FIRST (real) POST

17Aug07

hey everybody, i’m zombieGRRL. like i said in the survey below, i won’t tell you my real name, so dont ask. i’m a high school student in Minnesota (near minneapolis), but i’m almost done. i started this blog because i wanted to be able to post somewhere about how i was doing and the day to day drama of my life (heh), but more than that, i wanted to talk about zombies.

i’ll just tell you right from the beginning here that i am a dead rights activist. (altho, i have no problem with saying ‘zombie.’ ‘mobile deceased’ might be more PC, but it’s just so… snooty? just don’t call them corpses) im going to be the president of the dead-live alliance at my school once the new year starts, and i had an internship earlier this summer with a lobbying group. heh, i was one of those people on the corner of hennepin with the clipboards, that you ignored when i tried to get you to sign a petition for deceased worker quotas or increased cure funding. it’s cool, though, i had a blast!

my brother is a zombie. he got bit back in 2003, during the cleanup. he was actually one of the test cases for home-care of the dead. my parents worked really hard to keep him safe. i know some families stick their zoms in a cage or something, and that’s just mean, i think. nowadays, we keep the muzzle on (duh), but other than that, he can go wherever he wants. he knows not to leave the property, too. Deceased Americans are smarter than most people realize, they’re just slower to learn than the living. (have you seen the brains awareness spots? i helped work on those!)

so, i’ve lived with a zom for almost 4 years, and i know what they’re like. yes, they can be dangerous, but as long as wer’e careful, and treat them with respect, they’re just fine. and it’s totally worth it! I know that my brother isn’t the same as he used to be, but he’s still the same person, and he’s a good person. he loves me, and i can tell. if one of your relatives gets turned, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep them at home. home-care deceased (unless you’re an abusive a#@-hole, and yes, neglecting them counts as abuse) are less violent, more intelligent, and have better coordination than the state wards. and if you keep them at home, there’s no chance of them winding up on one of the work-farms or (shudder) in Iraq (vote yes on the Deceased Rights Act!!!!!!!). in june i toured one of those farms, and it was horrible. if people saw the conditions in those places, they would NEVER send their zoms there.

Sooooo, that’s enough seriousness for today. i’m a HUUUUGE fan of the rocking dead. they played a special version of ‘won’t stay down’ asan encore, and it was awesome. Z, the bassist, had an incredible solo. z is kind of matthew’s role model (i mean, our role model for Matthew). his friends and family took such good care of him that his post-decease mobility is almost as good as when he was living. they were pretty strict about keeping people off the stage, though. the roy’s insurance is pretty dick, i guess. all of the deceased fans had to use the full solid gag-style muzzles. at least they let us in. first ave has a strict no-zombie policy. they use the health-code excuse, which is bulls*@! anyway, the show was really good, and i could tell that matthew was really enjoying it. he was almost dancing a little. he would have been dancing more, if it weren’t for the shackles (vote yes on the Deceased Rights Act!!!)

well, that’s a lot more than i meant to write for this first post, so i’ll stop now. thanks for visiting me, and i hope you come back!

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