John Sears | April 22, 2011
Here’s another misuse of the Zed word for the list: The glut of hotels built as the Celtic Tiger roared, has created a dangerous combination for Ireland’s tourism secter — too many hotels… many of which would have closed but were bailed out by the Irish banking system. The result… the Zombie Hotel – a [...]
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 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 13, 2011
Here at the ZRC we’ve reported quite a few times on the hysterical Zombie-bashing that results when journalists learn about Toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disorder whose precise effects are as yet unknown, but which may subtly and slightly alter behavior. Cracked put out a book flogging the disease in connection with a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. Pop-science ‘journalists’ [...]
John Sears | April 6, 2011
First, let me say, wow. This is one of the densest and most complicated analyses of Zombie media I’ve ever seen. Second, of course, I have to say that it’s very deeply flawed and obviously incorrect on a number of points. This PopMatters article, entitled ‘Zombies, Reavers, Butchers, and Actuals in Joss Whedon’s Work’, by [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
This kind of speaks for itself, but what the hey: The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into “”Sexy Female Zombies””. What is it about Zombie Bimbos or “”Zimbies”” that are starting to gain the worlds interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture [...]
John Sears | April 3, 2011
I really didn’t want to have to write this post. In the wake of our original reporting on the Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker, a ‘Citizen Journalism’ site covering the Madison protests decided to copy large portions of our text without attribution as part of a slightly longer piece on the Zombie Walk. In fact, [...]
John Sears | March 20, 2011
Google pointed me toward this Opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen by one Roger Collier today, which purports to reexamine the negative attitudes so many hold toward Zombies. Only of course, it does no such thing. The first clue was in the title: ‘Zombies were people, too.’ (The capitalization is in the original, and I [...]
John Sears | March 17, 2011
The news is going around the web about a book that the former Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue magazine has coming out about Zombies: The zombie phenomenon is unique in Western popular culture. From its origins in the voodoo beliefs of Haiti, it has become a key ingredient in today’s cinema, popular literature and comics. With [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
Often we have to explain our position on a particular item or product here on the ZRC blog, delving into nuance, exploring the perhaps unintentional way in which a particular author, artist or developer may have insulted Zombies or otherwise harmed the Differently Animated. Then we have columns like this: But vampires have held a [...]