John Sears | March 15, 2012
We got passed the trailer for ‘The Dead Mile’ a while ago on Twitter and I’ve been remiss in not mentioning it before now, so here, take a look and be suitably outraged: What’s going on here? Well, the film’s About page has some clues. Essentially we’re talking about a Zombie Apocalypse movie whose ‘outbreak’, [...]
John Sears | March 9, 2012
Well, while we’re not exactly surprised that an institution of higher learning has decided to officially Anti-Zombie prejudice in the curriculum, The Zombie Rights Campaign is nevertheless saddened by this news: EAST LANSING, Mich. – Forget Advanced Political Theory or even Introduction to Chemistry. The one class that everyone is dying to take this summer [...]
John Sears | March 2, 2012
Are you satisfied now, PopCap? Do you see what you’ve started? Nothing quite like real life plants vs zombies. In this one they show Matt Nagle telling you exactly which plants you should be looking to invest in to keep your lawn safe from those pesky undead. Yes indeed, he offers advice on which sharp, [...]
John Sears | February 22, 2012
Unsatisfied with tying Zombies to every social ill rhetorically, some woefully ignorant individuals are stooping to forging the link between Undeath and various unpleasant things themselves: Gainesville Police Department Lt. Art Adkins can deliver this line with a straight face: “We’ve had an uptick in recent zombie activity.” … Until this month, police were using [...]
John Sears | February 16, 2012
Well, with Zombies being associated with every negative thing from aging retail stores to cash-strapped companies to various animal parasites and even seasonal colds, I guess it was inevitable that Zombies would be tied to terrorism.. again. We saw this before in the remarkably-awful ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction’, which I had hoped would be the [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
In the growing Tablet pc era laptops are often seen as an endangered species* and the question of how to promote the older form factor against the very trendy tablet market seems to be driving some computer makers barmy. Or, in the case of Lenovo, into simulated Anti-Zombie violence: Behold the first absolutely wacky advertisement [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2011
We got forwarded this link on the ZRC Twitter over the holiday weekend, and naturally, we were disgusted: Sample Lyrics: Throwing a rock Unloading my Glock Hurling Molotovs Nothing makes ‘em stop Living in a land where everyone is dead Gonna put this one last bullet right through my own head. Yes, it’s a ‘festive’ [...]
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 22, 2011
A commenter on the ZRC blog left a link to this little Youtube ‘gem’: As you can see, we’re dealing with two separate media products here: a webseries being titled ‘Songbook for the Civilized Zombie’, apparently about a ‘redeemed’ Zombie who has been coerced/brainwashed into eradicating other Undead individuals, and the song within the first [...]
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. [...]