John Sears | October 18, 2011
We’ve heard some buzz about this upcoming block-party-like event in Elgin: EVACUATION ROUTE DURING ZOMBIE ATTACK: Elgin, Illinois – Chicago Street, between Douglas and Villa. Entry points at the intersection of Spring and Chicago. ZOMBIE SAFE SHELTER AREA WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH: Bands, vendors, street performers, burlesque performance, costume contest and a special appearance by [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
Background: Noted author Neil Gaiman hatched a sort of pro-literacy/pro-literature movement for Halloween which has come to be known as ‘All Hallow’s Read’. Put simply: you should, asserts Gaiman, give scary books out for Halloween alongside candy, which as he notes, is also very important. All well and good. But why does the promotional video [...]
John Sears | October 16, 2011
Here are two events, just two, I saw advertised on the way home from Z-Town: The Zombie Musical: Sadly we’ll be in Bloomington, IN for The Dark Carnival that weekend! Still, we wish our fellow Madisonians the best of luck celebrating this holiday season in a Zombie, and indeed, Mummy Friendly manner.
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
John Sears | October 12, 2011
This is just bizarre. Basically, Australia’s had a lot of natural disasters lately. Last year, it seems, a lot of Aussies in turn used social media, Facebook and the like to get updates on public safety related information, rather than legacy media like TV broadcasts and radio. All well and good so far. To facilitate [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2011
This story is very sad, even if it happened a long time ago: Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths — evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies. … “In this case, the stones in the mouth [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2011
I really don’t know what to say; this development has left me almost speechless: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas emergency management officials are urging residents to prepare for an invasion of zombies as part of a national disaster readiness campaign. … The Kansas Division of Emergency Management says if people are prepared for zombie attacks, they’re [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
For those who do not know, World Zombie Day is an annual event to coordinate Zombie Walks and similar events to collect food for the needy, and this year’s WZD is tomorrow: World Zombie Day, a day when all fans of zombie culture can join together in an international effort to alleviate world hunger. At [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
Really, I think we all know where Zack Snyder stands on Zombie Rights, given his helming of the incredibly odious, gun-fetishizing ‘Dawn of the Dead’ remake, but apparently that wasn’t enough degradation to pile on the Differently Animated community, and he has more cinematic evil waiting to be inflicted on the public: How will this [...]
John Sears | September 22, 2011
This story about prejudice and the negative framing of the so-called ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ (instead of the much preferable term ‘Global Reanimation Block Party’) is more than a little bizarre: “Debbie Does End of Days”? San Fernando Valley porn purveyors Pink Visual may be the only adult film company equipped to release such a title, as [...]