What's with all the zombies?
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/10/zombies/
Maybe the undead creatures surfacing everywhere in pop culture have something to do with Washington and Wall StreetThat could be a question about one of the hippest retro fads that pop culture has going these days. Inspired by horror genres of past, zombies have lurched back to preeminence in books like "World War Z," video games like "Left 4 Dead" and blockbuster films like "Zombieland." Even the highbrow producers at National Public Radio recently devoted a segment to a University of Ottawa study titled "Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection." Indeed, the undead have become so popular, they've spurred "zombie walks" in cities and spawned Weird Al-ish parodies through Jane Austen knockoffs like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and bands such as the Zombeatles (with their hit "Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead").
Frighteningly enough, though, that question about zombies could also be asked of America's political culture.
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frizzlecat
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Can't say I've noticed anything particularly zombie-fest-like going on. Zombies are cool, they always have been. They've been in tonnes of films, loads of games, all over the place, really, for several decades. Zombies will always be cool, so there will always be new zombie things coming along. It's just a phase, like anything, zombies'll come and go................... unless you shoot their legs off.
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frizzlecat
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RojoGatto
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frizzlecat:
then they crawl
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RojoGatto
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frizzlecat
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frizzlecat:
When that happens, you shoot their arms off, a la ghetto-style amputation.
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frizzlecat
