Zombies have infested World of Warcraft: As part of the lead-up next month’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion, Blizzard unleashed a new plague across Azeroth last night. Strange crates have been showing up in port towns, glowing green and inflicting anyone who touches them with ZOMBIE MADNESS! Actually it’s a disease that last 10 …
A post from Lyn Gardner on the Guardian theatre blog that might be useful to my current 1st year students: Walk into the Royal Court upstairs to see Leo Butler’s Faces in the Crowd and you are in for a bit of a surprise. Back in the 1980s I recall the upstairs space being used …
David Sedaris (author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames) on the phenomena of the “undecided voter“: To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she …
John Hodgman, interviewed at The AV Club: I am someone who values truth—actual truth as opposed to “truthiness.” I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible. And in a very …