Really, it's just a coincidence that I'm leaving the country now...
Your humble blogger is headed to Shanghai this week for the "12th Dialogue on Sino-U.S. Relations, Regional Security and Global Governance," co-organized by the CSIS Pacific Forum, the Asia...
View ArticleEvery time I think I'm out, the undead keep pulling me back in!
Your humble blogger has returned from Shanghai, and would like to apologize profusely for the lack of blogging this past week. Conspiracy theorists might be wondering if it was because of The Great...
View ArticleGone Comic-Con-ing
Posting will be intermittent for the next few days, as your humble blogger is headed to... Comic-Con 2012 in San Diego. I will be going in two capacities: 1) An expert for the Zombie Research...
View ArticleAs an expert in post-apocalyptic political economy....
For the past ten days your humble blogger has been doing some intense work on a project that will see the light of day in the spring of 2013. This project has left your humble blogger's brain in a...
View ArticleWhat policies would best promote the zombie apocalypse?
While your humble blogger was wending his way back from Paris to the States, everyone and their mother emailed, Facebooked or tweeted me the following campaign video from geek god Joss Whedon: Now,...
View ArticleWhich candidate should YOU trust to handle the living dead?
Greetings from Great Britain, land of delicious clotted cream and no campaign ads. In other words, pure bliss.On this electuon day, I'm glad to see that others here at Foreign Policy are thinking...
View ArticleWhy World War Z scares me -- and not in the good way
We might live in an era of globalization, but its is nevertheless true that travel abroad leads to some odd news gaps when one returns. Last year I took a transatlantic flight and while I was...
View ArticleHas the zombie apocalypse jumped the shark?
In recent weeks there's been a low hum of pretty interesting and not-so-interesting essays asking why there has been so much attention paid in the zombie apocalypse, and what that attention signifies....
View ArticleAn appalling lack of zombie preparedness in the Great White North
Your humble blogger is taking a vacation at an undisclosed zombie-proof redoubt for the next ten days, so blogging will be on the lighter side. Speaking of the lighter side, juuuuuust a few friends...
View ArticleThis is me at TEDx on zombies
Your humble blogger gave a talk at the "Sex, Tech and Rock & Roll" TEDx event at Binghamton University last month. My talk was entitled "Metaphor of the Living Dead" and was in part prompted by my...
View ArticleHow the zombie apocalypse affects interest group politics
Over at the Guardian, Ed Pilkington notes a rather curious silence from a powerful American interest group: The National Rifle Association is so tied up fighting new gun restrictions in the wake of...
View ArticleBrad Pitt just depressed the living hell out of me about World War Z
So the big push for World War Z is clearly afoot. The second trailer for the film was released a week ago: So this trailer isn't all that different from the first trailer, which means my qualms...
View ArticleIdeas, Identity, and Game of Thrones
[WARNING #1: SPOILERS AHEAD] [WARNING #2: I HAVE NOT READ THE GAME OF THRONES BOOKS. WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN ANALYSIS BASED SOLELY ON THE HBO SHOW. YES, I KNOW I COULD READ THE BOOKS TO DISCOVER WHAT...
View ArticleWe Are Cancelling the Financial Apocalypse!! As for Other Apocalypses....
Sure, it needlessly cost billions of dollars, and it appears that the perpetrators of this month's deadlock have learned almost nothing from the experience... but the federal government has been...
View ArticleOn Beauty Pageants, Gender and the Living Dead
Last week, Jessica Trisko Darden wrote a guest blog post about the international politics of the Miss Universe pageant. Yesterday, over at Duck of Minerva, Megan MacKenzie took me to task for this...
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