Ha. Zombies: the world’s best misdirection play.

Good luck getting rid of the hoard wandering around your comments section, T.

My first year in college, a friend with a talent for devious drinks threw a party and whipped up a batch of Zombies. It’s a punch made with light rum, dark rum, benedictine, lime juice and grenadine–75% 80-proof liquor, and it tastes like Hawaiian Punch. There were many people in the bathroom stalls that night, and many walking dead the next morning.

From the great Scott Ostler:

Maybe it just seems like Broncos coach John Fox is secretly hoping Tim Tebow falls on his face, to shut up those pesky Denver fans. You’ll know something is up if Fox sends in six consecutive naked bootlegs.

I think that qualifies as a zombie QB contribution, no?

Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?

I think Zombies are the scariest horror characters. Isn’t Frankenstein’s monster essentially a zombie? I was even terrified of Sean of the Dead, and that’s meant to be a funny zombie flick.

And Dick Cheney. He’s the scariest of them all.

Stakeland is a film as moving as The Road, but with zombies and, surprisingly, less cannibalism.

I’m sick and tired of zombies, I must admit. I mean, holy cripes, 28 Days Later is almost a decade old! New monsters, plz.

“New monsters, plz.” You must’ve missed the Republican debates until now, huh?

28 Days Later is one of the rare sequels that’s infinitely better than the original, at least partly because it doesn’t have Sandra Bullock in it.

Of course, there’s always everyone’s favorite rom-zom-com, Shaun of the Dead.

Zombie Highway rocks!

Best zombie movie ever.

“Dead Set” – made for the BBC a few years ago. In-CREDIBLE. Better than 28 Days. Better than “The Walking Dead.” Even better than the Dawn of the Dead 2004 remake.

See http://www.amazon.com/Part-1/dp/B00498XP1K/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1318807576&sr=1-1

Thank me later! :)

Commissar

The only episode of The Walking Dead I thought was any good was the pilot epi. The opening scenes were terrific, eerie, scary, thought-provoking. After that it was the usual boring gorefest.

I had hoped for something that might have combined the visual effects of Life After People only with a handful of people and zombies. But no such luck.

In the horror genre, I am enjoying American Horror Story so far (except for Dylan McDermott who chews up the scenery).

How about puppies?

After he [darabont] was sent packing, he returned to give some final notes.

Greetings from Hollywood.

See, that’s a pro there, boys and girls. We don’t burn bridges, and we sure as hell don’t expect to settle in anywhere for long.

Incidentally, my apologies, Tom, for driving your comments into the hundreds with my many wordy and contentious comments on the previous post. Don’t know what got into me.

It just made me so mad. :-)

The end of season one of WD was pretty terrible. I’m worried season two might be just as awful.

But we’ll always have Game of Thrones.

I just finished reading them. I admire your stamina. You should bottle it and sell it as Viagra.

Sadly, Ohitler just announced he’s sending troops into Georgia to kill these undead, many of whom are evangelical christians.

Just don’t sell it to those “in my 3 score and 7 year” fucksticks populating fdl central command. The last thing that jolly reach-around circle jerk party needs is a bag of dolphin-waxin’ goodies, especially the annoying fuck who congratulates himself on how superb he thinks his own diaries are….

I haven’t read it, but Rise Again is supposed to be a good zombie book. No, not a book about “good” zombies.

I like zombie literature, but I never really liked Walking Dead (the TV series, I never read the comics). It seemed to me to be just too unrelentingly grim … like JG Ballard with dead people. Which is weird, cuz I like Ballard. But it seems it was just loaded with too many emotional gut shots without anything behind them, except for evoking a feeling that you just got hit with an emotional cheap shot. I think it’s well done, but I never got a sense of there being any more to it than just putting the viewer through a wringer. Unlike the Romero movies, which were fun … or Shaun of the Dead, etc.

P.S. I’ll ride the drone like Slim Pickens did in Dr. Strangelove, if it will move this plan forward. I think I even have a cowboy hat somewhere.

Sorry T, but Carlos schooled the Zombies on She’s Not There.

Why do you confuse FDL diarists with FDL front-pagers? Sounds like that lazy broad-brush thinking you accuse a lot of FDLers of doing.

If you’re talking about David Dayen, he’s not an FDL diarist, but an actual FDL writer, and he documents his arguments:

But undergirding all of this is a belief in liberal interventionism. People can wave the bloody shirts caused by Joseph Kony and say that a President is justified in “trying to take out” a terrible murderer. This is the same argument that liberal interventionists made in Libya, to “take out” a brutal dictator. I understand there are degrees to this, and that 100 advisors are not the same as a nightly barrage of air attacks to protect the citizens of Benghazi and remove Gadhafi from power. Though, shouldn’t the ones who have a problem with that be the liberal interventionists? If Joseph Kony is really so horrible – and Lord knows that’s why the netroots changed all their blog templates to red, gold and green back in 1987 – why wouldn’t you send more than just 100 trainers who can only shoot in self-defense to tackle the problem? If the cause is just, shouldn’t combat troops be put in the field with a shoot-to-kill order? Shouldn’t we have air support? After all, he’s murderous, the scum of the Earth, I’ve heard it told on liberal blogs for 20 years and not just three days ago to score a political point against an individual or a website.
The larger point is that I’m not a liberal interventionist. I have grown more isolationist over the past decade. I fully admit that. And most of the reason is a practical one, namely that I don’t think America does a very good job of “rescuing” people from the clutches of a dictator or provocateur. We just don’t have a great track record at saving the world. We cause a lot of unintended problems. The revolution in Libya has been good for many living under the thumb of Gadhafi, but not for black Africans in Libya and others plucked out of their homes and abused by vengeful rebels. We “saved” Afghans from Soviet invasion, and the favor in return was the rise of the Taliban. We don’t have as much power to control events as many Americans believe, and often we lead to more consequences for both the local population and sometimes our own national security.

I myself disagree with him on this issue, as I do on Libya, but his arguments are well-thought-out, based in reality and experience (some of which involves having a relative who worked for the US Embassy in Uganda).

I’ve been chatting with TBogg since before he got his own blog — in fact, I was one of the many persons on Salon’s old “Table Talk” forums that all but begged him to start blogging back in the early ’00s. Yet I still post at FDL as a regular front-pager with no problem at all, and I tolerate narrow-minded persons of all persuasions — though I do occasionally feel the need to set them straight. A look at my comments history should show I’m an equal-opportunity haranguer.

She’s right about that. Everything above.

For the record, I think the world of David and think he was quite a catch for FDL. I don’t agree with him on this but I thin he presents his side with admirable clarity and honesty.

I thin so too – Ricky Ricardo

Why do you confuse FDL diarists with FDL front-pagers?

If you’re talking about David Dayen

Wasn’t talking about David….

And with that I’ll take a deep breath and go have lunch. :-)

I am enjoying American Horror Story so far (except for Dylan McDermott who chews up the scenery).

Wade a minnit. I thought scenery chewing was de rigeur in horror movies.

Why do you confuse FDL diarists with FDL front-pagers?

Let me edit my (lazy) reply to you @27: I wasn’t….