Post-Apocalyptic Tales of Puke-amole

I'm happy to announce that I'm back from the land of barf and diarrhea. Am I trying to say that I recently returned from a trip to New Jersey? No, what I'm getting at is that over the weekend, out of nowhere, I either caught a virus or got food poisoning; the end result was that I was puking even more than Barfor, The Vomiting Robot. You know Barfor--he defeats evil with his barf. He's a classic comic book character. Well, even if you don't know who he is, let me just say that he pukes a lot, and this weekend, I was rivaling his puke-itude (although my puke, alas, wasn't defeating evil). The best part of my bout of barf this weekend was that Mother's Day involved lunch at a restaurant that specializes in making guacamole at your table. While this guacamole-making was happening, I realized that vomit and guac have a lot more in common than the fact that they both look weird when presented on a bed of lettuce. If you know what I mean. I don't--I have no idea what I mean. But, it seems right nonetheless.

Mentioning New Jersey reminds me of Bon Jovi, which reminds me of my latest ZombieTastic review, in which I make mention of that Bon Jovi video Runaway. Have you ever seen that video? If you haven't, you can watch it here. My question about the video is this: the girl in the video, the "runaway"--just what exactly is her problem? I mean this not in a "why does she want to run away?" sense, but in a "why is she so fucking evil looking?" kind of way. If you don't want to watch the whole video, this picture sums up quite nicely the intimidating ways of this girl:

YOWZA. I mean, can you imagine living in a home in which, at any given point, you might stumble across a girl that looks that creepy and intense? Frankly, if I were her parents, I would be practically begging her to run away from home, and not just because I wanted Richie Sambora and the boys to write a rocking tune about it.

But, speaking of the Runaway video, I have to ask: when is the post-apocalyptic video motif going to come back into vogue? There was a time when that motif dominated the music video landscape, either in the sense that videos were set in weird, post-apocalyptic wastelands in which spandex and sweet riffs ruled the day (e.g., the aforementioned Runaway, Motley Crue's Looks That Kill, Kiss' Lick It Up, Def Leppard's Foolin'), or the videos featured weird women in crazy outfits and makeup that made them look like they were from "beyond thunderdome" (e.g., Ratt's Round and Round and Ozzy's Shot In the Dark). Where have all of these videos gone? All I'm saying is that I for one would welcome the return of the post-apocalyptic setting for music videos, and not just because of the sexy ladies. I just wanted to state that for the record. I feel it's important to take stands on important issues like this.