About Me
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide: Ch. 5 – Aftermath
Like the characters themselves, viewers are left with a futility that either their hours were wasted or they must see the film as a “sunk cost” and thereby invest still more time in prequels and spin-offs.
Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide: Ch. 4 – Emergent Species
What has yet to be developed is a zombie-specific set of criteria which determine the quality of a literary event, a tragic absence in our culture, which this manual seeks to rectify.
Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide: Ch. 3 – Practical Guide
I despair (only a bit) that, as much as I enjoy a good zombie film, Zack Snyder’s heist-zombie film with a big budget will eat itself as well.
Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide: Ch. 2 – Equipment
What has yet to be developed is a zombie-specific set of criteria which determine the quality of a literary event, a tragic absence in our culture, which this manual seeks to rectify.
Zack’s Zombie Survival Guide: Ch. 1 – Identification
I hate zombies (and consequently love the films) because I dread becoming one, living, dead, or undead. Is there a worse fate than the loss of mind? Zombies speak directly to that too-real possibility.
American Original Sin: American Archetype
These are difficult arguments, and so, as good symbol-using animals, we tend to reduce the abstract complexity to symbols and fight over those instead. Why challenge American exceptionalism when we can argue over the best baseball team?
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