- Top Five Most Destroyed Canadian Cities In The Marvel Universe [via]
- Sam Worthington now admits he also sucked in Clash of the Titans. Well, it’s something, at least.
- New York Times Crossword Puzzlemaster Schooled on Definition of ‘Illin’. Crossword to your mother. [via]
- “Back in 2005 I did an evil, evil thing.” College professor seeds Internet with fake term paper to catch plagiarists
- And finally, Maureen McHugh on zombies:
Zombies, of course, are the opposite [of vampires]. They lack individuality. They are mindless, ugly, hungry. In a world where everything is ecologically interconnected they are outside nature, and therefore something that we can kill without concern or discrimination. And yet they are us, transformed into trash. Zombies, in one sense, are the ultimate ecological disaster.
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Zombies are kind of fascinating to me, because everybody seems to want to analyze them as a symbol, and they always seem to symbolize something subtly different. (For me, they’ve always seemed to be a symbol of the terrifying inevitability of death. You can run, you can fight, but there’s always a corpse in your future, and it may be shambling towards you slowly, but it never, ever stops. That’s why I find them genuinely scary. It’s also why it’s a relief to be able to laugh at them when they’re cheesy.)
And I may have to check out After the Apocalypse. It sounds up my alley, and I really ought to read some McHugh sometime.
I have a copy, but I’ve read McHugh’s latest collection beyond the first story, “The Naturalist” — which is, in fact, an apocalyptic zombie story. (You can read it here at Subterranean, where it was originally published.) I was a big fan of her first collection, Mothers & Other Monsters, and I’ve really enjoyed the three of her four novels that I’ve read.