Show Some for the Zombies, or Zombies Have To Eat Too

So we know fully that vampires have jumped the broadcast TV shark and that zombies are the New Cool, so this Halloween Cafe Drake is eating up (pun absolutely intended) IFC Channel's Brit export, The Dead Set. So far the first of 5 episodes have been shockingly shocking and creepy, with the living dead gnawing their way through a politically divided United Kingdom. Best of all, the mini-series takes deep potshots at reality TV (a studio producing brainless fodder such as Big Brother 10 is the first invaded and killed/zombified) and a current economic and political  climate that seems to suggest the poor are better off dead.We're also excited to see if the always impressive AMC can deliver a post- Mad Men/Breaking Bad hit with their zombie series The Walking Dead premiering Halloween evening.

Zombies are represented yet again in an event celebrating two of our favorite things at Cafe Drake, the NYC Public Library system and Offal - The Zombie March to Save the Libraries! Details below courtesy of Urban Librarians Unite:

You thought the fight for library budgets were done until next year? Nope! The midyear budget adjustment will result in a projected further cut of 5.4% to NYC library budgets. These new cuts will result in even less service hours and MORE LAYOFFS. We've already lost Saturday Service in most of the city. So those working parents taking their kids to the library on the weekend? Tough, not open. Can't return your books during the w...eek because you work 60 hours just to live? Tough, closed on the weekend. What does any of this have to do with zombies? Well, without libraries there are no brains, and zombies need to eat brains to live. So New York's zombie librarians will be walking across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall this Halloween to protest these drastic cuts to their food supply. Meet us in the circle at the west end of Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, next to the High Street A, C Station. Dress in your Librarian Zombie best, and come help us bring attention to the continuing cuts to the libraries, and the elimination of the yummiest brains in the city, those of Library Users.