Not the temporal end of the world but the spatial one… these are some amazing photos taken by Amado Becquer Casaballe in Antarctica, at the literal end of the world. Casabelle spent a month on an Argentine icebreaker to visit a research base in Antarctica. His photographs are simply stunning.

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I’ve written about Neil Marshall’s new film, “Doomsday”, a few times before. Marshall brings with him a good resume of genre films: “Dog Soldiers” and “The Descent”, which leaves many people anticipating his new bigger budget, bigger concept film “Doomsday”.

In the world of “Doomsday”, Scotland is walled off to protect the rest of the world from a deadly virus called “Reaper”. 30 years pass and there’s a Reaper outbreak in another country, leading our heroes to enter the ruins of Scotland in order to try to find a cure. Malcolm McDowell stars as “Kane”, patterned after Kurtz from “Heart of Darkness” (or “Apocalypse Now” in the event that you’ve never read the book).

Someday we’ll progress to a point where scary, over the edge guys in media won’t be named variations of Cain or Kurtz.

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I’m able to gather items for the Apocalypse Blog from a variety of sources all over the web, and obviously they cover a lot of topics, from religious to secular apocalypse, lots of films and movies, non-fictional issues like bird flu and war… but it’s very rare when I’m able to post something food-related that’s not about e-coli contamination or crop extinction.

So it’s with a certain amount of pleasure that I pass along today’s find: the Zombie Food Pyramid. You know, so zombies can be sure to get a properly balanced diet.

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When the world ends, what skills will you have that will make other people want to keep you around?

Can you build things? Weld? Heal people? Cook? Grow food? Are you a sharp-shooter? Will you merely be the pregnant one, who people will keep around because you’ll be the mother to the new race of surviving humans, assuming that you don’t give birth to some kind of zombie monster baby?

Or are you destined for the soup pot?

The Post-Apocalyptic Workout is one unemployed (presumably striking) TV writer’s attempt to get herself into survivability shape.
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