John Sears | December 20, 2010
I can’t think of any other particularly good explanation for his continued abuse of the term ‘Zombie’ in talking about whatever persistent untruths are bugging him (today) about his chosen profession, Economics. A field which seems to be slightly less scientific than, say, Baron Mardi’s magic sombrero ritual to raise the dead. We’ve previously seen [...]
John Sears | December 13, 2010
I was reluctant to read this summary of the history of Zombies in American pop culture, especially since it’s from AMC (purveyors of the despicable Walking Dead grand guignol spectacle), but, shockingly, unlike NPR and the NYT, AMC actually seems to have people who know what they’re doing working the Zombie history beat, and it’s [...]
John Sears | December 11, 2010
It’s to be expected, though not of course approved of, that The Walking Dead’s enormous commercial success will cause a certain amount of navel-gazing and faux-introspection on the part of the Mainstream Media, attempting to explain its own staggering financial haul even as their various media platforms fade into increasing obsolescence in the post-modern era. [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
I know this is starting to resemble beating a dead horse (which would be cruel, and if the horse was Zombified, actively against our mandate) but could we please, PLEASE stop using the word ‘Zombie’ to signify anything with which a writer actively disagrees and wishes would disappear? Examples abound: Academics have also begun to [...]
John Sears | December 9, 2010
This relatively recent piece in Foreign Policy serves as a fascinating and outrageous reminder of the ways in which the academic and policy advocacy world at large continues to mistreat the Differently Animated, and also how world goverments, acting upon such misinformation, might unleash large-scale tragedy upon the Undead community. FP starts out with a [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2010
I was alerted to this ‘Dead of the Class’ project by our friends at the Horror Society when a plugin went berserk and dumped a ton of older posts onto their twitter feed, so there’s a certain serendipity to the whole affair. At the first, it sounded somewhat promising: Brian Cummings latest series Dead of [...]
John Sears | December 2, 2010
Lately, especially since the Federal Reserve’s mandated audit information started coming out, there’s been a term I’ve seen a lot in the media that the Zombie Rights Campaign needs to address (and correct the record upon): ‘Zombie Bank’ This particular slander against the Differently Animated is showing up everywhere. From noted Lefty blogger Atrios: Zombies [...]
John Sears | November 23, 2010
It’s truly tragic that this article detailing the ‘history’ of Zombies in America is a cut above the average; sad, in that such a shallow and defamatory, not to mention dubiously ahistorical piece is still so much better than most. What the io9 piece gets right, and almost everybody else misses, is that the history [...]
John Sears | November 12, 2010
I’d heard of the new Call of Duty game dipping its toes into the sea of Anti-Zombie gaming of late, but this was a surprise to be sure: According to leaked videos posted online, the coming video game release “Call of Duty: Black Ops” features a sequence in which Richard Nixon teams up with John [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
This article from NPR entitled ’8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies’ is a truly awful piece of mishmash, patently obvious trivia combined with wild speculation on fashionable topics and theories mixed with outright factual errors. Not just errors about Zombies; errors about filmmaking, about the basic history of horror movies and the pop [...]