Post of the Dead (ZW minus 10)

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How does one make a zombie?


 
This is a great question, and it deserves to be explored at length… over and over again. Everyone should know how to make a zombie. We aren’t going to require any voodoo ingredients. Instead, we’ll need to take a trip to your local liquor store. I’m not usually one for umbrella drinks, but put a few of these in me and I start to stumble around and moan at people.

1 oz Apricot Brandy
1 oz light or Puerto Rican rum
1 oz dark or Jamaican rum
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz lime juice
dashes grenadine
orange juice
1 oz 151

In a cocktail shaker, mix light & dark rums and brandy. Add lemon and lime juice and dashes grenadine. Shake well and strain into a higball glass filled with ice. Fill glass with orange juice leaving room to float 1 oz of 151. Garnish with cherry, orange slice, pinapple wedge.

Post of the Dead (ZW minus 24)

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For me, zombies bring to mind the flesh eating monsters of modern horror, but the walking dead have terrified the living in superstition for centuries. Accounts of the living dead are most notable in Haitian Voodoo. This variety of zombie is the subject of the 1932 film White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi. Lugosi’s character, Murder Legendre (which might be the coolest name ever), uses voodoo to lure a woman away from her fiance, but his plan backfires and she ends up a mindless automaton. The entire thing is steeped in over acting, but I feel it makes this movie even more entertaining. Watch it with friends and drink every time Murder looks shifty eyed.

It should also be noted that Lugosi reportedly expressed regret for taking this part  for only $800, since it did quite well in theaters.

Undeadly yours,

Zed