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 [...]

“Diseases desperate”

“———–diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.”
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene III
Thanks to Pamela for sending this along and keeping me in line. I have good intentions with this silly thing, but of course we all know where that road leads. I’m going to take a bit of advice from my Violence and [...]

“In the end, it’s never what you worry about that gets you.”

Thank you to Jettboy for the friendly prodding. Sometimes I need a little harrassment to get off my butt and do this damn thing.
So here goes…probably nothing. (I’m still shaking the dust off my writing skills…so bear with me).
A few quotes from my most recent read (Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk):
“‘In a city with a limited [...]

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 [...]

Abandoning the Work

The author of the A Pandemic Chronicle wrote a post last night about the demand for 100% accuracy in any crisis. She points out that it is improbable for all workers and aide required to be there in a crisis could provide 100% of anything if they are concerned about their own family and friends, [...]

Cabin Fever, Gustav, Vaccines, and other long overdue thoughts

Sorry, sorry, sorry! Long time, no write. Here are some random thoughts:
I thought about the movie Cabin Fever the other night for some reason. I was about to fall asleep and I thought about that movie…and then couldn’t sleep. Go figure. The virus was in the water, but there was also blood, and disintegrating skin, [...]