John Sears | May 29, 2011
I’ve heard of niche marketing but I have to say this is slicing your demographics a tiny bit thin: In Whittier, CA July 9th 2011? Cirque de Zombie So this sounds as if it could be fun. Not only is it a zombie pub crawl but its a THEMED zombie pub crawl. Yes they want [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
I have talked on Twitter and elsewhere about my frustrations with Paypal. We’ve had some customer service issues; a payment reversed here, some other difficulties there. It’s a bit clunky, and hard to use some features for our store. So I started looking into Google Checkout. At first it looked great; full of useful features, [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
If for no other reason than to curry favor with the adorable animal obsessed crowd on Twitter, here’s an update on the wildlife of the ZRC Compound: Today I discovered that the mourning doves, my accursed foes (whose ‘plaintive’/incredibly loud and annoying calls are driving me slowly insane) have constructed a nest over the light [...]
John Sears | May 25, 2011
A quick update to capitalize on one of the ZRC Compound’s renewable resources, adorable wild animal photographs: They seem to like congregating under that one tree; I guess it keeps the sun/rain out pretty effectively. Now for the daily dose of horror, look what happened when I tried to take a picture of that one [...]
John Sears | May 22, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign has had a long and eventful history with the film today known as ‘III Slices of Life’. Even before we had begun formal operations the proto-ZRC saw the first published segment of ‘III Slices of Life’, then called ‘W.O.R.M.’ and now incorporated into the final anthology as ‘Work Life’, at The [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
At first glance this ‘Zombie Beach Party’ sounds like an amazingly fun time: In celebration of our 2010 Guinness Record achievement as the “Largest Gathering of Zombies in the World” we will be hosting our first ever “Zombie Beach Party” in Asbury Park! On Saturday, May 28th zombies will once again converge on the Asbury [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
Our piece on the Better Sleep Council’s campaign about ‘Zombieitis’ apparently reached the upper echelons of the Mattress Lobby because we got a relatively conciliatory response on the matter, which you can read here. It’s not perfect and we take issue with a bit of it but still, the door has once again been opened [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
Just wanted to make a very quick update to show that we’re ready in case tomorrow really is the Global Reanimation Block Party, or as some unenlightened individuals have taken to calling it, the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. We’re all set up for a festive gathering here at the ZRC Compound. As you can see we have [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
I wanted to deal with this shocking and almost unspeakable offense by an agency of the United States Federal Government sooner, but their blasted original blog page was down.. a lot.. and the ZRC always tries to evaluate primary sources when feasible in the name of journalistic integrity. Still, it’s getting a ton of press: [...]
John Sears | May 16, 2011
Here at the ZRC, we take intellectual property seriously. Note that I don’t say ‘copyright’, I say intellectual property, and there’s a good reason for that distinction. Intellectual property is the precious commodity of creative thought and copyright is an antiquated and abusive system to try and guarantee payment for the use of said commodity. [...]