Posts Tagged ‘zombies’

Pat Martin questions the government’s zombie preparedness

By Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 0 Comments

The second last question from QP this afternoon.

Mr. Martin’s mention of Quebec seems to be a reference to this.

  • The existential crisis of the opposition MP

    By Aaron Wherry - Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM - 0 Comments

    Megan Leslie had a dream last night.

     

     

     

  • Zombie lit: The undead go highbrow

    By Richard Warnica - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM - 0 Comments

    A new generation of writers puts some pulp into fiction

    Zombie lit: The undead go highbrow

    Getty Images: Photo Illustration by Sarah MacKinnon

    If you want to understand the current wave of genre-flecked, highbrow American fiction writers—the Colson Whiteheads and Jonathan Lethems erecting literary skyscrapers around pulpy frames—you could do worse than reading the first line of an essay Lethem wrote for The New Yorker in 2002: “In the summer of 1977, I saw Star Wars 21 times,” Lethem started, “mostly by myself.”

    Lethem has serious sci-fi chops. His first novel, Gun, With Occasional Music, was set in a dystopian future where kangaroo gangsters coexist with classic American gumshoes. But he became famous in mainstream circles first for Motherless Brooklyn, a detective novel whose hero has Tourette’s syndrome, and later Fortress of Solitude, a coming-of-age tale that blends comic books and soul music with more traditional literary fare.

    Along with Michael Chabon, who wrote a speculative detective novel of his own, Lethem is often cited as a leader in a new class of genre-blending novelists—writers unafraid to borrow from fantasy, horror or comic books in their so-called serious fiction. The newest entry in that field is Whitehead’s Zone One, a post-apocalyptic zombie novel, out this month. Zone One is at once true to its genre—there are moments of legitimate horror in this book—and something entirely new. A meditation on loneliness and mediocrity, it is funny and strange and wholly relevant to the world we live in now.

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  • 'It is a mythical tree spirit, the true, fragile nature of which only Stephen Harper understands'

    By Aaron Wherry - Monday, March 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM - 64 Comments

    Tabatha Southey listens to the Prime Minister, imagines a world in which democracy is an actual threat to the welfare of the nation.

    During Canadian federal elections, neighbourhoods are canvassed by hoards of zombies. These zombies do not just put fliers through your mail slot – they zombie-knock at your door while you’re trying to make dinner. They often ask you if you have any issues that are of particular concern to you. And after inquiring about whether you’re properly registered to vote, they ask you if you need a ride to the polling station, and then they eat your brains. It’s intrusive.

    Meanwhile, investors are surprisingly unpanicky about the possibility of an election.

  • Megapundit Extra: Line of the day

    By selley - Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:52 PM - 7 Comments

    …goes to David Menzies… over at the National Post Full Comment blog, where he

    …goes to David Menzies over at the National Post Full Comment blog, where he skewers the Toronto District School Board’s impossibly fussbudgety Halloween guidelines—sorry, Black and Orange Day guidelines. One TDSB warning: “The images and icons associated with consumer-oriented Halloween can come into conflict with some students’ and their families’ religious beliefs.”

    Menzies asks: “Does dressing up as a zombie mock the resurrection of Christ?”

From Macleans