The Post Apocalypse Survival Plan

So, Sara and I have been watching " The Walking Dead" a lot lately. Having her around while watching it, I am noticing a bunch of inaccuracies in the program. Not just technical incontinuities but in the survival methods of the characters, as well. Her and I both have been fans of the undead for awhile, anyway. We both have garnered a pretty little book collection on the matter, and we both have (of course) our respective copies of "The Zombie Survival Guide."

So needless to say while watching the show, the subject of our usefulness arose. After examples on my living room floor about how slow we were, we concluded that we could not, in our present states survive very long in the event of a nightmare scenario. So something that I am calling The Post Apocalypse Survival Plan was born...well technically, it's still in labor. But the bitch is crowning, I can feel it.

We are starting out small. Running. Night running, to be precise. Well walking, then running. Hopefully there will be other things in the future and we stick to this first thing. We want to be the Sarah Connor of the zombie world. We want to be Buffy without all the whiny self-importance.

I am not sure how far this will go or what it will turn into, but I will update it here. There are a lot of things I would have like to have learned in the future, anyway. Now I have an excuse to get fit, look hot, and be a chick you don't want to fuck with. Here is an adapted list Sara found over at "The Post Apocalyptic Workout" blog. Her list was good, but certain things on it I can't be bothered with to learn. For example, CPR. Zombie Apocalypse+CPR= fuck all that shit. And Midwifery. Don't give a shit. No pregnant women allowed in my survival party. And if they are, I consider them fodder. *cue evil laughter*.  So here are some of the things I want to learn:

• Losing weight (smaller = faster and less nummy human flesh to rip into)
• Strength training (lifting my body weight up and weapon weilding)
• Camp fire building and cooking
• Learn how to ride a bike/motorcycle
• Navigation without a map
• Learn how to drive a manual 
• Shooting/gun safety/maintenance
• Hunting and fishing
• traversing rocky terrain/rock climbing
• Archery/crossbow skills
• Horseback riding
• Self-defense (Hand to hand combat)
• Shelter building
• learning how to purify water
• knives/throwing/safety/tactics

I see these things as entirely useful skills to have, is not entirely essential if I want to survive Z-Day. So more research will be done, and we will beginning our long (hopefully) journey to self-sufficiency. More updates laterz.

Bonus: fun linkage!

http://zombiefit.org/
http://www.zombieworkout.com/ 
http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide
http://www.zombiehub.com/zombie-survival-kit.html

The Walking Dead Season 2

There have been a bunch of squee worthy sneak peeks coming out recently regarding season two of "The Walking Dead". The show had it's panel today at Comic-Con and revealed an awesome preview into what's going to be happening for the characters next season. Allies, secrets, separations, new characters, and of course enough zombietastic action to make your puny mortal head spin. 


Here's a rundown of the footage and photos that have been released thus far:



Pretty intense shit, right? There will be at least two new characters I can see from the preview.   One being this guy:

And the other being this girl right here:

Now bare in mind, I am one of the assholes who never read the graphic novels so I have no frame of reference. But these two people seem to live together in a farm house of some kind. The man looks familiar to me. Matt said he was some dude in "Judge Dredd" but I couldn't find anyone who looked like him. And I can't be bothered to watch any Stallone movie other than "Demolition Man". So if anyone knows this actors name, let me know.


The next one is an actual scene from season 2 where Rick Grimes bashes a couple of baddies heads in with a big fucking rock-caveman style:

This clip begs the question as to why he's alone in the woods killing zombies with only a fucking rock to his name...hmm.


Then there are the screenshots that were released recently revealed exclusively to different media outlets. The first of which is from THR. It shows Lori Grimes shushing Carol as they hide under the cars on the clogged highway from the zombie hoard.

Bitch, be cool!

The next one is from MTV. Norman "sexy ass" Reedus heads up the front of a traveling party, bad ass crossbow in hand.

I love me some Norman Reedus

The final screepcap comes from The Los Angeles Times. It appears the fucking RV broke down again and everyone is just standing around looking dramatically in different directions. It really doesn't matter at this point, though. Anyone who knows anything knows that you don't take a fucking camper on a highway after a zombie apocalypse....rookies.

Then there is the promo poster. The gang are on top of that fucking RV, trapped by a smelly rotting hoard.

The walking dead premiers October 16th on AMC at 9pm. Don't shit yourself in excitement, please.