John Sears | January 14, 2011
Thanks to Jerry Murdoch on Facebook I got The Cure’s song ‘Friday I’m in Love’ stuck in my head this morning. Here, you can get it stuck there too: In an attempt to get it back out of my brain, I rewrote the lyrics to be about something more interesting: Zombies. I don’t care if [...]
John Sears | January 14, 2011
At least they’re not trying to hide the Anti-Zombie agenda with this book, entitled ‘Ten Little Zombies: A Love Story’: Description: When being chased by ten little zombies (no matter how cute they are), your only option is to systematically destroy them one by one, or else become zombie number eleven. In this love story [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2011
I was recently linked via Zombie Universe to this talk from 2009 by one Dr. Steven Schlozman, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as well as practicing childhood and adolescent psychology and lecturing at Harvard’s School of Education. A prestigious individual talking about an important and widely neglected, when not actively maligned, community, here [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2011
Recently we’ve talked about how Zombie Walks shouldn’t be an exceptional experience but an ordinary part of daily life. Ironically, it seems there are those out there in the Anti-Zombie film industry who agree, looking to tap into this burgeoning part of the movement – to reduce casting costs and provide footage for one of [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2011
Maybe I’m being a bit oversensitive, but I still feel there needs to be some pushback on the notion that Zombie Walks are some sort of exceptional event rather than the Differently Animated embracing and exercising their First Amendment rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Witness this newspaper piece on the controversy over whether [...]
John Sears | January 12, 2011
It can be hard to evaluate an ongoing work, which is why, for example, I tried to be very careful with our recent review of the first episode of ‘Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?’ not to imply an endorsement of the show as a whole simply because of one episode in a series. Likewise, a [...]
John Sears | January 12, 2011
Google pointed me toward an article supposedly about the nexus of Zombies and knitting recently, and sadly, it wasn’t about a circle of Zombies who knitted scarves for orphans as a hobby, or what not. Instead it’s about a sort of club/get-together for people who like to knit, named in part after Zombieland, the odious [...]
John Sears | January 12, 2011
Over at oh yeah, paper! a post recently went up depicting a bold new frontier in hating on Zombies: stationary. Seriously. Gory and disturbing. Look at the way the envelope has been deviously constructed so that you have to maim the paper Zombie to open it, or the placement of the three ring binder holes. [...]
John Sears | January 11, 2011
We first heard about this new anime series some time ago, at which point I was fairly skeptical we’d see it in America anytime soon. I mean, most stuff that comes out of Japan relating to Zombies is drenched in gore and defamation, so would there be much demand for a potentially Zombie Friendly, and [...]
John Sears | January 11, 2011
As a handy short example of how lately the mainstream media is desperate to shoehorn Anti-Zombiism into every story they possibly can, look no further than this: It’s a dilemma of the computer age: you’re on a zombie killing spree in the virtual world while in the real one your beer mug has run dry? [...]