John Sears | January 18, 2011
Hello, Snorgtees! We see you have a Zombie themed shirt with the slogan ‘Zombies Hate Fast Food’. Depicting a mob of ‘Zombies’ chasing a jogger: Oh! ‘Fast food’! Har-har har. So very clever. Too bad you couldn’t work in a reference to ‘cardio’ while you were at it. Then when looking at that shirt you [...]
John Sears | January 17, 2011
Oh brother. You know the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ meme is getting out of hand when the survivalist black-helicopter crowd is latching on to it: The walking dead. A global crisis. The remnants of America. Around the globe, the dead are rising to devour the living. Hospitals are overrun, and martial law has been declared. The streets [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2011
We’ve been looking for Zombie Friendly music for some time, and when we find it the ZRC always does our best to promote this relatively rare commodity. Naturally when we heard about a ‘Zombie Musical’ up for free viewing, we jumped at the chance to watch. Unfortunately this so-called ‘Zombie Musical’ is another four minutes [...]
John Sears | December 28, 2010
We’ve talked here at the ZRC about the overuse of the term ‘Zombie’ to describe things that a given individual doesn’t like. ‘Zombie’ ideas, ‘Zombie’ banks and so forth. Up until now this overly broad application of the term had always been pejorative, but today I saw this article: Zombie Tech: These Ceiling Lights Are [...]
John Sears | December 27, 2010
I’m not going to get all high and mighty defending the Michael Jackson video for Thriller, even though it did playfully poke fun at the rampant stereotyping of the Differently Animated, and showcased, for example, some high points in Zombie choreography. It’s funny and unconventional, deserving of some praise to be sure, but it unfortunately [...]
John Sears | December 25, 2010
This article about Dead Rising for the iPhone at The Appera isn’t so much a review as it is a eulogy; it sounds like nobody in their right mind should play the blasted thing, for technical and gameplay reasons alone. Keeping in mind, it costs 2 bucks on sale. *snicker* Apparently it lags, it’s extremely [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2010
I know it’s been out quite a while, but when browsing Hulu recently I noticed that they have the whole first two seasons of Masters of Horror up, and Baron Mardi had again reminded us of the famous ‘Homecoming‘ episode of the series from legendary director Joe Dante, so we fired it up on the [...]
John Sears | December 20, 2010
I can’t think of any other particularly good explanation for his continued abuse of the term ‘Zombie’ in talking about whatever persistent untruths are bugging him (today) about his chosen profession, Economics. A field which seems to be slightly less scientific than, say, Baron Mardi’s magic sombrero ritual to raise the dead. We’ve previously seen [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
I really don’t know what to say about this one, at all: Now you can practice your zombie killing and get rewarded at the same time with this zombie pinata. Available on Etsy from Tom Dead Stuff the pinata’s are paper mache and sell for $40 plus shipping/handling. Yes, you can indeed do that – [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
I know this is starting to resemble beating a dead horse (which would be cruel, and if the horse was Zombified, actively against our mandate) but could we please, PLEASE stop using the word ‘Zombie’ to signify anything with which a writer actively disagrees and wishes would disappear? Examples abound: Academics have also begun to [...]