John Sears | January 14, 2012
My background (and degree, at least until Indiana University realizes what they’ve done) is in Political Science, and I also desperately crave original Zombie projects for the ZRC to look at, so this sounds right up my alley. In fact, I think it may have parked there long-term: Bringing blood-thirsty zombies and communists to the [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2011
I’m not kidding with that title, folks: Hollywood has come to Youngstown to shoot a movie in less than a week with hundreds of local actors, extras and production staff. “The Zombinator,” an independent horror flick, is in production right now and uses Youngstown and surrounding communities as its backdrop. … Myers first came to [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Look, I get that there’s a great deal of concern about physical fitness and exposing children to a potential love of the outdoors, I really do. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about getting that exposure for your spawn, and this? This is the wrong way. This week, kids from [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2011
Here at the ZRC we tend to be critical of the ongoing trend to just splash a bit of Zombie flavor into anything entertainment related and rake in the bucks; we even have a blog tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’. This comes up a *lot*. Yet when I saw this story about [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2011
Musician and comedian Tim Minchin recently ran into a bit of censorship over a not-terribly-edgy comedy song about Jesus he composed for a Pre-Christmas special on British tv network ITV: So I got to writing. Being Christmas, I thought it would be fun to do a song about Jesus, but being TV, I knew it [...]
John Sears | December 17, 2011
I trust you’re all aware of the proud list of nominees we selected for the shortlist for this, the ZRC’s award honoring the very best and noblest efforts by a Zombie to improve the public image of the Zombie Community and advance the cause of Zombie Rights. If not then I do humbly suggest you [...]
John Sears | December 15, 2011
Now here’s a disturbing piece largely attempting to justify, within a legal framework, the persecution of the Differently Animated, while warning potential persecutors about possible legal liability: Let me interrupt our regular programming to ponder some of the legal issues raised by the sudden appearance of zombie hordes. Zombies have absolutely no control over their [...]
John Sears | December 14, 2011
It’s amazing how far some people will go to create imaginary scenarios in which the Undead are the bad guys. Even when, typically, it’s the Living in those same scenarios, who, by any reasonable standard are causing the trouble. Case in point: the people who get trampled or hurt every holiday season jostling for scarce [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2011
You know the phenomenon where someone appears to be flattering you but in fact is making a smarmy, sarcastic insult? There’s a term for those: ‘backhanded’ compliments, and Zombies get them quite a bit. Usually it’s a way of playing up how, supposedly, unintelligent and savage Zombies are – but boy, aren’t they persistent? Brother. [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2011
Not to fall into the ‘Argument from authority’ trap, but sometimes it is nice to get a bit of validation when someone you respect publicly endorses a controversial position you’ve taken. Case in point: George Takei, noted actor and civil rights activist, agrees with the ZRC about Twilight and its sparkly vampires: Thank you, Mr. [...]