John Sears | February 25, 2012
Another day, another pop-journalism story about the supposed menace posed by the peaceful Zombie Community: Look at you, all plump and fleshy, with a quickening pulse and body jam-packed with sweet meats. That brain of yours, with the scrumptious gray matter and thinking cap makes certain re-animated corpses crave a dining bib. So what are [...]
John Sears | February 25, 2012
We’ve attended a lot of Halloween events for the ZRC, and seen some political protesting done at them (as well as participated ourselves, like when we took picket signs and a megaphone to Elgin last October). Generally speaking, Halloween is a chance to make a statement, and sometimes those statements (and naturally the costumes that [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has been trying to spread the word that there’s no need to fear the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ for some time now (we prefer the term ‘Global Reanimation Block Party’ at any rate). But there are those out there that really like, for some reason, the idea of your largely peaceful and law-abiding [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2012
The ZRC is on Facebook, so we’ve, ahem, noticed the constant, frequent, and to many users maddening aesthetic tinkering that goes on with that particular social networking site. It doesn’t really bother me, because I went into Facebook assuming it was evil, but many users hate it. So it might be a PR misstep for [...]
John Sears | February 23, 2012
This sounds like a fun opportunity for some outreach to Zombie fiction writers in the Northwest, if any Z-Rights activists in the area want to attend: Simply Twisted Productions invites you to attend their first Book Date at the Northwest Film Forum (located at 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122) on February 25th, 2012. Doors [...]
John Sears | February 23, 2012
I’ve pined for a good (and available) Zombie beer on the ZRC Twitter off and on for some time, but the joys of Facebook brought me news of hot sauce, long my first love when it comes to bottled food concoctions – *Zombie themed* hot sauce. Observe: Yes, HauntedHotSauce.com does indeed sell a variety of [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2012
Unsatisfied with tying Zombies to every social ill rhetorically, some woefully ignorant individuals are stooping to forging the link between Undeath and various unpleasant things themselves: Gainesville Police Department Lt. Art Adkins can deliver this line with a straight face: “We’ve had an uptick in recent zombie activity.” … Until this month, police were using [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2012
I swear, if nothing else the forces of Anti-Zombiism are fiercely devoted to innovative new uses of social media to advance their cause. As are we. The sheer creativity our foes possess, however, with regard to marketing is something else: So, I’ve been working on a trailer for a new Year Zero feature film since [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign set out to the local independent theatre on Sunday afternoon to see ‘A Morning Stroll’, the Oscar-nominated short animated film that’s been causing some buzz. The terms ‘blood-thirsty’ or ‘Zombie dystopia’ are bandied about quite frequently, and naturally caused the ZRC considerable concern. Sadly, the film was even worse than I [...]
John Sears | February 19, 2012
Academia has flirted with Anti-Zombie attitudes and prejudices in the past but this is, I have to say, the most direct use I’ve yet seen of prevailing Undead hatred yet in an academic study: According to a new study, feeling fear may actually help people to better engage with abstract art. In the study, which [...]