The Weathering, Dawn of the Apocalypse by Joseph McGinnis

Seabrook's The Magic Island (1929) was a sensationalised account of a narrator who encounters voodoo cults in Haiti and their resurrected thralls. The English word “zombie” or indeed “zombi” first appears in print in an 1819 history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, and the word is thought to have its origin in West Africa in one of the Bantu languages spoken by the Kongo people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - nzambi (god) and zumbi or nzumbi (fetish, or indeed vumbi (mvumbi) (ghost, revenant, corpse that still retains the soul), or nvumbi (body without a soul). The term zombie comes from Haitian folklore, where a dead body is thought to be reanimated by magic, but later depictions in have the cause as everything from nuclear radiation to parasites, or scientific accidents, reflecting some major flaw in society. You can’t help but admire their single-minded focus. They may be slow, but just keeping coming at you, with a sole purpose in life (or death). There’s something endlessly fascinating about zombies. Hopefully this topic will bite, and you, dear Song Bar punters, can some flesh on it, or possible strip it back to the bare bones. This could in theory include horror movie mummies too, and possibly even vampires, but whether the latter actually die before they change to super-charged blood suckers, is uncertain, so let’s try to concentrate on songs about zombies and the like. So then, this week we turn our heads, ears, ears and hands, hopefully without any of these dropping off, to the topic of zombies and other mostly human monsters of the undead. But, in a bigger sense, without realising it, in our daily behaviour, in mankind’s own marauding history on planet Earth, drawn to shopping and mass consumption, could all of us already be zombies, sleepwalking into our own apocalypse? It’s certainly worth bearing in mind, if not actually in brain. Not, I hasten to add, with an urge to eat human flesh, but as groaning, half functioning still barely-human, eye-rolling twitching-corpse, shuffling and stumbling, with some semi-remembered, hardwired instinct, to go towards the kitchen. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.” – George A.

“I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next … I liked the monster within the idea, the zombies being us. “Bite first, ask questions later.” – John Austin, So Now You're a Zombie: A Handbook for the Newly Undead “You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.” – Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead “Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.” – Alan Moore I'd just want your heart.” – Stephanie Mabey How to use doorknobs.” – Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your.Brains “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”ĭarcy: 'They belong to you, Miss Bennett.” – Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

The Weathering, Dawn of the Apocalypse by Joseph McGinnis