Anyone else afraid of zombies??

Just the concept alone is bone-chilling to me. Indeed, such ghoulish creatures who return from death hungry for blood and flesh is not real, which is a major plus, but why even pose such an unrealitic question. Lets just say I'm overly cautious...

Seems that I've been interested in such wild morrib lore since I was a child, recalling some my first nightmares revolving around the walking dead. In a strange way, its one of those nightmares that ranks very high on worst possible scenarios coming true... definently much higher than free-falling to my doom, only to wake up to falling off my couch. Point is, I had to say something to someone about the recent happenings of the Swine Flu and this book I just finished reading. Max Brooks, this writer who obsesses over zombies just as much as any doomsday fanatic (like myself) published a story titled, World War Z, back in 2007. His past works from what I know mostly relate to zombie fiction; yet, his real winning uppercut comes in the form of how he wonderfully constructs such detailed and concise imaginary information and happenings solely based off "how would I feel" writing.
In WWZ (which is a work of fiction), he explores the world as himself (a niche writer), who desires to document a unfiltered global view of the zombie apocolypse that nearly destroyed the human race. Kind of cheesy and cliche, but the way he writes such detailed experiences for people all across the globe, farmers and soldiers alike, its memorable and frightening all in one.

The contents page reads like this: Introduction, Warnings, Blame, The Great Panic, Turning The Tide, Home Front USA, Around The World And Above, Total War, Good-Byes, and then Acknowledgments. That doesn't really mean anything in particular, but it does lead to why I even mention the terrible Swine Flu craze that seems to be the new "fear of the month". Just that little smart-@ss comment of mine perfectly summerizes an entire chapter of WWZ. Ignorance! Its more than a American thing... we as humans seem to feel invincible until the very thing we were warned about bites us on the hand. All zombie puns aside.
Flip on the news and I'm sure you'll hear something about this Swine Flu or the pandemic potential its building up. Even Jay Leno made a funny about the spreading madness, and I don't how to take that being the paranoid madman that I am. No doubt, wearing a doctor mask and avoiding the general public would constitute me as a full-fledged doomsday believer; but looking around at how the fear is secretly swelling up in people (even in MN, smack dap between NY and MEX), I'm even beginning to hear people openingly conversate about this stuff... then they brush it off...

Just like in WWZ!!

I'm not here to tell everyone to be more afraid than they could already be. Simply because this unknown leads to that unknown and you might be better off preparing unknowingly and such and such doesn't sound very fun... live life, be healthy, and don't depend on others to keep you completely safe and sane. I really hope this Swine Flu stuff gets under control in the next few months, because summer time is right around the corner, and we don't need a nation wide Summer of Sam type of scenario playing out. People are already crazy... having them sick AND crazy is too scary of a thought for a nut-job like myself. On a positive note, I look forward to hearing what everyone thinks of the new Wolverine movie coming out this weekend. I'll reserve my criticism for a later rant, in the mean time, the game is the ultimate salvation for this comic-book debacal in my eyes. All is well none the less... the month of May altogether is bound for some good times in entertainment, so I'll definitely be rattling on about that in the coming days ahead