“When a man eats your eye / like a big pizza-pie / that’s a zombie!”

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A little something for spooky-day: we haven’t even seen it yet, but George A. Romero’s “Diary of the Dead” has already been approved for a sequel, written and directed by Romero (of course).

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Warren Ellis shared a link to a brief apocalyptic film on YouTube. “Silent City” by Ruairi Robinson. Robinson was nominated for an academy award in 2001 for a 3 minute short animated film called “Fifty Percent Gray” (see it on YouTube) about a soldier who wakes up dead. While that nomination didn’t substantially help his career, “The Silent City” apparently did, netting him an agent.

“The Silent City” is a seven minute seven second film of a violent post-apocalyptic world that’s anything but silent. The embedded YouTube video follows. It features Don Wycherley, a few seconds of Cillian Murphy, and Garvan McGrath.

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Steampunk: Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England…

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Two views of the Vatican Museum’s exhibit on “The Apocalypse”. Opening Friday (that would be today) and running through December 7th, the Vatican Museum has an “iconclastic show” illustrating what St. John the Divine wrote in the Book of Revelation.

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Besides “The Day After Tomorrow” and “An Inconvenient Truth”, there haven’t been a lot of films about climate change, and even then “An Inconvenient Truth” is meant to be a documentary. Am I missing any? I feel like I must be missing some.

“The Last Winter” is a new horror film set against a background of global warming. Starring James LeGros and Ron Perlman, it takes place in the arctic region of Alaska, and of course as the environment warms and the permafrost clears, something horrible rises out of the formerly-frozen ground.

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The new TV season this year hasn’t brought much in the way of surprises, but last year’s held a few notable winners (like “Heroes”), and for a while it looked like CBS was really going outside its normal comfort shows with shows like the nuclear apocalyptic “Jericho” and a zombie-themed show called “Babylon Fields”, which unfortunately never got past shooting a pilot episode. “Babylon Fields” received a good bit of press but little was revealed about the actual story, and only a few photos managed to make it out.

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Congratulations to Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. I suppose that Gore didn’t personally win the Academy Award for “An Inconvenient Truth”; the film won it, but close enough.

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The Bad Astronomy Blog reports on an asteroid originally identified in 1960 which crosses Earth’s orbit but has been missing since then.

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Ain’t It Cool News reports on TV Week’s article about the return of CBS’s post-nuclear show “Jericho”. After the big fan-based “nuts” protest, CBS renewed Jericho for a seven episode second season which they plan to run as a mid-season replacement. The problem with “mid-season replacement” is that it depends entirely on the success or failure of CBS’ current crop of shows, like “Kid Nation”, “Cane” and “Moonlight”. The sooner one of them gets cancelled, the sooner Jericho is likely to return to the tube.

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