John Sears | February 22, 2011
Scotty won’t talk to the unions and he won’t talk to us at the Capitol but man he loves talking to the media: Gov. Walker: To speak directly to the people 2/21/2011 … Madison—Tomorrow night at 6 pm central Governor Walker will directly address the residents of Wisconsin to discuss our current fiscal year challenges, [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2011
This statement put up on BuyZombie by the author of a number of Anti-Zombie books on their marketability and the influence of the Anti-Zombie craze on authorial choices was illuminating, if depressing: When I started writing fiction seriously I never thought I’d end up a zombie writer. That’s not to say I am strictly a [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2011
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Crisis in Dairyland – Revenge of the Curds www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook Can I just say this up front? Jon Stewart is a massively overrated pundit who isn’t nearly as smart as [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2011
The video above, taking video from ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and running it in reverse alongside the ‘Dead Island’ trailer theme, helps to illustrate a point the ZRC has been trying to make in the discussion over ‘Dead Island’ on the net the last few days: the fact that the trailer is visually pretty and [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2011
The rally continues and democracy continues on another day here in Madison. Far more drizzly, frigid and generally unpleasant weather has moved most activities indoors but thousands still turned out for today’s festivities. (Inside the Rotunda this afternoon) (Great sign from today) (The great folks from Ian’s on State are very busy dishing out those [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2011
Getting a late start protesting today. Entirely my fault; dishes had stacked up, laundry needed doing and I have a sick norfolk pine that I was tending in the green room downstairs. Plus I had to take the time, and inhale the fumes, to craft this: That’s right, it’s my first sandwichboard protest sign for [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
As you can see from the blog feed, your loyal ZRC staff stayed back at the home base today and tried to catch up on some of the Zombie Business that had piled up. Tomorrow I’m going to be back downtown for as much of the day as possible. Get some more pictures, video, hang [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
I was somewhat bemused to see this particular editorial arguing that there is no reason to find the ‘Dead Island’ trailer controversial: So Dead Island has been announced, and everyone’s going gaga over the trailer. Forgive me for being so blunt, but I fail to see why. Various industry outlets such as MCV and The [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
I was alerted to today’s ‘Get Fuzzy’ comic strip by ZRC Cultural Historian Andrew Leal, who keeps up with the newspaper comics industry for us. I’ve taken the liberty of posting the comic below, so you can read it before the ZRC take: Two things about this strip interest me from a ZRC perspective. First, [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
Minecraft, for those who aren’t aware of the phenomenon, is a sort of sandbox/world building game, centered largely around construction in a cube-filled, primitively polygonal world: Minecraft is a sandbox building[1][2] indie video game written in Java originally by creator Markus “Notch” Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the [...]