John Sears | May 29, 2011
We’ve condemned the open-air game of simulated Living Supremacist conflict known and played on many campuses as ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ before here at the ZRC. It’s repulsive, divisive and perpetuates harmful stereotypes of the Differently Animated. A ‘game’ like that should have no place at an institution of higher learning. Thus this news story has [...]
John Sears | May 28, 2011
Not much seems to be available about this movie yet, but it definitely seems to be a unique take on the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’: Here’s the trailer for an indie film being shot in Athens, GA. They are making a zombie film where the zombies have no real interest in the living unless they are provoked. [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
I have talked on Twitter and elsewhere about my frustrations with Paypal. We’ve had some customer service issues; a payment reversed here, some other difficulties there. It’s a bit clunky, and hard to use some features for our store. So I started looking into Google Checkout. At first it looked great; full of useful features, [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
If for no other reason than to curry favor with the adorable animal obsessed crowd on Twitter, here’s an update on the wildlife of the ZRC Compound: Today I discovered that the mourning doves, my accursed foes (whose ‘plaintive’/incredibly loud and annoying calls are driving me slowly insane) have constructed a nest over the light [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
I don’t mean to be too hard on this shirt, I think it tries hard and the core message is pretty Zombie Friendly: Still I have to ask, why can’t you be a Zombie in *this* life? Is it really that big a distinction that a person dies (briefly and temporarily) then comes back as [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
Ok, Europe, can we have a quiet word please? …. All right, I think we’re alone. Look; what is wrong with you people precisely? At first it seemed like a fluke here and there, a movie like ’28 Days Later’ would come out, or ‘Shaun of the Dead’, that sort of thing. We were inclined [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
Honestly, is there any undesired phenomenon that people won’t try to tie to Zombies and some sort of apocalypse? Case in point, a new song/video by Rebecca Loebe entitled ‘Bees and Zombies’ that mixes the worrisome global decline in honeybee populations with struggling romance and the Zombie Apocalypse: Just check out some of these lyrics: [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
When you choose to associate with unsavory and violent individuals and institutions it should come as little surprise if you are harmed as well, but still it’s rare to see such a crass and transparent abuse of trust between a business and its customer base as this franchise opportunity being marketed by a rabidly Anti-Zombie [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
Here at The ZRC we’re big backers of public events celebrating the Undead and allowing them to gather in large numbers in safety (at least, assuming Tom Savini isn’t lurking nearby). However, we cannot lend our approval to the establishment of a ‘separate-but-equal’ treatment of the Differently Animated, where Zombies are welcome to spend their [...]
John Sears | May 25, 2011
We commented previously on the trailer for ‘Rigamortis: A Zombie Love Story’ here on the ZRC blog and were subsequently informed via the comments that the movie had gone up for free on Youtube for a limited time. Having watched the movie in its entirety now, I can safely say that The Zombie Rights Campaign [...]