Teller: actor, magician, painter, writer, stage partner of Penn Jillette. Officially single-named. Not actually mute.

And now - zombie apocalypse survivor.

Teller has released a brief video showing his life after the zombie apocalypse that destroys Las Vegas (presumably this time, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas).

And if you’ve never heard him speak before, Teller has a very nice voice. [See the video after the cut]

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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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There’s finally an “exclusive” trailer out for George A. Romero’s new zombie film, “Diary of the Dead”. The trailer starts with an intro from Romero himself, promoting a contest to include a select short horror film on the DVD release of his new movie.

“Diary of the Dead” is said to be more of a reboot of the classic “Night of the Living Dead” than a continuation of it. The new films depicts the start of the dead returning to life as flesh-eating zombies in a contemporary setting, documented by a student filmmaker.

The new film opens in limited release in the US on February 15. The trailer is after the cut.
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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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Who says YouTube is only for pirated video?

Harkening back to an entire 9 days or so ago, the completed video of zombies doing yoga is now live. You can find it here on YouTube or watch it embedded after the cut.

The video is a trailer for the new book: “The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead”

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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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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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Ain’t It Cool News has an early review of the best kind of zombie film - the George A. Romero kind, with underlying social commentary and flesh-eating acid.

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It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned zombies. And, in fact, I’ve been a little zombied out. While the world hasn’t changed enough to no longer be in need of acute zombie political commentary, it seems like everyone and their Aunt Petunia has been jumping on the zombie bandwagon the last couple of years. Which reminds me that “Fido” never did play in our area, and it looked to be “Shaun of the Dead” good.

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