John Sears | April 21, 2011
We mentioned the Columbus Zombie Walk benefiting the Mid-Ohio Food Bank earlier here on the ZRC blog, and got a comment on it a while later that I’ve been meaning to forward to you, our dedicated readership. Basically, we can’t all be in Columbus, but through the magic of the internet, anyone can help them [...]
John Sears | April 20, 2011
Background: There’s a t-shirt site, Shirt.Woot!, that sells shirts based on, amongst other things, user/crowd submitted designs. Once a week they hold a contest of sorts, where a theme is selected and people submit potential shirt designs based upon that theme. Winners get paid and to see a shirt they created manufactured. This week’s theme [...]
John Sears | April 19, 2011
Seriously, are they even trying anymore? I mean, when Arthur Suydam redoes classic imagery with Zombies, he puts a lot of care and time into it, and some of the results are very aesthetically pleasing, even if they’re typically Anti-Zombie. This, though? Yeah. Hot Topic is like pop culture vomiting into its own mouth, and [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
Well, I suppose it had to happen; there’s an arm’s race going on Anti-Zombie Easter chocolates. Groan: Can’t get your hands on a zombie chocolate Easter bunny? Don’t panic! While Think Geek can’t keep their awesome undead chocolate bunnies in stock, Oregon’s Lillie Belle Farms makes organic zombie chocolate bunnies to order — *and* you [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
This is not a joke at all; Re-Animator is being staged as a musical and there’s some serious talent involved: In 1985, Stuart Gordon directed his first feature film and created a sensation. It was “Re-Animator,” a smashing popular success based on a horror story by H.P. Lovecraft. The film delivered as many laughs as [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
As much as I suspect you love it when I latch on to a quasi-academic excuse to be prejudiced against the Differently Animated, I had to comment on this one from The Zombie Feed: “But Where Did All You Zombies Come From?” by Brandon Alspaugh Zombies are always hungry. I had begun a fairly dry, [...]
John Sears | April 18, 2011
Just a quick update to note that apparently Harcos Labs wants to terrify you about bananas that are merely in the *shape* of Zombies: Beware the Zombie Fruit! When Harcos Labs, makers of Zombie Blood Energy Drinks posted a picture of these awesome banana zombies, we had to know more. As it turns out, they’re [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
Honestly, this guy gets around. We’ve talked about him before here on the ZRC blog, here and here. Recently he penned a short blog post that went up on Boston.com, about his theory as to the allure of ‘End of the World’ fiction. It’s worth a read for a remarkably candid glimpse into what’s wrong [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
I’d heard about this movie before, and even seen the trailer, but something about it didn’t stick for me until I watched a scene on FEARnet today, and now I’m legitimately excited. The movie is called ‘Dylan Dog: Dead of Night’, and on the surface is a fairly bland seeming, Hellblazer-ish story about the one [...]
John Sears | April 17, 2011
We’ve talked about known merchants of hate Think Geek here at the ZRC blog quite a bit. Probably too much, in fact. Yet their lust for making sweet lucre off the pain and suffering of the Differently Animated seems to know no bounds, so we have to keep going back to that well to discuss [...]