Mira Grant author of best selling poetry is really zombie nerd and author. She joined the Sword and Laser podcast for a fun filled exploration of her career as a two genre author.
June 20, 2012
June 19, 2012
HUNGER By Megan Pryor
Zombie Fiction for Snooki and Goldman Sachs,
Zombies saved the economy, starting with reality television. We did for mass media what porn did for the Internet. And then there were the merchandise tie-ins, the spin-off shows, the novel adaptions, the signings, the conventions, and the interviews.
Read the rest here:
HUNGER By Megan Pryor
Zombies saved the economy, starting with reality television. We did for mass media what porn did for the Internet. And then there were the merchandise tie-ins, the spin-off shows, the novel adaptions, the signings, the conventions, and the interviews.
Read the rest here:
HUNGER By Megan Pryor
June 16, 2012
Daryl Dixon attending Louisville Comic Con
June 29th - July 1st
Featuring Bruce Campbell and Norman Reedus
A convention within a convention within a convention. What started out as one of the top Horror FilmFestivals in the country has now grown into one of the biggest shows of it's type. Consisting of MID AMERICA COMICCON, FANDOMFEST AND FRIGHT NIGHT HORROR WEEKEND AND FILM FESTIVAL, Fandomfest is one of the Largest Multi-Genre Conventions in the region. Whether you are a fan of Movies, Comic Books, Gaming, Horror, Anime, Monster Classics, Collecting Autographs to Books, Filmmaking, Literary, Arts, Makeup, Cosplay and much more then Welcome to .the NEW World of Fandom. Where all things POP Culture Collide.
June 15, 2012
Prometheus, Stupid by Jeff Foxworthy Standards
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| $1 Trillion for Windows 7 in 2093? Government Contracts. |
Moments of Prometheus Crew stupidity:
- PHD in Geology and Geography getting lost despite making the master map.
- PHD in Biology responds to aggressive snake with a vagina for a face by trying to pet it.
- The crew splitting up within hours of landing on an hostile planet.
- The crew on the ship not bothering to monitor the two stranded team members.
- The ship's crew not monitoring local weather activity at regular intervals.
- Waking up the 2000 year old 10 foot tall sleeping giant and asking a stupidly selfish question straight off without even a "Howdy, want some juice?"
- The captain for opening the ramp for "Fifield". Prometheus had cameras for the ramp. The captain could quite clearly see that something wasn't right.
- Shaw making a big speech about how the expedition was for science, and insisting no weapons should be taken into the really big scary ancient building on a strange planet 3 trillion miles from home.
- Holloway covering up his illness and the crew for trying to let him back onboard.
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| "We need a bigger boat" |
- Being completely oblivious to David's actions. Yeah, it's ok they missed him setting off the ghost-like images, but how did they not notice him crouching over that canister? Plus, the crew up in the ship was supposedly monitoring his cameras.
- Playing with an alien head while wearing only a face mask, some latex gloves, and a hair net thing. and...
- Not one single orbital pass to map the planet.
- Not one Probe or Orbiter to test the atmosphere.
- The Captain of the ship ceding complete control to a Corporate VP.
- No government involvement at all whatsoever in the largest deep space exploration to date?
- No First Contact protocols or containment procedures.
- Sticking the 2000 year old, amazingly well preserved, over size head with a cattle prod and shocking it. Kind of like a Jeff Foxworthy poke it with a stick in the south joke.
- Not one fly by to examine the outside of the facility.
- Surgical Pod sophisticated enough to do super fast advanced surgical procedures not be programmed to work on females.
- Skin tight spacesuits that Vickers can put on, seal and lock in less than thirty seconds while hyperventilating.
- Fifield smokes pot in his helmet.
- Ford thinks 3% of CO will kill you in a matter of minutes.
- The captain goes to bang Vickers while his men are stranded outside of the ship and there is a "ping" indicating a lifeform.
- The pilot and copilot are Kamikaze Power Rangers.
- Vickers can't run to the left.
- Holloway takes his helmet off. Later after people are dead and sick the whole crew takes them off yet again.
- Not one Hazmat suit in the medical bay for the Head Stick poking incident but full blown 1940s style iron man suits to put the tiny drugged pregnant lady into bed?
- Token guy no 1 listens to Shaw when she says not to carry a gun.
- Token guy no 2 just stares at spiderlike zombie Fiefield.
- Token guys 3,4,5,6... generally just stand there.
Is that enough for a cinematic disaster?
NOPE..........
$1 Trillion and eighty years can buy an Aircraft Carrier sized Interstellar Ion Drive Spaceship equipped with hypersleep beds, a dream communication system, and self aware AI grade human looking androids BUT you don't get UAVs, seat belts or Weapons.
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| Ask about our upgrade program!!! |
BTW, Since you forgot to upgrade to the XLT package your away team gets to ride into the most important discovery in human history on the back of an open air dune buggy that any Walmart sells for $300.
June 14, 2012
Greece begins Euro-Zombie Preparations
According to CNBC Greeks have been withdrawing €800m a day from the banks. They are stocking up on pasta and canned goods in anticipation of nothing good coming of the elections slated to be held this Sunday.
Meanwhile in Spain, it is the same thing just in a different language. While the Dutch parliament has voted for a Euro zone deal to lend up to €100bn to Spain it was a close call. Labor MP Ronald Plasterk said: " I want to see pain. It cannot be the case that banks are restructured and people walk out whistling. I want shareholders to bleed, I want a ban on bonuses."
This from Daniel Hannan, who is MEP for South East England.said, "The only impact of this bailout has been to indebt every Spanish household with a further €15,000 that they didn't have last week. Europe is giving itself a transfusion... it's taking blood from one arm and pumping it into the other arm. "
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE: http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/the-week-that-was/2012/jun/13/zombie-banking/
June 13, 2012
June 12, 2012
Zombies: A Living History
Courtesy of the History Channel. This is a forgotten educational documentary on the true nature of the zombie menace.
June 10, 2012
May 31, 2012
' Bath Salts' Triggering Zombie Rages?
'Miami Cannibal' Victim still alive as his face was eaten.
- Rudy Eugene, 31, tore into victim's face with his teeth and growled Police believe he may have taken 'bath salts,' a potent new drug
- Images have been released of Ronald Poppo, 65, recovering in Miami hospital75 per cent of victim's face chewed off in 'some of the most horrific injuries staff have ever encountered'
- Was still conscious when he was stretchered off to hospitalInvestigators trying to piece together last hours of Eugene's life
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