Monthly Archives: October 2011

HALLOWEEN / Dead Kennedys

October 31, 2011 – 11:32 am
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ZOMBIE DANCE / THE CRAMPS

October 31, 2011 – 4:48 am
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Zombie Alert

October 31, 2011 – 4:47 am

The word Zombie is derived from the melange of the words zonbi Haitian Creole and nzumbe from the African dialect North Mbundu. Zombies are the walking dead. They have been featured horror movies since their black-and-white introduction in George Romero’s 1968 epic film NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Scientists and anthropologists have searched Haiti for [...]

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# 7,000,000,000

October 31, 2011 – 3:55 am

The population of the world in 1952 was 2.635 billion. My birth in May of that year was lost in the infantile deluge of America’s Baby Boom. I was anonymous to everyone, but my family. Today the population clock hit seven billion and the Philippines declared a baby born at a Manila hospital was baby [...]

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Sanmhar Samhain

October 31, 2011 – 3:42 am

Halloween has nothing to do with Christianity. The Harvest Holiday originated way into BC. The Romans dedicated the feast to Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, and the Celts celebrated the summer’s end with huge bonfires to evoke the blessing of the spirit world for the dark half of the year. Walking between the [...]

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