Party Time!!

by Iain Lowson

Everyone in the world has now linked to a version of this story. I'm sure there's more to it, as the Daily Mail (and everyone else) is sensationalising very little actual detail.

Here's the story

However, the actual story isn't what I completely love about this.

 Everyone I know, and everyone they know, is positively celebrating the fact that the Zombie Apocalypse has begun! I mean, forget the Jubilee. Sod the Olympics. This is the big happy community event of 2012. The really great thing about it is that the street parties will pretty much organise themselves. There will be copious consumption amidst bright splashes of colour, with the enthusiastic shrieks of people really getting into the spirit of the thing. What's not to love?!

Previously little more than strangers who lived beside each other, whole neighbourhoods will come together with a single common goal in mind (one way or another). Barriers between groups and individuals - be they ethnic, social, gender-based, or sexuality-based - will crumble, no matter how entrenched they were before. People's hearts will go out to each other.

People of all faiths will be united at last. They will cry out to their patron deities over and over again, before joining the great crowds that gently, slowly, inexorably absorb everyone - and all without a single tweet, Facebook link, or advertising jingle needed.

Banking crisis? Pah! Eurozone scares? Pfft! Recession? Hah! This big event provides jobs for all, and won't need a £12 billion budget to bring everyone together. I for one am looking forward to the rolling out (or shuffling out, if you prefer) of the Big ZA.

See you at the party!!