American Heart

For anyone still watching… Here’s some more zombies… http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanHeartShow

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Leaving on a Zombie Note

http://xkcd.com/348/ I love xkcd and I thought this might be a nice last post for me.  I really loved all of the zombie stuff we did in class.  There’s just something really cool about zombie movies and such.  Scary, but cool.  Have a nice break, everyone!

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I Hate Goodbyes

Sorry for the cheeseball title but Dumb & Dumber is one of my favorite movies and I thought it was appropriate.  Todays last class was completely surreal for me.  I cannot believe how quickly the semester flew and that our last class has passed us by.  I know we started to talk about this already [...]

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Casshern: SINS

Alex Bryce Blog Post #12 December 9, 2008 I’ve been watching this anime series, and it’s just…. amazing. I know some people in the class who have/had negative misconceptions about anime (especially after watching Chobits and Sailor Moon). I can only urge you to watch this series, as it really represents another side of anime; [...]

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Zombie fandom or Homophobia

These collection of home made  videos entitled fnm videos

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Chi as a sexual icon

See what you guys think this is also a rough sketchy of my essay. Chi is portrayed first and foremost as a sexual being starting with cover art which is never featured within the context of the story but puts her in super sexualized clothing and positions. The contents page art for the first issue, [...]

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Scientific Articles!

Alex Bryce Blog Post #11 So I found two amusing scientific articles: Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality by C. J. Efthimiou and S. Gandhi http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608059 (Click on download pdf on the right side) Mathematics of the Human-Vampire Conflict by Dino Sejdinovic Published in the Nov. 2008 issue of Math Horizons (I’m [...]

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“For creatures that supposedly crave the darkness, vampires seem to be getting more than their fair share of the spotlight.”

Depending on whom you ask, vampire stories can be read as symbols of venereal disease, capitalism, immigration, industrialization, colonialism, AIDS, homosexuality, mental illness, anti-Semitism, technology or class warfare. “The vampire myth’s power is that we can use it as a metaphor and a language to talk about the problems of our world,” says William Patrick [...]

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Thoughts on the Symposium

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Professor Burcar for putting the Syposium together. I felt like it was a complete success despite the low attendance rate. To me, numbers are not important, but the quality of the presentation. You can fill the room with 100 people, and do a half ass- job [...]

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Photos of the Student Symposium

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