Even though it’s been a hectic week, I’ve managed to farm up more interesting links that I just didn’t have time to write about!<\/p>\n
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Eddie Campbell deftly weaves together thoughts on Baudrillard, Captain America, and zombie movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Speaking of which, here’s Daniel Gross on the Attack of the Zombie Brands<\/a>! Of course there’s a cheap sequel<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n You’ve been taking Poland for granted<\/a>. Admit it.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n The Nazis also took Poland for granted. But they seem to have taken acid before commissioning this propaganda poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Now this Science Fiction and the City film fest<\/a> is more up my positronic laser cannon of an alley.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n I knew George Will was growing more libertarian of late, but now it looks like he’s getting column ideas<\/a> from the IJ ads<\/a> in Reason<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even though it’s been a hectic week, I’ve managed to farm up more interesting links that I just didn’t have time to write about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27,26,4,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-big-business","category-comics","category-literature","category-politics-explicit","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15035,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-471-glenn-kurtz","url_meta":{"origin":1401,"position":0},"title":"Episode 471 – Glenn Kurtz","author":"Gil","date":"February 1, 2022","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 471: Glenn Kurtz \"You can show what's lost by showing how rich some tiny little fragment was.\" With Bianca Stigter's documentary, Three Minutes: A Lengthening, on the festival circuit, author and inadvertent historian Glenn Kurtz joins the show to for a conversation about his 2014 book, Three\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/kurtzcomp.jpg?fit=1040%2C800&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/kurtzcomp.jpg?fit=1040%2C800&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/kurtzcomp.jpg?fit=1040%2C800&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/kurtzcomp.jpg?fit=1040%2C800&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1665,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/next-up-myspace-page-of-the-dead","url_meta":{"origin":1401,"position":1},"title":"Next up: Myspace Page Of the Dead","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my buddies once told me that he knew someone who was writing a novel about a zombie plague, and that the story was going to be told in the form of blog-entries. 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