Category Archives: Books, Movies & Magazines
Grogheads Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide! Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here
I always hated the oft quoted (and misquoted) phrase; “No man is an island”. No man is a pizza, either. But I do get the sentiment. Essentially it means that being part of a team is better than being alone. And that is absolutely true when the thin veneer of society falls away. When things are bad, a team is essential to survival. Mad Max roaming the dystopian wasteland wouldn’t last long at all. Movies and TV often feature the sole figure surviving alone, but one guy out in the wild can’t stand guard while he sleeps, can’t flank an enemy and has no contingency plan for unexpected mayhem. There are loads of other things one person can’t do, not to mention it can get lonely as hell when the only other beings out there want to kill you and or eat you. Having a team is probably one of the factors that most greatly increases the odds of survival during very bad times. Your immediate family may be that team, but then again, it may not.
The post-apocalyptic family
By: Jonathan Glazer
Grogheads Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide! Roger Wilco Zulu Alpha
You can practice marksmanship for years on end and stockpile freeze dried food and fish antibiotics in ridiculous quantities, but your chance of survival alone is small. Being part of a team when the flesh eaters start to hunt you is probably the single most important determinant of whether or not you will be able to make it past the breakers and continue breathing. For now, I won’t go into how to build a team and who to include. I want to talk about communications. If you are part of a team, hell, even if you aren’t part of a team, you will need to communicate with others. And this means beyond shouting distance. Communications, or “comms” for short, cover how individuals and groups transmit messages and ideas from one point to another. There are two components to comms, transmitting and receiving. Someone has to send up the smoke signals and someone has to interpret them. Whether it is two people speaking face to face or on cell phones, the principles are the same. In fact, we as a society have become so dependent on cell phones, that we have forgotten how to communicate in other more traditional ways. As they say, everything old is new again. Cell phones will be paperweights once society crashes. The infrastructure required to keep them all functioning will come crashing down once things go bad.
By: Jonathan Glazer
Do Zombies Drink Corona? The Zombie Survival Blog Returns!
It has been quite some time since my last communication in this blog. It hasn’t been because there was nothing more to say. I was just focused on surviving. And then world events popped up and made all of us think about survival. Even the hermit living at the top of a mountain knows about the pandemic that crashed through world economies like a wrecking ball. In a perfect world, politics would have no place in health discussions, but this issue has become so highly politicized that it is difficult to focus solely on the facts. Regardless of whether you feel that this was a health crisis that threatened the lives of you and your family members or that it was an overblown reaction engineered for a political outcome, readers of this series will agree that it has to make us think about what to do for the next pandemic.
By: Jonathan Glazer
Dragon’ Up The Past – Urban Adventures
Jim has found something he can truly hate ~
Brant and Jim, 17 August 2018
A whole bunch of articles about cities, and a whole bunch of anger from our man in Milwaukee.
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Dragon’ Up The Past – Anti-Paladins & Women Gamers
Our first ever 3-man DutP Broadcast! ~
Brant, Jim, and Byron, 3 August 2018
We check out morality in role-playing, women in gaming, industrial figure painting, and oh so much more….
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