Thank you for your reply. As we stated in our comment at Huffington Post, we do not mean to cast aspersions. Our goal is merely to educate and inform the general public regarding the hurtful phrases and attitudes that Zombies must so often endure. Your participation in the Zombie Rights marches this weekend encourages us that our message is being heard by the public at large, and we applaud it.

Your comments about schools we find a bit discouraging, since many Zombies do find employment in such institutions (Lunch Ladies, Spirt Shop Managers, Wrestling Coaches…). We don not despair however, it simply means we have more work to do.

(Personally, I feel that a Zombie standing at the head of a class chanting “Braaaaaaaiiiiinnnnsssss” can only reinforce the value of education in our youth.)

Can you take the next step, and transition from support to advocacy? We cannot achieve our goals of Vital/Post-Vital integration without public figures such as yourself acting as proponents for the cause.

Remember, inside every living person is a dead one waiting to get out.

Thanks for all you can do.

PS – We have posted our musings concerning Mummies and Vampires, but are unwilling to be abusive – solidarity and all.

First of all, let me express my excitement that the site is no longer idle. After nearly four years of inactivity, your organization has risen again with an unquenchable, insatiable urge to consume and devour hatred and inequality.

And I salute you. Fight the chainsaw of prejudice. Swarm over the sawed-off shotgun of oppression.

But to the point: I had no intention of slighting you or your fine organization with my Huffington Post blog entry. My goal with the piece was to simply recount the facts related to media coverage of the zombie apocalypse.

If any were offended by my decision to use “the language of the streets” with such phrases as undead, menace, voudoun monsters and reanimated cannibals, I apologize.

I do feel a need to correct you on one small detail, however. The HuffPo post wasn’t, as you suggest, my response to the weekend’s Zombie Rights marches.

This was my response to the weekend’s Zombie Rights marches: http://gettingstrange.windycitizen.com/2009/04/27/making-an-ass-of-myself-at-the-zombie-pub-crawl

In short, I meant no slight against you and your unde- um … post-vital brethren. Some of my best friends are zombies, although I wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one and I don’t think you should be teaching in our schools.

But my point is I don’t have any malice against you and your kind for the post-lifestyle choice you have made. I also don’t have a daughter.

All the best to you and your fine organization. Let’s move past this. Like I always say, live and let li- … uh … crap.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Paul Dailing

P.S. Now vampires, they’re A-holes. Mummies too. Dusty Egyptian bastards.