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Zombie image from Zombie John McCain for President.
Today is the Day of the Dead (for those of you who celebrate El Día de los Muertos, no offense is intended). The actual holiday has nothing to do with zombies. According to The Museum of New Mexico Foundation:
Although it's old news now, among the most infamous of the Zombie McCain genre were those of the prominent professional photographer, Jill Greenberg (example above). Although she has removed most of the doctored images from The Manipulator, the front page (at present) still includes this unflattering portrait from her photo shoot with McCain for The Atlantic.
However, many photographers and artists were highly critical of her defacements, calling them juvenile and unprofessional [e.g, Jill Greenberg vs. John McCain (vs. The Atlantic) from Conscientious - Jörg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography, and See no evil: How to destroy your photojournalistic credibility in nothing flat from bioephemera - art + biology by Jessica Palmer].
At any rate, whatever you may think of these ghoulish portraits, one thing is certain: if you're an American, GET OUT AND VOTE ON TUE NOV. 4!!
Or else who knows what we may be facing 77 days later...
Zombie John McCain
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El Día de los Políticos Muertos
Zombie image from Zombie John McCain for President.
Today is the Day of the Dead (for those of you who celebrate El Día de los Muertos, no offense is intended). The actual holiday has nothing to do with zombies. According to The Museum of New Mexico Foundation:
El Día de los Muertos, held on November 2nd is an important religious holiday in Mexico. Also called All Souls Day, it is an occasion marked by festive celebrations to honor the dead. Cemeteries are cleaned and decorated, special food and candies cooked, and home altars are designed in homage to ones ancestors. It is a day of joyous remembrance, not of sadness. The special songs, poems, foods and Day of the Dead art created for El Día de los Muertos reflect this outlook.Fusing Halloween, All Soul's Day, and Election Day, one comes up with The Day of the unDead Politicians...
Although it's old news now, among the most infamous of the Zombie McCain genre were those of the prominent professional photographer, Jill Greenberg (example above). Although she has removed most of the doctored images from The Manipulator, the front page (at present) still includes this unflattering portrait from her photo shoot with McCain for The Atlantic.
However, many photographers and artists were highly critical of her defacements, calling them juvenile and unprofessional [e.g, Jill Greenberg vs. John McCain (vs. The Atlantic) from Conscientious - Jörg Colberg's weblog about fine-art photography, and See no evil: How to destroy your photojournalistic credibility in nothing flat from bioephemera - art + biology by Jessica Palmer].
At any rate, whatever you may think of these ghoulish portraits, one thing is certain: if you're an American, GET OUT AND VOTE ON TUE NOV. 4!!
Or else who knows what we may be facing 77 days later...
Zombie John McCain
- 31 Terrifying Psychology Links For Halloween!
Spook me, please: What psychology tells us about the appeal of Halloween What do young children know about managing fear? Irrational human decision making during a zombie apocalypse. Extreme fear experienced without the amygdala. How to make a zombie...
- Some Terrifying Psychology Links For Halloween
Wishing you a thriller of a Halloween! How to make a Halloween brain cake (ht @mocost). What do young children know about managing fear? How to make a zombie brain (See also this related video). The Lure of Horror, where I explore horror's...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf). The kind of streets older people like to walk down. Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than...
- Maverick Maverick Maverick Maverick Maverick Maverick
And now... PALIN: ...Now, what I've done as a governor and as a mayor is (inaudible) I've had that track record of reform. And I've joined this team that is a team of mavericks with John McCain, also, with his track record of reform, where...
- The Sarah Palin Interview Generator
Can't get an interview with Sarah Palin? We've got you covered. Q: Why should the US elect Senator McCain? A: John McCain and I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security of our economy. It is, somebody was saying...