John Sears | February 13, 2011
It all started with a google alert in my inbox that mentioned this one page on Gizmodo describing an allegedly ‘Zombie’ SNES: Run. Run! Run for your life, but don’t step over giant green pipe on your way out, or the zombie Super Nintendo will catch you to suck your blood and soul. The damn [...]
John Sears | February 8, 2011
In the process of writing the belated birthday greeting the ZRC gave Creepshow maestro and, err, Father of the Modern Anti-Zombie Film George Romero, google yielded an interview from last year with Vanity Fair that I missed, and there’s some fascinating, and disturbing, stuff in there: Eric Spitznagel: To paraphrase Freud, sometimes things have symbolism [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2011
Keep in mind at the outset that everything in this review stems from a perusal of the sample material from ‘Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime’ available here; I have not, nor will I ever, read the full book, unless I am somehow abducted and forced into an Orwellian nightmare of interrogation, at which point, this [...]
John Sears | January 31, 2011
I can’t embed it here (no doubt because they fear criticism) but Metallica apparently put out a video some time ago for a song ‘cleverly’ called ‘All Nightmare Long’ – and it’s very Anti-Zombie. I learned this from a morning DJ who was raving about how ‘cool’ it was after playing the tune on the [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
It’s distressing to hear news like this: Two networks are following in The Walking Dead’s footsteps. The CW is developing The Awakening, a show about two sisters dealing with their relationship and a zombie apocalypse. And NBC’s developing a show from McG’s production company, Zombies vs. Vampires. Really? It’s not bad enough that Zombies take [...]
John Sears | January 25, 2011
Sometimes, even though we strive to keep the ZRC focused on its mission and as non-partisan as possible, events in ‘conventional’ politics compel us to respond, like we did to a Republican plan here in Wisconsin to disenfranchise Zombie voters, amongst many others. Other times we’re simply inspired by the actions of other lobbying groups, [...]
John Sears | January 16, 2011
I know, I know, I’ve talked a lot about these faux historical analyses of Zombie media popularity over time a lot lately. First with i09, then with Flowtv, now with Wired, right? Believe it or not, Wired’s is one of the weakest, since they don’t show, or even explain, their work in any meaningful way. [...]
John Sears | January 13, 2011
Maybe I’m being a bit oversensitive, but I still feel there needs to be some pushback on the notion that Zombie Walks are some sort of exceptional event rather than the Differently Animated embracing and exercising their First Amendment rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Witness this newspaper piece on the controversy over whether [...]
John Sears | January 12, 2011
Google pointed me toward an article supposedly about the nexus of Zombies and knitting recently, and sadly, it wasn’t about a circle of Zombies who knitted scarves for orphans as a hobby, or what not. Instead it’s about a sort of club/get-together for people who like to knit, named in part after Zombieland, the odious [...]
John Sears | January 11, 2011
As a handy short example of how lately the mainstream media is desperate to shoehorn Anti-Zombiism into every story they possibly can, look no further than this: It’s a dilemma of the computer age: you’re on a zombie killing spree in the virtual world while in the real one your beer mug has run dry? [...]