John Sears | January 6, 2012
We’re a pretty tolerant area for the Zombie Community here in Wisconsin, and the Undead are active members of our communities, as we’ve copiously documented on the blog. So when I heard about an explicitly Anti-Zombie angle on a local gaming convention I was shocked and offended: WESTON — Every year, the D.C. Everest Gaming [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Look, I get that there’s a great deal of concern about physical fitness and exposing children to a potential love of the outdoors, I really do. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about getting that exposure for your spawn, and this? This is the wrong way. This week, kids from [...]
John Sears | November 4, 2011
I appreciate an attempt to delve into ‘Zombie Culture’ but I think this video misses the mark and instead hits the Zombie Cosplay segment of the horror community (a practice also known at least under some circumstances as ‘Greenface’): In reality, Zombie Culture is about so much more than just scaring people. It’s a diverse [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
Just wanted to make one last post about our awesome trip out to ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ both to thank the city of Elgin and the various groups that put on the show for having us, and to show off some fun pictures that didn’t get showcased anywhere else. At one end of the street [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
In our last update I talked about the quite frankly spectacular show put on at the ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ event and how difficult our task of spreading Zombie Awareness in such an environment looked upon arrival. I mean, they hit just about every conceivable trope of the ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ genre of pernicious fiction to [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2011
So as you may know from previous blog entries and Twitter, the ZRC attended the ‘Nightmare on Chicago Street’ event in Elgin, Illinois on Saturday, and we even managed to strike a significant blow for Zombie Rights along the way. More on that in a later post. But before we get into our own ZRC [...]
John Sears | October 28, 2011
Remember the apparently No-Zombies-Allowed event being held in Elgin, Illinois this upcoming weekend that we previously mentioned on the blog? Well, clearly the ZRC wanted, nay, needed to do something about this disturbing instance of Zompartheid, and so we called in a couple of favors with our many connections in the horror community (ie, we [...]
John Sears | October 18, 2011
We’ve heard some buzz about this upcoming block-party-like event in Elgin: EVACUATION ROUTE DURING ZOMBIE ATTACK: Elgin, Illinois – Chicago Street, between Douglas and Villa. Entry points at the intersection of Spring and Chicago. ZOMBIE SAFE SHELTER AREA WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH: Bands, vendors, street performers, burlesque performance, costume contest and a special appearance by [...]
John Sears | October 13, 2011
Being October now we’re seeing an awful lot of events like this one come up, sadly Anti-Zombie: For the past six months, Metzger has held down her administrative duties at Davis, as well as a part-time job at Naro Expanded Video in Ghent and a demanding gig as a community organizer of sorts. Last year, [...]
John Sears | October 9, 2011
I really don’t know what to say; this development has left me almost speechless: TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas emergency management officials are urging residents to prepare for an invasion of zombies as part of a national disaster readiness campaign. … The Kansas Division of Emergency Management says if people are prepared for zombie attacks, they’re [...]