Film Review: Zombieland

Full Title: Zombieland
Year: 2009
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, and Bill Murray
Running Time: 88 minutes
Rating: R
IMDb Rating: 8.2 ( #182 in the top 250)
My Rating: A- 9.0
Here’s Why:
Killing zombies, discovering new loved ones, and enjoying the simple things in life like a delicious twinkie! Who could ask for more? In a world run by the undead, what are you going to do anyway? Right? In this action packed Horror/Comedy flick, we learn how to survive a zombie world invasion and the seemingly harder task of creating a new family with the only humans left. This is being placed on my list for best of 2009. Don’t worry it is not knocking (500) Days of Summer or Inglourious Basterds out of their well desreved ranks. But, I strongly recommend everyone to journey to your local cinema and see this. The film masterfully keeps its viewers in suspense with humor, romance, and drama. I especially dug the narrator’s rules for surviving a zombie invasion. There were over thirty and if you wanted to live then you best follow them. Some included cardio, have to run fast from those bastards, the double tap: after shooting a zombie, shoot it again to make sure it’s dead, always checking the backseat, amongst others. Overall, this was a fun movie and a particularly great experience fore me because I saw it with a very lovely lady ;).

Chris

Liberty Conference!

Saturday November 7

Taking place on the historic campus of Harvard University, the 2009 Boston Students For Liberty Conference will be an opportunity for all liberty enthusiasts in the Northeast to spend a full day soaking in the ideal of liberty. From 8:30 am to 8:30 pm, you will get a chance to hear great speeches from leading scholars of liberty, engage with activists of the liberty movement, and meet student leaders of liberty.

Come to the conference to gain the concrete resources you need to be an integral part and leader of the burgeoning liberty movement on your own campus, be introduced to the variety of internship and employment opportunities in the community of liberty enthusiasts, or network with like-minded friends and activists.
Join us for this exciting day (don’t worry, three meals and an evening social on us!), and spread the news to your friends.

2009 GOP Census Document

Get a look at this:

3. Will you join the Republican National Committee by making a contribution today?
() – Yes, I support the RNC and am enclosing my most generous contribution of: _______
() – Yes, I support the RNC, but I am unable to participate at this time…I have enclosed $12.
() – No, I favor electing liberal Democrats over the next ten years.

How about…all three options suck! RNC is dumb.

8 Ways To Culture Jam The Economy!

If you really want to culture jam the economy, here are some methods:

1. Buy stocks without a broker. (Only ownership changes.)
2. Give somebody a gift of cash or receive a gift of cash. (Only ownership changes.)
3. Sell used goods. (Prices can’t be counted twice.)
4. Marry a maid. (The maid doesn’t get paid for household tasks!)
5. Pay under-the-table. (No need to do any financial reporting.)
6. Buy a whore.
7. Gamble amongst yourselves.
8. Buy drugs!

You are on your own. KLYAM doesn’t necessarily endorse any of the above.

Academic Application!

It’s been a while since I did an Academic Application. They are so 2007 aren’t?

Subject: Microeconomics
Example: Total and Marginal Utility of Downloading and Reviewing Digital Music Albums

# Reviewed Per Week….Total Utility…Marginal Utility
0 ……..0……….0
1 ………9.3…..9.3
2………18.2…8.9
3………25.1…6.9

What’s happening? Total utility is increasing and marginal utility is decreasing. If I listened to a great fourth album, this whole thing would be fucked up because at a certain point I’m supposed to derive zero marginal utility from listening to more than ______ albums. Albums with zero marginal utility or negative marginal utility are essentially nuisances. Even if I illegally download albums for zero cost, the entire process could become a nuisance to me. Maybe I wouldn’t be able to review all the albums that I downloaded. In that case, maybe I will give those albums lower scores because I didn’t bother to completely listen to them. These downloaded albums would become “bads” because they serve no utility to me at all. Also, why should I review a great number of albums if I am not getting paid? Wouldn’t it be most useful to review just one album a week and spend a lot of time examining it?

Save The Planet…EAT YOUR DOG!

The Dominion Post
The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.

Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs for creatures they can eat, such as chickens or rabbits, in their provocative new book Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living.

The couple have assessed the carbon emissions created bypopular pets, taking into account the ingredients of pet food and the land needed to create them.

“If you have a German shepherd or similar-sized dog, for example, its impact every year is exactly the same as driving a large car around,” Brenda Vale said.

Take that environmentalists!

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