Tag: zombies

I’ll be on the B-Cast at around 5:30 today.

Link here.

Mind you, it’s me – so it’ll be about zombies. On the other hand, I might be able to sneak a comment or two in about this OfA desperate rally at the fallback point conference call.  Goodness knows it’s not really a subject change.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

British city council occult disaster, T-minus N days and counting.

Hi, Exeter city council! When the inhuman revenants come boiling out of the sewers to feast upon the defenseless souls of the living, and the countryside is bubbling and withering under the relentless onslaught of Hell on Earth – and if one of your number is actually cruising the Internet at that moment instead of doing something useful, like looking for an actual working gun* – well.  Let me warn you:  this idea?

Catacombs could house flu victims

Old underground burial chambers in a Devon city could be used to store the bodies of swine flu victims if the outbreak worsens, a council has said.

Yeah. Bad idea. That’s not just asking for it; that was jumping up and down and begging to be picked for the opening act of the Apocalypse. I’m surprised that you didn’t publicly mock [insert standard, trendy polytheistic deity here] and shut down a meaningless ritual that’s been performed yearly since the Middle Ages.

*Admittedly, the lack of guns made Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later somewhat more riveting.

Moe Lane: Barely Literate!

…At least, that’s what I’m interpreting from Liber Ex Machina‘s sidebar, which has this icon:

moe-lane-ad

…which is, by the way, better art than I can manage myself on my own. Anyway, feel free to hit the tip jar to commemorate my apotheosis*:

Although, honestly? At the moment, it’d probably go towards a movie ticket to go see UP while I still can. Or maybe grabbing The Color of Magic when it comes out in two weeks on DVD.

Moe Lane

PS: As LeM wrote, speaking of zombies… if reports are true, the author of President Evil loses more points for the Bush thing than he gains for the Palin thing, which is frankly a shame.

AoSHQ & TAP do zombie posts.

Which you all know that I can’t resist commenting on.  TAP’s Paul Waldman piece is here; Ace of Spades HQ’s Open Blog (Mætenloch) piece is here.  Let’s get this out of the way: I agree with AoSHQ that Waldman’s done his homework, but I have to take major exception with his statement:

There are no highbrow zombie movies or novels, and admitting you love them amounts to a declaration that your tastes are unrefined.

It will all depend on how you define ‘highbrow’ – but I think that The Serpent And The Rainbow would qualify, as would 28 Days Later.  Admittedly, the first is more Afro-Caribbean than the standard zombie flick, and the second breaks a lot of the conventions, so I may be on thinner ice than I like – but if Waldman can include The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in his list, then I can use these two*.  As to whether zombie films default liberal or conservative: well.  They default to satirical, in my opinion; and you don’t want to end up getting too overtly partisan there.  If you do, you end up making movies like Homecoming, which I cruelly mocked at the time (without even seeing**) as an inept attempt to use dead soldiers as mouthpieces for the antiwar movement (given that the living ones loudly declined the ‘honor’). There’s a lesson there, really.

That being said: I may pick up Revenge of the Zombies at some point.

Moe Lane

*And, of course, there’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! … which pushes the definition of ‘highbrow’ almost but not quite to the breaking point. And then there’s World War Z, which was in my opinion very sophisticated.  It’s not all that easy to do an authentic-sounding oral history book.

**Still haven’t, in fact.

Today’s obligatory “Duelling Zombies” post.

First off, we have Zombie Jamboree:


Rockapella

…via Tommy Christopher. Odd fact #1: I banned him from RedState once. Odd fact #2: I follow him on Twitter, and vice versa. Odd fact #3: this is, yes, kind of contradictory; but as they say, business is business. Besides, this isn’t a political post.

Anyway, in answer to that I have this.


Jonathan Coulton

Because, well, any excuse to play that one is a good one.

Moe Lane

PS: Watching people conga to Zombie Jamboree may not be the most surreal experience out there, but it’s definitely weird.

I believe Woody Harrelson.

This sort of thing happens to me all the time.

Woody Harrelson claims he mistook photographer for zombie

CNN) — Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.

The TMZ photographer filed a complaint with police claiming the actor damaged his camera and pushed him in the face at La Guardia Airport, according to an airport spokesman.

Although I have to criticize the technique. Even if you’re wearing gloves: never, ever, ever push a zombie in the face. That’s just an invitation to having your hand gnawed, which will of course lead to infection, death, and reanimation as one of the walking dead. I know that people say that cutting off the extremity in time can prevent that, but that’s a million-to-one shot, and it’s such an avoidable mistake.

Clearly Mr. Harrelson needs to catch up on his technical reading.