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A Year Without Zombies: Envoi

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

Over the course of 2015, I did my best to avoid consuming or buying any media that contained zombies. It was about as difficult as I expected it to be, but more frustrating. In much the same way that vegetarians are … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 12: Teach Us To Care and Not To Care

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) I’m done. On the stroke of … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 11: I Aten’t Dead

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) Most of my game energies have … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 10: Necrotic Creep

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) Oy. An impending overseas move, a … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 9: Down Among The Dead Men

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) I’m definitely in a slump when … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 8: Losing the Will to Live

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) I have not been feeling like dedicating … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 7: Bring Out Your Dead

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) The Steam summer sale entirely failed … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 6: Summer Cannibals

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) They dog my heels. I was reading A.S. Byatt’s The … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 5: Zed is for Zion

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

(For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other fun things like ‘what exactly counts as a zombie?’, are explained here.) Hankerings Avoided Around mid-April I took … Continue reading →

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A Year Without Zombies 4: April Is The Ghoulest Month

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Sam Kabo Ashwell

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. (For 2015, I am trying to avoid playing any games or consuming any static media with zombies in them. My reasons, and other … Continue reading →

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