John Sears | July 19, 2011
The supposedly left-leaning UK rag ‘The Guardian’ has been in the ZRC’s sights before, caught touting flagrantly Anti-Zombie viewpoints in the wake of the Leicester affair. Given that, I suppose it was inevitable they would show up and add their two cents to this tragic Bristol City Council story: Local authorities routinely have detailed emergency [...]
John Sears | July 18, 2011
So.. Madison got hammered by a pretty major power outage today. At least 4700 homes out for a while. Aaaaaand it came right in the middle of dinner for us. Combine that with a Twitter outage that’s still going on and the backed up conversations I have on there, and it’s a mess for online [...]
John Sears | July 18, 2011
We’re always happy to hear about another peaceful opportunity for the Differently Animated to get out there and meet their Living fellow-citizens in a fun and festive atmosphere, so naturally the ZRC was pleased to learn about an annual Zombie Walk in Hobart, Tasmania from our Australian correspondent @H0110wPeTaL on Twitter. However, even though the [...]
John Sears | July 18, 2011
A short time ago we declined to switch our checkout system to Google Checkout because of their rather onerous censorship policies, which as free speech advocates the ZRC cannot condone. Now it seems that Paypal wants to irritate us too: At a company event today at its headquarters in San Jose, PayPal provided at least [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
We’ve talked previously about how the Anti-Zombie bigot forces as well as the press in the UK got all upset that Leicester didn’t have a ready plan in place to oppress the Differently Animated in the event of the farcical and childish ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ fantasy. The ZRC blog also covered a peaceful protest/response to that [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
Anti-Zombie prejudice has been splashed into the Western genre before, notably in Marvel Zombies 5 for instance. More broadly, horror-westerns have been seen sporadically, including ‘Dead Bones’ with Ken Foree (of ‘Dawn of the Dead’ infamy). Still I have to give this film, which from the trailer appears rabidly Anti-Zombie, some credit for sheer scale [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
I have fond memories of my four years at Indiana University. Well, four years in school for me, then living on campus for a while with the art director, but you get the idea. Indiana University has a fairly prominent student paper, the Indiana Daily Student. As the title suggests, it is written and published [...]
John Sears | July 16, 2011
Very little seems to be available about this upcoming Zombie Film on the internet, but there is a trailer, so let’s engage in some critical analysis that may prove frightfully incorrect later when actual facts are available, shall we? First, the trailer and description from Youtube: A teaser trailer for the upcoming zombie film, Stranger. [...]
John Sears | July 16, 2011
It’s always disturbing to learn that an icon in public life is an Anti-Zombie bigot. I mean, Max Brooks made a name for himself being evil, but undoubtedly some comic book fans were disheartened when Robert Kirkman showed his true colors. Woody Harrelson? I never saw that one coming. But the Cookie Monster, beloved children’s [...]
John Sears | July 15, 2011
‘Fido’, which I’m working on screenshots of for a full review for the ZRC blog, famously explored the concept of abusive humans using Zombies as slaves, and what might happen when one little boy treated his Zombie more like a pet, and eventually, a member of the family instead. It was an interesting, outside the [...]