John Sears | July 5, 2011
I know that it’s one of the most popular shows on television but I really wish that the mainstream media could remember that popularity is based on *hate*. I mean, seriously. Just because it makes money that doesn’t make it right and it shouldn’t make it socially acceptable. TV Guide, for those of you who [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
As if you hadn’t been deluged enough already with ‘World War Z’ news, the mega-production of evil is rolling ever onward: Now, having bought the rights in 2007, Brad Pitt has finally began filming his zombie film World War Z And fans have been given their first glimpse of the living dead as filming continued [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
I really like it when Zombie events can help raise money for worthy causes, can bring people together in pursuit of some worthy goal. But not all the Zombie-related charity events out there are Zombie Friendly, even if they are working toward one of those worthy goals. Case in point, ‘Zombie Buffet 5k’, a charity [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
Another day, another tenuous excuse to bash Zombies when talking about anything unpleasant to the writer. Case in point: in 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, or to be more precise, it triggered the complete collapse of ridiculously antiquated and defective flood control systems, and the subsequent waters devastated New Orleans. A Six Flags park [...]
John Sears | July 4, 2011
If nothing else these periodic updates on the local fauna we’re attracting here at the ZRC Compound by letting native plants take over the backyard is good for getting a bit of random attention, so… This is the older rabbit with one eye that occasionally comes around our compound. I don’t know how it lost [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Just putting this one up on the big Zombie Walk board, so to speak: add Duluth to the list of cities that hosts an outing for the Differently Animated, sympathizers and just hangers-on: If you saw a bloody-mouthed, limping zombie Thursday wailing about brains and dragging entrails along Superior Street, don’t worry: It wasn’t the [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Look, seriously, journalists out there? Stop calling everything Zombie. Just because something is dormant or acts a little differently or in a way you disapprove of, that does not make it a Zombie, with all the challenges that entails and rights that it SHOULD entail. Still, at least this most recent example isn’t as patently [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Mega-huge Living Supremacist adaptation of Max Brooks’ infamous ‘World War Z’ hit more snags recently: World War Z, the would-be epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history of a fictitious zombie pandemic and near-apocalypse, spent so many months in development hell that the project seemed doomed, even with the presence of director Marc Forster and [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
So Seattle and New Jersey have a rivalry going over holding the title of the World’s Largest Zombie Walk from the Guinness people (records, not beer) and apparently Seattle was slated to have another go on Saturday. The media coverage is.. shallow but supportive: There’s something alluring about zombies — that white skin, those sunken [...]
John Sears | July 2, 2011
Seriously, I mean, ok, ‘The Mist’ was a bit underwhelming and ‘The Green Mile’ had Tom Hanks, who is kind of my nemesis, but I will always treasure Shawshank (who doesn’t?), so even knowing Frank Darabont was involved with ‘The Walking Dead’ hurt, it really did. Still, his continued involvement mystifies and offends me in [...]