From Leonard Cohen onward, the past two years have been filled with just one odd coincidence after another. Not nearly daily in occurence, but just enough to be noticed and called out as weird.
So tonight I'm just killing some time after my first class back in Barcelona: "Strategy I". Seems like a solid class. I'm watching the fourth episode of AMC's decent zombie series The Walking Dead. Fun show.
In the episode I'm watching there's a sizable zombie battle toward the end and easily fifteen or more of the undead are taken down. This leaves our heroes with a lot of cleanup the next day. And purely for reasons of efficiency I find myself wondering the somewhat disturbing wonder "So in a world with zombies, it'd probably be helpful to live near a crematorium... or at least somehow bring a portable incinerator with you. Do they make those?"
Less than five minutes later the show's over and I go check Facebook and find that my old friend Cate has copy-and-posted an ad Gmail had showed her that had freaked her out. Which I guess pretty convincingly answers my question.
Christ, I'd like to know what the hell was in her email that earned her that ad targeting. And why the audience for animal incinerators is large enough to support a significant secondhand market.
Addendum: You know, while we're on the topic I just want to ask: exactly how long can your basic zombie realistically keep up with the "shambling around aimlessly looking for dinner" before he finally starves out? I'll give the average braineater eight weeks without brains before simply getting too weak to go on. Twelve if we're being generous.
So this then would just mean that if you manage to survive your basic initial zombie-apocalypse scenario, you really just gotta find yourself a nice inaccessible rooftop or deadbolted basement, stock up on a few hundred boxes of Lunchables™, a barrel of water or two, a copy of The Stand and maybe the newfound humor of Left Behind: The Complete Series, and hey... a fiscal quarter later and you're free and off to enjoy repopulating the planet along with all the other quirky but lovable ragtag survivors. More than doable.
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