John Sears | January 17, 2012
The following post is rather long but important. The short story: the ZRC website and blog will be down on Wednesday, January 18th as part of a (much) larger internet protest against an odious proposed new censorship law, the Stop Online Piracy/PROTECT IP Act. This law directly threatens what we do here at the ZRC, [...]
John Sears | January 10, 2012
It’s a brand new year, and that means it’s time to plot out our next moves in the campaign for full and true Undead Equality here in America. How to reach this lofty goal? Well, in a word: outreach. Lots and lots of outreach. And outreach often means traveling to where people are and educating [...]
John Sears | December 17, 2011
I trust you’re all aware of the proud list of nominees we selected for the shortlist for this, the ZRC’s award honoring the very best and noblest efforts by a Zombie to improve the public image of the Zombie Community and advance the cause of Zombie Rights. If not then I do humbly suggest you [...]
John Sears | December 15, 2011
I’m not sure what to make of these at all: Mark your glass with a grotesque piece of human anatomy. For anyone looking to impress their living dead friends. You’ll be dazzled by these delicious zombie snacks. Featuring a brain, stomach, lungs, heart, and intestines. Each charm is approx. 1 1/2″ or under. First of [...]
John Sears | December 14, 2011
Let’s get this out of the way up-front: this post isn’t about Zombies, or their rights. It *is* about putting an easily found record on the web about a particularly skeezy hotel that ripped me off while I was out and about traveling on behalf of Zombie Rights, and the large corporate hotel chain that [...]
John Sears | December 10, 2011
It has been a momentous year for Zombie Rights. The ZRC has done outreach galore, dipped our toes into political controversy, led a Zombie Rights rally in Illinois and even participated in the world’s first (to our knowledge) Zombie Rights Debate in Victoria, Texas. But this post isn’t about us. Standing up for the rights [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
So I’ve salvaged the ZRC’s computational engine just in the nick of time, and upgraded all our important stuff to being stored safe and sound off-site via the magic of Dropbox. Good thing too, because the tips are coming in fast and furious on Twitter. For example, did you know that Star Trek: Enterprise had [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
A discussion came up on Twitter about the issue of DRM and books after I stated my distaste for the practice. When the art director got home from work we talked about it too, and both concluded that one of the chief evils of DRM on books is that books are meant to be readable, [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
We came, we saw, we did noble battle against the forces of intolerance. Well, *I* did, anyway. Yes, the trip to engage in a heated ideological struggle for the promotion of Undead Equality has been successfully completed, and I am here to tell about it. And brag about it. Really brag about it. As mentioned [...]
John Sears | November 28, 2011
Yes, that title is partially just an excuse to use the phrase ‘beset by woe’, what can I say, I’m a bit strange. In the last day: -my laptop crashed, corrupting a ton of my files, necessitating an all nighter to restore some things not backed up in Dropbox -one of our bathrooms had a [...]