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October 25, 2007

Skills you can use: Surviving a zombie attack

In the entirely imaginable event that the dead are reanimated and determined to eat your brains, what can you do to help ensure humanity lives on?

Haven’t a clue, do you?

That’s OK, Max Brooks does, and he’s willing to share his tips for surviving a possible zombie epidemic.

Brooks, the author of The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead, is speaking tomorrow evening at Brown University.

He’ll talk about the zombies place in contemporary media and pop culture in the first event of the Providence Zombie Film Festival.

Brooks’ lecture, at Macmillan 117, on the corner of Thayer and George Streets, will likely be the most academic event of the festival, which will showcase zombie movies – such as Graveyard Alive: a Zombie Nurse in Love – Friday through Halloween at the Cable Car Cinema.

In case you can’t make it, just a few tips from Brooks’ survival guide:

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on!

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 3:58 PM | Permalink

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