On Saturday evening Jake and I went down to the Washington Monument to look at zombies. It was the second annual DC Zombie Lurch on the National Mall, a sort of flash mob of kids playing undead for the evening. I’d seen pictures of other lurches in cities like Toronto and Seattle on Flickr and I was hoping to see an army of terrifying zombies slowly coursing among the monuments and flags.

We ended up being underwhelmed by the straggly group of 20+ zombies (and an undead rabbit) that showed up for the lurch. As Jake said, looking over the motley crowd as they danced to Michael Jackson’s Thriller: “Well, DC certainly isn’t San Francisco.”


A zombie bride; she also held a sign reading “The Undead Rule.” Click to see the other pictures.

We did have to laugh at the various chants the zombie wrangler came up with for the undead crowd:

Call: “What do we want?”
Response: “BRAINS!”
C: “When do we want it?”
R: “BRAINS!!!”

C: "I don’t know but I’ve been told…"
R: "BRAINS!"

C: "Marco!"
R: "BRAINS!"