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BLITEOTW 2009: They Just Keep Coming

An attractive shotgun-wielding zombie hunter is visibly annoyed by three years of zombie apocalypses.

Tomorrow heralds the return of a peculiar annual tradition that just won’t die: Blog Like its the End of the World 2009. Over two years ago, Steve Wilson started promoting an unusual idea of his that involved a global zombie pandemic that swept the globe on June 13th, midnight local time, to be acted out exclusively on blogs all over the world. It was wildly popular, and rightly so, but why do the zombies keep coming?

After two years of fighting zombies here in and around our nation’s capitol, I’ve taken steps to avoid the zombie jamboree that’s set to begin in a few hours time. These steps are magical in nature and arise from my complete and utter boredom of what will certainly be a “zombie threepeat”, as opposed to a glorious alien invasion, demonic uprising, robot rampage, or some other non-ambulatory-deceased catastrophe.

Zombies are so 2007.

Update: the closest thing to a compendium seems to be the BLITEOTW community at LiveJounal.

Written by in June of 2009. Last edited September 2014.

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Comments

  • Diana - June 13th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Since I’m one of the few that have decided to make mine a continuing plotline, I decided to make it a trilogy and close off this year. If there’s a new monster/invading threat, however, I’ll be glad to take on the new(?) challenge next year!

  • Amoureuse - July 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 am

    what happened with those invading zombies ? No news for now ?

  • Jeff - July 9th, 2009 at 6:44 am

    They came, they left… same ol’ same ol’. Check the links above for all the lurid details. 🙂

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