Zombies and Knitting
Google pointed me toward an article supposedly about the nexus of Zombies and knitting recently, and sadly, it wasn’t about a circle of Zombies who knitted scarves for orphans as a hobby, or what not. Instead it’s about a sort of club/get-together for people who like to knit, named in part after Zombieland, the odious ‘horror-comedy’ film whose star we recently upstaged with our support for the 1 Second Film.
Take that, Mr. Harrelson.
At any rate, in spite of their relative enthusiasm for one of the worst and most evil movies of our age, there’s not a whole lot to get hung up about with these ‘Zombie Prom Date Knitters’. They seem peaceable enough and even donate some of their knit(ted?) projects to charity:
The group also does a lot of charity knitting, and has adopted a stretch along Interstate 94, near Augusta, through the Michigan Department of Transportation.
So they’re harmless enough. Perhaps with a bit of outreach they could be persuaded to forswear the violent comedic hijinks of Zombieland in favor of knitting Zombies some warm mittens. Cold weather can be hard on Zombies, after all.
What really gets me is the Anti-Zombie tone the ‘journalist’ who wrote the piece crudely applies to the overall peaceful narrative. Stuff like this opening line, for example:
EAST LEROY — Knitters today may ponder a question their grandmothers never did: Do I use this needle to knit or to kill a zombie?
Where does that come from, anyway? The Zombie Prom Date Knitters don’t kill Zombies, at least if this article is any indication. At worst they watch Anti-Zombie movies for fun, and while we don’t approve of that, it’s far better than crude Living Supremacist pogroms in the street.
I guess for some people it just isn’t a story about Zombies unless it’s got deplorable mayhem in it somewhere, eh, Andy Fitzpatrick?
The ZRC can give a pass to these yarn enthusiasts, but Mr. Fitzpatrick? I think we can officially condemn him.
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