John Sears | February 24, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign has been trying to spread the word that there’s no need to fear the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ for some time now (we prefer the term ‘Global Reanimation Block Party’ at any rate). But there are those out there that really like, for some reason, the idea of your largely peaceful and law-abiding [...]
John Sears | February 24, 2012
The ZRC is on Facebook, so we’ve, ahem, noticed the constant, frequent, and to many users maddening aesthetic tinkering that goes on with that particular social networking site. It doesn’t really bother me, because I went into Facebook assuming it was evil, but many users hate it. So it might be a PR misstep for [...]
John Sears | February 23, 2012
This sounds like a fun opportunity for some outreach to Zombie fiction writers in the Northwest, if any Z-Rights activists in the area want to attend: Simply Twisted Productions invites you to attend their first Book Date at the Northwest Film Forum (located at 1515 12th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98122) on February 25th, 2012. Doors [...]
John Sears | February 23, 2012
I’ve pined for a good (and available) Zombie beer on the ZRC Twitter off and on for some time, but the joys of Facebook brought me news of hot sauce, long my first love when it comes to bottled food concoctions – *Zombie themed* hot sauce. Observe: Yes, HauntedHotSauce.com does indeed sell a variety of [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2012
Unsatisfied with tying Zombies to every social ill rhetorically, some woefully ignorant individuals are stooping to forging the link between Undeath and various unpleasant things themselves: Gainesville Police Department Lt. Art Adkins can deliver this line with a straight face: “We’ve had an uptick in recent zombie activity.” … Until this month, police were using [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2012
I swear, if nothing else the forces of Anti-Zombiism are fiercely devoted to innovative new uses of social media to advance their cause. As are we. The sheer creativity our foes possess, however, with regard to marketing is something else: So, I’ve been working on a trailer for a new Year Zero feature film since [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2012
The Zombie Rights Campaign set out to the local independent theatre on Sunday afternoon to see ‘A Morning Stroll’, the Oscar-nominated short animated film that’s been causing some buzz. The terms ‘blood-thirsty’ or ‘Zombie dystopia’ are bandied about quite frequently, and naturally caused the ZRC considerable concern. Sadly, the film was even worse than I [...]
John Sears | February 19, 2012
Academia has flirted with Anti-Zombie attitudes and prejudices in the past but this is, I have to say, the most direct use I’ve yet seen of prevailing Undead hatred yet in an academic study: According to a new study, feeling fear may actually help people to better engage with abstract art. In the study, which [...]
John Sears | February 18, 2012
Now that’s a headline you don’t see every day, isn’t it? True though; one of this year’s nominated Best Animated Short Films has Zombies in it: Pixar is riding a losing streak, Canada has two films in the running, and the contenders include everything from a bloodthirsty, chicken-chasing zombie to a kindly Humpty Dumpty. … [...]
John Sears | February 17, 2012
You know how there’s a phase, perhaps quite lengthy, where kids become obsessed and fascinated by bodily functions, especially making crude jokes about them? Well, perhaps our enemies on the Anti-Zombie side of the Zombie Rights question are still children in the head as well as at heart, because look at the serious topics they [...]