Tomorrow at 6PM, George A Romero will be at Yonge and Dundas Square to welcome the "Special Director's Cut Edition" of the Toronto Zombie Walk, and to introduce a free screening of his original zombie classic/masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead.

More important than that though, the event is to celebrate the fact that Mr. Romero after years of living in Toronto has finally got his hands (through legal or illegal means, I can't verify) on a Canadian Citizenship card!  Isn't that crazies? (sic, and I'm sorry for that)

To commemorate the event and to welcome him to Canada officially, an award (pictured left) will be presented to Mr. Romero.  The text engraved on the base went through many drafts and many discarded suggestions.  The final inscription is below, but personally I think that my ignored (sniffles) suggestion would have looked much better below the bloody zombie hj that rests atop it.

George keep our land gory and diseased.
O Canada, we stand on guard for zombies.
- O Canada (revised)
TIFF and the Toronto Zombie Walk congratulate longtime Torontonian, George A. Romero on becoming a Canadian citizen.
Presented on September 12th, 2009.

Here's what made the award in the end.  It's okay, I guesssss.

And don't forget that the North American Premiere of GEORGE A ROMERO'S SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD is later that night at... When else? Midnight.