Ashtoberfest: Zombie walk dead for 2013 in Asheville – Asheville Citizen

Slow-walking eaters love their fast food.

My favorite moment from my time at the fifth-annual Ashtoberfest Zombie Walk on Saturday was when I encountered the undead hordes at the Biltmore Square Mall food court.

It’s like Chick-fil-A had brain on the menu.

Of course, the walking dead were ordering waffle fries and nuggets, just like hungry, unsuspecting mall patrons who left the mall with more than their new bedsheets from Dillard’s.

But that was what made it so funny: I caught these crazed cannibals acting like the folks cast as zombie bait in the movies.

It was the type of quiet scene that really brought the festival to life for me. I collected all these moments that if you just removed all the fake blood, it would be like any other Saturday night at the mall. Teenage girls giggling and gossiping, flirting with unsure boys. Ladies touching up their hair and makeup in the bathroom mirror.

These unplanned, very human moments, lightened the event’s dark undead theme. It’s truly just another excuse to build community and celebrate all the frivolous fun that separates life from death.

There was also a lot of joy in the planned aspects of the first-time festival — the walk has

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