John Sears | October 18, 2011
The ZRC will be a bit busy later this week attending The Dark Carnival. Here are a few highlights! (and we hope to see some Zombie Rights Supporters there) Friday: “Monster’s Ball” Party 8 pm at Jake’s Nightclub Live Music, Monsters and Mayhem, sure to be a Zombie Friendly Outing as well Films We *Need* [...]
John Sears | October 18, 2011
We’ve heard some buzz about this upcoming block-party-like event in Elgin: EVACUATION ROUTE DURING ZOMBIE ATTACK: Elgin, Illinois – Chicago Street, between Douglas and Villa. Entry points at the intersection of Spring and Chicago. ZOMBIE SAFE SHELTER AREA WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH: Bands, vendors, street performers, burlesque performance, costume contest and a special appearance by [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
Background: Noted author Neil Gaiman hatched a sort of pro-literacy/pro-literature movement for Halloween which has come to be known as ‘All Hallow’s Read’. Put simply: you should, asserts Gaiman, give scary books out for Halloween alongside candy, which as he notes, is also very important. All well and good. But why does the promotional video [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
This is one of the very strangest promotional campaigns relating to the Differently Animated we’ve yet seen: In a pop-culture world of zombie marches, video games and television shows, one regional hardware chain has taken the novel approach of actively marketing power tools and garden implements as protection against the undead. And not to leave [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
Here are two events, just two, I saw advertised on the way home from Z-Town: The Zombie Musical: Sadly we’ll be in Bloomington, IN for The Dark Carnival that weekend! Still, we wish our fellow Madisonians the best of luck celebrating this holiday season in a Zombie, and indeed, Mummy Friendly manner.
John Sears | October 15, 2011
When I first saw the flyer for Z-Town on State Street, I was concerned, but cautiously optimistic. ‘Sing, Dance, Love, Death, Brains’ as a tagline provides ammunition both for fears of Anti-Zombie stereotyping and for hope that the production would rise above casual pigeonholing of the Differently Animated (ala Romero, Kirkman, Brooks, etc) So which [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Sometimes the worst thing is when someone purports to be on your side all the while snickering and undermining your cause. Case in point, an article that’s being passed around quite a bit to the ZRC from Cracked.com, which is allegedly about helping Zombies survive a Zombie Apocalypse: New and potential zombies are a demographic [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Don’t get me wrong; this is not one of those cases where a developer or publisher just splashes some Anti-Zombie violence into a game or book or show to boost ratings; ‘The Lord of the Rings’ definitely, and prominently, featured Undead antagonists. Sad as that was. It also features some quasi-protagonists in the form of [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Being October now we’re seeing an awful lot of events like this one come up, sadly Anti-Zombie: For the past six months, Metzger has held down her administrative duties at Davis, as well as a part-time job at Naro Expanded Video in Ghent and a demanding gig as a community organizer of sorts. Last year, [...]