Okay, one final apocalyptic post. CNN reports that “Flu virus ‘could kill 81 million’”.

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What with the holidays and all, the apocalypse isn’t much in the news, and people’s thoughts are turned to eating, stressing out about gifts, eating, skiing, hot chocolate, eating, sugar plums and the like. I’ll be taking a hiatus from the Apocalypse Blog until January 3rd (unless something really apocalyptic happens between now and then, in which case I promise to post about it!), when I’ll be back. In the meantime I’ll be switching servers so that the blog isn’t on the wrong end of our DSL line. So check back in here on January 3rd (or better yet, subscribe to the blog so that you get new articles automatically!) for some new stuff and have a great holiday.

It’s the folks who take it all so seriously that make it all worthwhile.

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I posted this yesterday, but for some reason ecto or Wordpress ate my post (first time!) and I was left with a (thankfully) unpublished empty draft. Maybe Caroline Corbitt is on to something with her robotic antichrist essay!

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I’ve removed the Zombie Index form the sidebar, but that doesn’t mean it’s … dead… and gone. No, in fact it is in the process of upgrading from a slow zombie to a fast zombie. I’ve been working on some backend software for the Zombie Index so that it can automatically track zombie events and update itself, and to provide a lot more zombie content, while decoupling it from the Apocalypse Blog so that the blog doesn’t go back to the “all zombies all the time” state. I’ll make an announcement here sometime after the first of the new year about the new functionality and where to find it.
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When I first wrote about Left Behind: Eternal Forces, I honestly figured it was just blog fodder. I thought it would be one of those games I’d hear about once, which might never even make it to release… and even if it did, I’d never hear about it again.

Wrong!
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Though only vaguely apocalyptic, some of these things related to ‘Apocalypto’ are simply too good to pass up. This will be the last time I blog about ‘Apocalypto’ for the near future, unless something really bizarre happens (which gives it even odds, I think).

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Richard Kelly’s film “Donnie Darko” blew me away the first time I saw it. I still haven’t seen the director’s cut; it’s something I really want to see sometime soon. “Donnie Darko” had the misfortune to feature an aircraft accident and be released in the US soon after September 11th, 2001. Very few movie theaters would even touch it.

Since Donnie Darko, he also wrote “Domino” (directed by Tony Scott), an over-the-top insane bounty hunter film which was also poorly received but blew me away.

Kelly’s latest film is “Southland Tales”, billed as an “apocalyptic story set in Los Angeles”, starring “The Rock”, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who’s still trying to find her post-Buffy footing, and Seann William Scott (I’m sorry, but what the hell is up with that extra ‘n’, anyway)?

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Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ won out in a weak weekend for the US box office, kicking the penguins and James Bond out.

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Reason Magazine runs a review of new-fangled psychedelic guru-wannabe Daniel Pinchbeck’s new book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl” in which he discusses that modern excesses deserve an apocalypse in 2012, surveys various phenomena like crop circles, and channels Quetzalcoatl under the influence of the psychedelic drug ayahuasca, concluding that we’re due for a shift in consciousness on a planetary scale in 2012.

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