BRAAAAIIIIINS...

[yakalskovich]

In Aussie-Land, it's National Zombie Awareness Week. No, really. Honestly. Officially. No joke!

**giggles madly**

Comments

[randomhaze.livejournal.com]

Excelleeeent. Another reference to popular culture for my dissertation ^_^

[yakalskovich]

Oh yes -- I was really amused at how those highly official Aussie geeks use pop culture reference to establish a common base.

If you are working on pop culture references, you would like to look at the work of teriel. He does it with an esoteric approach, using strong shared pop culture references instead of traditional gods, but he really has a point beyond the meditations and stuff.

[randomhaze.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks. My Dissertation is going to be about Zombies, though, rather than general pop culture references ;)
It'll be one area to find quotes in, though!

[yakalskovich]

Dissertation about zombies. Wow! How comes?

[randomhaze.livejournal.com]

Eh, well, on a course like mine (Cultural and Historical Studies) the 12000 word project can end up being about practically anything, and I was going to do something "serious", but then I thought, I might only get one chance, so Zombies it is, after studying Horror, but not really getting into the zombie side of things. People glorify vampires, witches, even serial killers, but poor old zombies get left out in the literary and critical cold. It might be fun, it might drive me mad! We'll see...

[yakalskovich]

Sounds like enormous fun, and worth doing! If I catch any zombies, I'll send them your way.

In fact, there was just a short segment about African Voodoo from the 1920s on my TV, in a documentary about the Albert Kahn collection. There was somebody being initiated as if being revived from the dead...