Tag Archives: Zombies

Movie Review: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

This weekend, I watched the 1974 Italian/British zombie film Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.  Overall, I’d give it a “B-.”  Not Dawn of the Dead, but not Rise of the Dead either. At first glance, the plot looks pretty standard:  Two attractive young people find themselves traveling in a remote part of the British countryside when theyContinue reading “Movie Review: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie”

I’m in the Chicago Tribune today

Christopher Borrelli did a tiny article on me in today’s Chicago Tribune:   Here’s a link to the online version, in case that scan is too hard to read.  It just covers the most basic ideas of my book, but I think we can all agree that the zombie girl licking the butcher-knife looks hot.

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies & Entertainment Weekly

About three months ago, issues of Entertainment Weekly started showing up unbidden at my apartment.  They contained neither a return address nor a customer-service number to call if receiving the magazine in error. Bafflingly, our culture has evolved such that now Entertainment Weekly is something you have to “opt-out of.”  Like when I buy something at Best Buy, the clerk who ringsContinue reading “Pride & Prejudice & Zombies & Entertainment Weekly”

A not uncomplicated Evil Dead-themed political cartoon

A friend just sent me this recent political cartoon: I think what the cartoonist is saying is that Obama is like Ash from Evil Dead, and lingering Republican economic policies that have favored the rich and impeded wealth-accumulation by the middle class are like zombies.  I think.    Anyhow, I’m a liberal on most issues, and a conservative on a few (like howContinue reading “A not uncomplicated Evil Dead-themed political cartoon”