Civilization After The End

I am posting my final paper for my Violence and Metaphor class because I think it is some really good shit. Enjoy.
It’s below the fold to not annoy people too much and to not take up my whole front page. (Edit: 10-8-09: It’s now split up into multiple parts -hopefully- to make it easier to [...]

My proposal and teacher comments

Okay, so my proposal for my final paper needs a lot of work. My teacher e-mailed it back to me with some comments and asking me to re-frame the concept to be more about the aesthetic response. She’s right; I’m trying to hard to craft this paper around things I already know. But I am [...]

It’s the season!

It seems to me that far more zombie/disease related films come out during the fall/winter than do in the spring/summer. I’m not exactly sure why, but I would speculate it has something to do with zombie films not being able to stand up to huge summer blockbusters like “The Dark Knight” or other superhero movies [...]

That time of year…

Yes, that’s right. As I write this in the part of September that is edgeing into “late” we can already see the Halloween costumes lining the walls of shops, bags of candy corn piled high, stacks of pumpkins outside of the market.
I enjoy Halloween, I do. I see no reason in beginning festivities a month [...]

The Pandemic Threat Conference

Morning!
I read a post this morning over at the Avian Flu Diary announcing a conference taking place tomorrow from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm EST in Wisconsin on Preparing an Organizational Response to Pandemic. They are also broadcasting the conference over the internet, so I am lucky enough to get to watch.
You have to register, which [...]