With visions of zombies dancing in their heads
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 30, 2007
The second annual installment of Zombie Kickball — held on the Eastern Prom this past Sunday — was a great success. Zombies of all stripes and unnatural deaths made it — well over fifty of them, aged 5-60 — gathered at Carter Field for the game. ZKII featured live music from the Toughcats (in disguise as the Zombiecats) with a few grunting extras as backup, and reincarnations of loads of local scenesters — Chriss Sutherland (Threads), Micah Blue Smaldone, Jon Courtney and Nat May of SPACE, Jake Chamberlain (Phantom Buffalo), Sammie Warren (The 500s), Portland air-guitar champ McNallica, Justin Alfond of the League of Young Voters (can zombies vote?), and even Shenna Bellows of the Maine Civil Liberties Union.
Bellows’s purview apparently doesn’t reach to zombies, as the event was put to an end a bit early due to angry Little League parents who didn’t want anyone else to have fun on their field (a disturbing trend in this town of late). But there was plenty of time to squeeze in a good game. I can’t remember if the “Uuggghhhs” or “Arrrrgggs” won. Perhaps my brain was eaten without me noticing.
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