John Sears | February 10, 2011
While we’re happy in general to get sympathetic attention directed at Zombies, this.. isn’t actually a Zombie. At least, not a Zombie *person*. Meanwhile, check out the ‘statement’ from this ‘Zombie’, who they purport to be a regional chairman for the Zombie Anti-Defamation League: Aaaa-UUUHHHHH-nnngh! Why people run from zombie? Zombie not hurt you! Zombie [...]
John Sears | February 8, 2011
Just a short post as once again, we find people using the word ‘Zombie’ to describe something they disapprove of being unusually resilient or durable: Is it Halloween already? Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is bringing a discontinued chipset back from the grave, zombie-style. Citing “specific requests from computer makers” after “extensive discussions” on the topic, the [...]
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 5, 2011
I was really saddened to hear about this story featuring an Anti-Zombie professor from my undergrad school, Indiana University: There is something keeping Stephen Watt up at night, and it’s not vampires, demons or malignant pudding, but rather a simple question: why is it that Americans love killing zombies? Watt, an English professor from Indiana [...]
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 16, 2011
It just wouldn’t be a week monitoring the pop-culture/journalism feeds without another piece that combines ivory tower cloud-talking with dubious historical analysis to frame a piece expressing befuddlement with, and general distaste for, the presence and popularity of the Differently Animated in media: What are we to make of AMC’s The Walking Dead? The question [...]
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? [...]
John Sears | January 6, 2011
Mighty Car Mods out of Australia have put out a video detailing how to armor and equip a car to combat the Undead so that crazy Aussie survivalists can live out their paranoid delusions of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ in style: The basic premise here is just patently insulting. Why would you need to make a [...]