent it threatens to overtake the city’s other iconic symbols (coffee, rain, hipsters in plaid): zombies. Put another way, you can’t swing a dead cat in Seattle without hitting a dead person (who’s been reanimated and craves flesh and brains). There’s plenty of cruel speculation as to why…