John Sears | December 26, 2011
From BuyZombie we learn of yet another Zombie Apocalypse themed clothing product: When the zombies strike, an abundance of warning signs can help prevent the spread of infection. Our advice? Wear a reminder. It may seem obvious but humans are easily distracted, especially when they find a stash of canned foods with valid expiration dates. [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2011
Here at the ZRC we tend to be critical of the ongoing trend to just splash a bit of Zombie flavor into anything entertainment related and rake in the bucks; we even have a blog tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’. This comes up a *lot*. Yet when I saw this story about [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2011
Another day, another thoughtless ZRS post to discuss. Here’s one for the holidays, sort of, entitled ‘Why Zombies Don’t Look Like Santa’: Since it’s commonly thought that a person’s hair and nails continue to grow after death, shouldn’t all male zombies have long beards? The short answer is: no. Despite popular belief, human hair and [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2011
Musician and comedian Tim Minchin recently ran into a bit of censorship over a not-terribly-edgy comedy song about Jesus he composed for a Pre-Christmas special on British tv network ITV: So I got to writing. Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it [...]
John Sears | December 22, 2011
A commenter on the ZRC blog left a link to this little Youtube ‘gem’: As you can see, we’re dealing with two separate media products here: a webseries being titled ‘Songbook for the Civilized Zombie’, apparently about a ‘redeemed’ Zombie who has been coerced/brainwashed into eradicating other Undead individuals, and the song within the first [...]
John Sears | December 21, 2011
I trust you remember the ZRC’s run-in with Zombie-hating comic book artist Mike Hall, who helped create a bizarre comic book to promote library usage by promoting Anti-Zombie prejudice. Well, tragically, he’s at it again, with a piece called ‘Sam and Jill Versus the Atomic Zombies from Hell’. Naturally, our sympathies lie with these poor, [...]
John Sears | December 20, 2011
Is there anything more soul-crushing than ‘Reality TV’? I mean, aside from the train-wreck-worthy shows where people compete at belting out showtunes in front of millions upon millions of viewers who really could get much better free music by just going to Pandora, you have shows that feature people eating live bugs or swapping spouses [...]
John Sears | December 19, 2011
We’ve been talking a bit about the legal profession and its relationship with the Differently Animated here on the blog lately, and that got me to googling, as per usual. Also, sadly, as per usual, I did not like what I found. Case in point, this unfortunate article from the ABA Journal, the ‘flagship magazine [...]
John Sears | December 16, 2011
BuyZombie has an informative and of course, unfortunately prejudice-filled interview up with new Anti-Zombie author Matt Darst: MD-Zombies are a very different type of monster. My dad introduced me to George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead when I was a kid. That movie scared me in a way that, until then, “creature features” and [...]
John Sears | December 15, 2011
Now here’s a disturbing piece largely attempting to justify, within a legal framework, the persecution of the Differently Animated, while warning potential persecutors about possible legal liability: Let me interrupt our regular programming to ponder some of the legal issues raised by the sudden appearance of zombie hordes. Zombies have absolutely no control over their [...]