Sunday Funday: The Walking Dead

I look forward to a few things on Sunday. Being able to completely sleep in (no Ivory cries to wake me like on Saturday) and The Walking Dead.

ZOMBIES! Yes, halloween has passed but the zombie craze never will as demonstrated by the plethora of zombie movies, books and TV shows. I mean c'mon season 3 of The Walking Dead premiered with 10.87 MILLION viewers. Season two started at 7.26 and the season finale got almost 9 million viewers. At the rate of growth, popularity and the fact that season three is the largest season, a whopping 16 episodes (which are to be split into two 8 episodes halves - DAMN IT) the finale for the season should be in the 11-12 million viewer range.

If you're one of the other millions of people who aren't watching the walking dead I have one question for you: Why? It's a genuinely good show. It goes over the basis of our existence, what happens when you don't listen to your elders, what you should[n't] do if your husband dies/ with your best friends wife, why you shouldn't do anything for anyone but yourself, and when all else fails shoot the person behind you to save yourself. I mean, it encompasses the very best of the human species and what they do in a crisis.

Also, since we can admit we all hate Carl & Lori is now the worlds biggest harlot can we also admit that Daryl and Michonne are the best characters in the show? I mean Michonne's ideas are phenomenal. Let me drag around two walkers to mask my scent to other walkers but cut off their lower jaw so they can't bite me and their arms so they can't tear me to shreds. She also carries around a sword she obviously lifted from someone who sells Asian goods. This is great because it keeps her at a far enough distance to effectively chop off the walker's heads but never needs reloading.
Daryl is a hunter using a cross bow with handmade arrows. As long as their are trees he can effectively have a life long weapon and his hunting skills will feed him and keep him safe for years. He can track animals and people and can also avoid detection because of those skills. Please, put both of these people on my team!

These internet memes were just too hilarious to pass up. I couldn't post too many without them being extremely dirty or slut shaming Lori, which let's face it, it's the end of the world for these people. That whole "I wouldn't [verb] you if you were the last person on Earth" phrase comes to mind. I'm guessing a lot of you would actually verb that noun. Don't lie. It's the end of the world and the de-evolution of civilization and society. No one can judge you for anything because basically everyone is dead. Or about to be dead.

If you follow along with the show then maybe you are wondering what I am and that's basically why at this point in the series, have these guys not done the whole take over a prison / build a settlement sooner? I mean with Lori getting preggo and everyone basically dying on Hersel's farm it brings me to this question: Why aren't you guys better prepared?  It's a serious question and I wish I was joking but the CDC actually posted a blog about being prepared for a Zombie invasion and then that whole bath salts I'm-going-to-eat-75%-of-your-face bit, but oh wait just kidding that person wasn't actually on bath salts!

We have zombies. Time to go back to California. ;)

While the CDC was using the whole zombie invasion as a cute ploy to get you to be prepared in general for an emergency here's what you should have in case of a zombie invasion:

• First aid kit - You'll probably be injured and there won't be doctors. 
• Sewing Kit - You may need to stitch yourself or someone else up. Brush up on your sewing skills too.
• Tons of gauze - Because bandaids are flimsy and don't wrap around a torso
• Knife - You'll need it as last defense to stab zombies, to clean animals you kill for food and to make other weapons.
• Dependable Weapon- Sword, Spear or Bow and Arrow. Get like Katniss and make one if you have to because ammo won't be around forever.
• Boots - You might have to go through mud, water, rough terrain trying to run away. Flimsy tennis shoes, flats, flip flops or heels won't cut it.
• Water - You'll need it for everything. It would also be a good idea to live on an island or have your main camp on a boat out at sea. Zombies aren't really known to swim. Although there was that one movie where they walked on the ocean floor. Yikes!
• Defensible Fortress - You may have to make this up yourselves. Prison, hospital, old warehouse,Old WPA buildings, dams, power stations, water treatment plants, any place that you can erect a fence around and patrol the borders. If you can get to an army base or old school fort you might be better off provided it's not over run with zombies. You might have to clean a little house but I'd stick to the country and away from cities unless it's a small town and you have a large group.
• Food Source - Humans can live without food for a pretty long time but your energy will wane after a little while. Stocking up on canned goods and non-perishables is ideal but can you lug all that around while you prepare your fortress? Hit up the Home Depot and Lowes if they haven't been looted and look for fruit and vegetable seeds and get planting a garden to sustain yourself while you're locked behind your sturdy walls.

That's all I've got. Feel free to add more for me. I may not get far but I'll probably get farther than most since I do well under pressure and am not 100% stupid.

Do you watch The Walking Dead?
In the event of the zombie apocalypse are you Team Zombie or Team Survivor?