Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Nate Baker, who blogs about storytelling and the side streets of Nashville. Nate also came up with the phrase “Urban Art Crawl,” so he owns a tiny bit of our souls. He has his own bocce ball set and isn’t afraid to use it.

Last week while waiting for the symphony to start, the conversation naturally turned to zombies.

My friends and I decided TPAC was not a great place to ward off zombies. Too many entrance points, but at least the musicians could easily be trained as archers.

So if not TPAC, where?

I asked around Twitter and we have a working list. So far the General Jackson Showboat and Yazoo Brewery are in the lead for being the first recipient of “The Dixie Downturn Best Place in Downtown Nashville to Get Stuck During a Zombie Uprising” award.

Please put in your two cents so we’re finally organized if anything zombie-related goes down over the coming year. Vote now, before it’s too late (after the cut):

But really, I just wanted an excuse to design a totally sweet plague—I mean plaque for the winner.

// Photo by Chris Wage. Oh and some premise for the zombie question. They’d be The Walking Dead style zombies, as in cool with light, slow, smartish, and attracted to noise and flesh smell. Ok, no more excuses. Where do we go if it goes down?