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Zombies invade New York City
Dozens of actors dressed as the living dead hit The Big Apple as a promotion for AMC's new series, 'Walking Dead.'
Wed, Oct 27 2010 at 2:45 PM
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First UFOs and now zombies. For New Yorkers, the daily commute has become more odd than usual. 
 
About two dozen people wearing pale makeup and smeared with blood and dirt moaned and staggered down the block outside Madison Square Garden. Some hit Times Square — while another group worked their way across the Brooklyn Bridge, much to the delight/horror/indifference of people on their way to work. 
 
It was all part of an international campaign in 26 cities to promote AMC's new original series, "Walking Dead." Taipei, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles were among the other cities targeted by the flesh-eating monsters. 
 
For those not familiar with this new show, it's based on a series of comic books by Robert Kirkman. In a nutshell, the story revolves around a small town sheriff who gets shot, loses consciousness, and when he wakes, learns that the dead have returned to life and his family is missing. 
 
If that rings a bell, it's because the beginning to the hit zombie movie "28 Days Later" starts in almost exactly the same way. This series, however, will "flesh out" the human side of dealing with a living dead invasion much more deeply than any two-hour film could. 
 
The story takes place in and around Atlanta, and we at the Mother Nature Network are proud to say that our office building is featured in several scenes. How would we do if a zombie outbreak really did happen? We'd like to think quite well — especially with our handy "Top 10 ways to prepare for the total breakdown of society without looking like a (complete) lunatic" guide. 
 
Check out a trailer to "Walking Dead" below: 
 

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anonymous
detail oriented Nov 02 2010 at 12:06 AM

I failed to find anything new in this image compared to any other image in recent years from the mentioned region. There has always been zombies in New York.

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Hogorina Oct 28 2010 at 4:13 PM

Help is needed for my friend who is eighty-five years of age and on his death bed. His dying wish is for his wife to bring his lawyer and his doctor by his death bed, placing each one on opposite sides of the bed. His wife is seventy-nine and cannot possibly handle his request.

In his languishing hours he is saying that Our Lord had died between two thieves and he wanted to do the same. Can someone help with this, for he is sinking fast !

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Hogorina Oct 28 2010 at 10:28 AM
SEVERAL PRESIDENTS HAD DOGS FOR UTILATERIAN CONCEALMENTS. ONE SHOULD NOT HANG THIS PERCEPTION, IF IT WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY EXISTED. HOWEVER, CONSIDER ROOSEVELT AND HITLER. MASOCHISM IS AIMED TOWARDS BOTH OF THESE CHARACTERS. WHY SHOULD IT NOT BE DIRECTED TOWARDS POLITICAL WHORES TOO. ARN’T MANY OF THEM OUR NEIGHBORS? THIS IN IT SELF, IS HARD TO SWALLOW. AWFUL! INJECT YOUR FAVORITE POLITICAL WHORE INTO THE CANINE AFFAIR. We have a mania spreading out through America tied to the craze in owning dogs.
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Searching back in the past to Vienna, Austria in the mid eighteen hundreds, one meets with the identical situation surrounding, the dangers of these animals, as being used for various personalities, for transitional implications of individual anti-social inadequacies. The Late Doctor Sigmund Freud and cohort, Karl Jung, along with Max Nordav, made lengthy studies of split personalities and their relationships with specific canines. In the last several decades hundreds of dog fighting clubs were abundant i America. Psychiatrist long ago persisted that individual masochism was the actual reason for collective canine fighting. Masochism is discovered throughout humanoids as natural outlet for the release of pent up anti-social repressions. In it self, man instinctually harbored aggression as a survival weapon against weaker individuals, to obtain food and shelter. With contemporary existence, a concealed anti-social predisposition to literally satisfy mental instability, through torturing others, or the self, by civilized means, in a legal manner, masochism, self-hatred and getting artificial sexual highs. Considering the love for canines in normal family life is not categorised, as some what mentally suffering from a personality suppression complex syndrome. Self-abasement in being surrounded by one or several barking dogs gradually stamps out any noticeable impediment, distractions that might thwart opposing the subconscious release of hidden sexual inhibitions. Considering the love for canines in normal family life is not categorised, as some what mentally suffering from a personality suppression complex syndrome. Self-abasement in being surrounded by one or several barking dogs gradually stamps out any noticeable impediment, distractions that might thwart opposing the subconscious release of hidden sexual intuitions, that are needed for an artificial high. This sudden release of forbidden sexual infatuation qualms a disturbed mind, reversed back into the real world, until masochism is to be daily released by Hollyweird’s subimatiog flicks. The dog-loving masochists cleaves to have several dogs and their racket for long periods at night, and By indirect satisfaction, to worry neighbors, that brings on self-torture of reverberating masochism.
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Hogorina Oct 27 2010 at 10:05 PM

One needs to visit BROADWAY one time in visiting America's largest ghetto, that traffics in total tourist entrapment. A new name for this flamboyant hang out, of restless souls of an Alice in Wonder Land dream.... this avenue is now known as bed-bug strip.

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Uh Oh Oct 27 2010 at 5:02 PM

Can I have the password please? http://admin1.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-change/photos/top-10-ways-to...

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Michael d'Estries Oct 27 2010 at 5:31 PM

I've removed the password so that you too may survive the zombie apocalypse.

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