John Sears | April 1, 2012
I really don’t know what to make of some of the stuff we see in our email inboxes at the ZRC sometimes: Or, and this is most likely, there will be a zombie apocalypse and the zombies will chew through all the charger cords to all our electronic devices (these will clearly not be brain-sucking [...]
John Sears | March 4, 2012
The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently: This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory. A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of [...]
John Sears | February 25, 2012
Another day, another pop-journalism story about the supposed menace posed by the peaceful Zombie Community: Look at you, all plump and fleshy, with a quickening pulse and body jam-packed with sweet meats. That brain of yours, with the scrumptious gray matter and thinking cap makes certain re-animated corpses crave a dining bib. So what are [...]
John Sears | February 17, 2012
You know how there’s a phase, perhaps quite lengthy, where kids become obsessed and fascinated by bodily functions, especially making crude jokes about them? Well, perhaps our enemies on the Anti-Zombie side of the Zombie Rights question are still children in the head as well as at heart, because look at the serious topics they [...]
John Sears | February 12, 2012
Given the return of ‘The Walking Dead’, io9 (our longtime foes) decided to solicit opinions on when it’s ‘okay’ to murder people for the supposedly heinous crime of being Undead: The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
We’ve had more than a couple bones to pick with the io9 website here in the past at the ZRC, as they grossly misinform about the history of Anti-Zombie prejudice, compare Zombies to cancer, promote already-prominent Anti-Zombie filmmakers and so forth. Nevertheless it’s worth noting that they continue to this day in their quest to [...]
John Sears | January 20, 2012
Sometimes your so-called journalists just can’t resist a little Zombie bashing as they go about their day. Tragically, quite a few of these prejudiced scribes seem to work at Boing Boing, perhaps inspired by the bad example of Cory Doctorow, who can say. So when we were linked to a post about some Zombie Family [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Once again we find a journalist using ‘Zombie’ as a casual, and remarkably poorly-informed, insult: When OC-based Real Mex Restaurants, operator of Chevys, El Torrito, and Acapulco, filed for bankruptcy protection in October, it closed only 30 of its 156 locations. Sbarro, the Italian fast-food chain, shuttered just 31 of its 429 U.S. stores. This [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
What does a roundup of new tech-lit books have to do with casual Zombie-bashing? Why not ask Kara Swisher? She seems to be a fan of Anti-Zombie prejudice, dropping little gems like: It’s funny that they, and also Hoffman, are using the hopelessly analog term “blueprint,” but I like the retro feel. No surprise, Thiel’s [...]
John Sears | December 23, 2011
Another day, another thoughtless ZRS post to discuss. Here’s one for the holidays, sort of, entitled ‘Why Zombies Don’t Look Like Santa’: Since it’s commonly thought that a person’s hair and nails continue to grow after death, shouldn’t all male zombies have long beards? The short answer is: no. Despite popular belief, human hair and [...]