John Sears | May 20, 2011
We’ve written before here on the ZRC blog about the unfortunate tendency of many commentators to use the word ‘Zombie’, a term designating a group of individuals by their unique cultural and to some degree biological/political status, as a term for ‘anything I object to’. Most frequently, ‘Zombie’ misappropriated in this fashion is an adjective [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
I wanted to deal with this shocking and almost unspeakable offense by an agency of the United States Federal Government sooner, but their blasted original blog page was down.. a lot.. and the ZRC always tries to evaluate primary sources when feasible in the name of journalistic integrity. Still, it’s getting a ton of press: [...]
John Sears | May 16, 2011
Here at the ZRC, we take intellectual property seriously. Note that I don’t say ‘copyright’, I say intellectual property, and there’s a good reason for that distinction. Intellectual property is the precious commodity of creative thought and copyright is an antiquated and abusive system to try and guarantee payment for the use of said commodity. [...]
John Sears | May 15, 2011
The art director likes to go through our sitemeter logs in the quest to find out who is linking to our proud organization from around the world wide web and see precisely where our much-valued readers are finding out about The Cause, and so she discovered that we were getting some hits to the site [...]
John Sears | May 13, 2011
The ZRC was very disturbed to see the recent anti-democratic behavior and preemptive police abuse directed at peaceful protesters merely DRESSED like the Differently Animated, so we are very glad to see that the Undead and Undead-allied of the United Kingdom aren’t about to take that travesty lying down (in graves or otherwise): UNDEAD UPRISING: [...]
John Sears | May 7, 2011
You might think that the ZRC would be happy that this has apparently been declared ‘Zombie Awareness Month’. After all, Zombies do need more awareness – of their plight in society, their legal disenfranchisement, of the media’s endless campaign of misinformation against them and of the need for reform. Sadly, however, that is precisely the [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
It’s that time of year again: the sun is brighter, the birds are even more annoying, the squirrels and other local wildlife are preparing their siege of my backyard… and most importantly, with the long and ridiculously brutal winter over, it’s time for the ZRC to do some public events! Here’s what our calendar looks [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
Sometimes we get a bit of gentle ribbing from the various ZRC Friends in the Horror news biz, since we have such a singular mission and focus, and so I had a bit of advance warning about this slightly… satirical take on a new Think Geek Anti-Zombie product coming out: And now a tasty little [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
I was all prepared to be unhappy about this story but then got a pleasant surprise, or at least, a potentially pleasant one: Focus Features and LAIKA, the companies that gave us the standout animated feature CORALINE, take another venture into genre territory with the 3D stop-motion movie PARANORMAN. The long-gestating zombie project now has [...]
John Sears | May 4, 2011
There was a fascinating column up the other day on The Zombie Feed from their resident Zombie Advice columnist, Putrescence. The advice-seeker wanted some counsel on what to do about a friend that seems to be a closeted Zombie: How do you ask someone something like that? Hey, man, are you dead? Maggots got you [...]