Inspired by a trip to Indonesia following 2004's tsunami, and a subsequent dream she had on a long-haul flight that involved the plane being overwhelmed by a wave of dead bodies, Earth Intruders is a brilliantly bold fusion of harrowing imagery ("Mud graves! Timber! Morbid trenches!") with extrovert, tribal-infused big beats and the delicate, metallic-sounds of Congolese musicians Konono No 1.
His appearance inspires a wave of dead-pet monster making, which turns "Frankenweenie" from a quiet, quirky horror-movie spoof into a loud and crazy action comedy, with enough menace and grossness to frighten small children and keep their jaded, thrill-seeking older siblings happy.
It is visible in the faces of widows who crowded the stairs outside an Islamic education center at Wednesday's Day of Resistance and Freedom, waving photographs of dead husbands and sons, asking for money for the loss they have suffered.
In Falluja, the former heartland of an al Qaeda insurgency and scene of some of the worst fighting in the war, several thousand Iraqis celebrated the withdrawal on Wednesday, some burning U.S. flags and waving pictures of dead relatives.
Thrashing waves pushed pieces of dead animals with active stingers through the net like a strainer, and live jellyfish made their way over the middle, which sagged under the weight of trapped seaweed and sand.
But where do you draw the line when it comes to waving around pictures of dead kids for political causes?
Teaming up with some pals to take on waves of the living dead is way more fun than doing it all by your lonesome.
The BP disaster poisoned the waters of the gulf and sent saddening waves of tar balls and dead animals washing up onto its beaches.
This type of bigotry has been (so far, and as far as I know) thankfully absent from the populist wave building out there -- but there have been plenty of more modern examples of such idiocy as well (such as Auschwitz photos of dead bodies waved at Tea Parties, for instance).
It took pictures of oil-capped waves, dead pelicans, and streaming video of tens of thousands of barrels of oil bursting from the ruptured ocean floor to raise sufficient outcry for President Obama to announce a moratorium on offshore drilling (well, sort of).
