Should it be functional or fashionable? Should it say “survivor” or “apocalypse fashion victim”? Should it carry a message?

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Jericho, rescued from oblivion by a fan-driven campaign that shipped 40,445 pounds of peanuts to CBS in protest of the show’s cancellation, is finally returning to the air in less than a day to begin its abbreviated seven episode second season.

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We’re in Santiago, Chile for a few days, on our way home from a trip to see Easter Island - not a particularly apocalyptic thing although it might be a good place to ride out a zombie attack if you need to. I can’t remember if it was mentioned in “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” or not. The island is one of the most remote, and the ocean floor drops off sharply near it, possibly making it difficult for underwater zombies to reach land.

But I digress.

We took a break from sight-seeing and all the empanadas and ham-and-cheese sandwiches to see “Soy Leyenda” yesterday, which I’d been interested in seeing in the US but didn’t have time to catch before we left. The film was in English with Spanish subtitles… there are several places in the film where you can barely hear lines, and it’s odd to see them clearly (in Spanish) in the subtitles. Given how weak my Spanish is, I could barely understand the subtitles, too.

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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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Phil Plait at the Bad Astronomy Blog has a great new word: “Cosmortology”. The word comes up in relation to recent reports that observing dark energy might shorten the life of the universe; it would mean causing the death of the universe, or studying the death of the universe.

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CBS has announced the schedule for the seven new episodes of Jericho. They’ll air on Tuesdays, starting February 12th, at 10PM. That should keep them out of American Idol’s way and give them some chance of success. Normally February is “sweeps month”, when ratings count the most for the networks and advertising rates are set; with the writer’s strike and lack of new shows for this February I have no idea if that will still hold.

In the meantime, Jericho Sesason one is out on DVD and available for download via iTunes and also for download to your Windows computer, supported mobile device, or networked Series 2 or Series 3/HD Tivo via Amazon Unbox.

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I think it’s official: Southland Tales has crashed and burned and already vanished from theaters. It wasn’t playing locally and I’d thought about going to Boston for a day to see it, but it had already been pared down to a single theater showing only a 1:30PM show… and now it’s gone, not even showing at the second run movie theaters.

Perhaps it will have some sort of after-live on DVD or Showtime.

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Google hit a new milestone a couple of days ago - its stock didn’t hit a new high, that’s come and gone - but it did close at exactly $666 on November 26th.

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I imagine that at this point you’re aware of the writer’s strike which is affecting television and eventually movie production. The first impact from the strike has been late night television and soap operas, but prime time TV will also be feeling it soon as shows run out of new episodes to air.

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The Apocalypse Blog welcomes a new word into the world: “Dioramageddon”, meaning “A scale model representation of the end of the world.”

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