Archive for the ‘Death + Humor’ Category
Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse Ali S. Khan, CDC Public Health Matters Blog (May 16, 2011) Ah, zombies — irrepressible, insatiable, instantly recognizable… and the ultimate marketing tool! Librarians most recently squeeeee!ed over a comic book of zombies and information literacy. Apparently the delicious braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains of someone (or someone’s kid) from the Centers for [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: disease, marketing, zombies
Bye Bye Birdies
10, Jan 2011The recent spate of mass bird deaths has taken flight across the Internet—a literal and figurative tweeting and Twittering—and dare I say crowing—on a large scale. You could say it’s causing quite a “flap.” Reported by the Associated Press, the Daily Mail and others, masses of birds have been mysteriously falling from the sky in [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Disaster|Death + Humor
- Tags: animals, mysterious deaths
Undead Enough for Modern Life: Zombie Rumination
6, Dec 2010My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead Chuck Klosterman, New York Times (December 3, 2010) Hey, DeathRef Gentle Readers. Meg Holle, Resident Zombie, here. As an undergrad at the University of Minnesota, my favorite class was “Monsters, Robots and Cyborgs,” offered by the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature department — probably unsurprisingly, the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: zombies
Death Wish?
5, Nov 2010Remember the Doomsday Clock? Only those of a certain generation—and perhaps librarians with too much random information in their head—do. As one of those said people on both counts, an article in the October Wired magazine caught my eye. Titled “Suspend the Deathwatch”, author Scott Brown revisits (did it ever leave?) the Doomsday Clock and [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture