John Sears | March 21, 2011
We’ve written extensively about the hit independent horror anthology ‘III Slices of Life’ before here at the ZRC; we reviewed it under a previous title, ‘Slices of Life’, attended the World Premiere in Chicago at the Portage Theatre, and have conducted considerable outreach to director Anthony Sumner and one of the stars of the film, [...]
John Sears | March 20, 2011
Here at the ZRC we’re trying to take back the term ‘Zombie horde’ for Zombies. Zombie collective action is no different from Living collective action, and we’ve learned just how vital working together is here in Madison over the last several weeks. At the same time, like the rest of the world, we here at [...]
John Sears | March 18, 2011
Our good friends at The Horror Society have some details on this fall’s release of the latest in cutting edge Euro-Zom movies, the third installment in the [REC] series: The original [REC] crew are back, ready to submit their ensemble cast to another fight for survival against the zombie infection, this time to the backdrop [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
That, and better security on the signs themselves, I suppose: For several hours early Monday morning, motorists driving south on Foothills Parkway in Boulder received an unnerving warning from an electric road-construction sign: “Zombies ahead.” … Zombie-loving hackers have been breaking into programmable electronic road signs across the country for years and posting the warning [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
Bear with me a bit as I actually employ my degree in Criminal Justice/Political Science a bit, folks: Frequently in Anti-Zombie fiction, we are presented with a certain narrative, that of the Reluctant Protagonist Who Must Combat the Zombie Hordes. In this storyline, the protagonist, despite acting like a sociopathic madman or madwoman, looting, pillaging, [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
A truly disturbing story out of Georgia, where apparently ‘Zombie’ has become a code word for people the police find undesirable and want to defame, even harass: WARNER ROBINS — The houses along the half-mile street, Southern Avenue, are outwardly worn, and the people who live in the neighborhood are well-aware the street is ridden [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
I haven’t uploaded absolutely everything yet, but I have a decent slate of videos the ZRC took at the rally yesterday to share with our dedicated blogging audience. (Opening ceremonies, singalong of an old union song.) (A fantastic speech about the natural alliance of farmers, who are after all rural labor, and traditional urban labor [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
At the rally Saturday I saw a man holding a sign that, unfortunately, perpetuates some negative stereotypes about the Differently Animated. Now, of course, some Zombies like brains. Some Zombies require brains as part of their balanced diet, in the same way that Living people need Vitamin C or diabetics need insulin. It’s nothing to [...]
John Sears | March 13, 2011
Yesterday I went down to the protests at the Capitol, and they were easily the biggest yet. It took me an hour to get parked and I was using the city garage furthest from the square. If I had to estimate, given that previous large protests were rated at 80k+ people, this one probably involved [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2011
I’ve been doing a lot of Madison related stuff here on the blog lately, and have received, shall we say, polite criticism for drifting off the main topic a bit, so I think it would be useful to outline precisely why the current struggle here in Wisconsin matters for Zombies and for the Zombie Rights [...]