John Sears | May 29, 2011
We’ve condemned the open-air game of simulated Living Supremacist conflict known and played on many campuses as ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ before here at the ZRC. It’s repulsive, divisive and perpetuates harmful stereotypes of the Differently Animated. A ‘game’ like that should have no place at an institution of higher learning. Thus this news story has [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
I have talked on Twitter and elsewhere about my frustrations with Paypal. We’ve had some customer service issues; a payment reversed here, some other difficulties there. It’s a bit clunky, and hard to use some features for our store. So I started looking into Google Checkout. At first it looked great; full of useful features, [...]
John Sears | May 27, 2011
Ok, Europe, can we have a quiet word please? …. All right, I think we’re alone. Look; what is wrong with you people precisely? At first it seemed like a fluke here and there, a movie like ’28 Days Later’ would come out, or ‘Shaun of the Dead’, that sort of thing. We were inclined [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
When you choose to associate with unsavory and violent individuals and institutions it should come as little surprise if you are harmed as well, but still it’s rare to see such a crass and transparent abuse of trust between a business and its customer base as this franchise opportunity being marketed by a rabidly Anti-Zombie [...]
John Sears | May 26, 2011
Here at The ZRC we’re big backers of public events celebrating the Undead and allowing them to gather in large numbers in safety (at least, assuming Tom Savini isn’t lurking nearby). However, we cannot lend our approval to the establishment of a ‘separate-but-equal’ treatment of the Differently Animated, where Zombies are welcome to spend their [...]
John Sears | May 25, 2011
Ok, I know I say I’m outraged about a lot of stuff here on the blog, but this story really, really makes me mad: Are you ready for the Zombie Apocalypse? Get your set of zombie targets today. Targets are 18 X 24 inches and feature 3 different graphic patterns. The 3 different target patterns [...]
John Sears | May 24, 2011
We’ve talked a bit about the nexus of Zombies and religion here on the ZRC blog before; it’s hardly our forte, but the fairly obvious significance of the fact that Jesus (in the Christian religion) not just came back from the dead himself but raised one of the first Zombies described in Western literature is [...]
John Sears | May 22, 2011
The Zombie Rights Campaign has had a long and eventful history with the film today known as ‘III Slices of Life’. Even before we had begun formal operations the proto-ZRC saw the first published segment of ‘III Slices of Life’, then called ‘W.O.R.M.’ and now incorporated into the final anthology as ‘Work Life’, at The [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
At first glance this ‘Zombie Beach Party’ sounds like an amazingly fun time: In celebration of our 2010 Guinness Record achievement as the “Largest Gathering of Zombies in the World” we will be hosting our first ever “Zombie Beach Party” in Asbury Park! On Saturday, May 28th zombies will once again converge on the Asbury [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
Our piece on the Better Sleep Council’s campaign about ‘Zombieitis’ apparently reached the upper echelons of the Mattress Lobby because we got a relatively conciliatory response on the matter, which you can read here. It’s not perfect and we take issue with a bit of it but still, the door has once again been opened [...]