"I'm perfectly able to hold my own hand."
Some crazy shit going on right now at the University of Rhode Island's main campus, where Spooky's dad works. The university is (or was) on lockdown over the possibility of a shooter, though it now appears to have involved a fake gun
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I greatly enjoy *The Walking Dead*, both comics and TV (& I like that they are different). Kirkman knows what Romero knows: many of the best ld stories are not about the ld at all but about the people--with the added symbolic weight of the ld, but primarily studies in the human characters.
As far as new things with the ld per se, most of the stuff I find most exciting is going on in fiction & goes into the minds of the ld, such as *Raising Stony Mayhall" and *Breathers*. Some movies are doing this, such as a mockumentary called *American Zombie*, but too many are just slasher films recast for a mindless horde.
And some good films do explore other areas without giving cognition and personality to the ld: have you seen Romero's *Diary of the Dead*? I found his *Survival of the Dead* a big disappointment and *Land of the Dead* uneven, but "Diary" showed to me he could indeed bring his social criticism into the '00s. (It vs. *Land* also convinced me that he really can't handle a bigger budget.)
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