John Sears | December 6, 2011
One of our trusted UK informants obtained an interview with two of the apparent leading lights of the Living Supremacist Architecture movement, and the results are a chilling look into the attempted harnessing of consumer culture to prejudice and oppression: So our solution to the idea of a zombie apocalypse is not a ‘one-off’ mobile [...]
John Sears | December 6, 2011
So I’ve salvaged the ZRC’s computational engine just in the nick of time, and upgraded all our important stuff to being stored safe and sound off-site via the magic of Dropbox. Good thing too, because the tips are coming in fast and furious on Twitter. For example, did you know that Star Trek: Enterprise had [...]
John Sears | December 1, 2011
A discussion came up on Twitter about the issue of DRM and books after I stated my distaste for the practice. When the art director got home from work we talked about it too, and both concluded that one of the chief evils of DRM on books is that books are meant to be readable, [...]
John Sears | November 8, 2011
For those scholars of influential Anti-Zombie films it appears that the ‘More Brains!’ documentary is insightful and quite in-depth; the ZRC will have to view it, especially once the ZombieWriMo rush is over. In the meantime you can see some thoughts on the film and the art of making Anti-Zom propaganda in the 80s here.
John Sears | November 7, 2011
Why must so many of those trained in the various healing arts be so indifferent toward the plight of the Differently Animated? Well, ‘Walking Dead’ isn’t helping: The AMC hit zombie show, “The Walking Dead,” recently added a veterinarian to the cast of characters and he’s working on saving a kid who was shot, because, [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2011
Even though this is ZombieWriMo month and I’m slaving away to try and catch Michelle Hartz (Imagine me saying it like Kirk in ‘Wrath of Khan’: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRTZZZZZZZZZ’) I still follow the news feeds and look into leads from Twitter. Sometimes, the stupid, it burns. Case in point, where one of those random question/answer columnists fields [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Every time I think I can’t detest ‘The Walking Dead’ more as an exemplar of everything wrong with our crass, violence-drenched anti-Zombie media, they manage to find a new way to offend me. Case in point, the way the show cashes in on PRODUCT PLACEMENT in its gruesome, savage pageantry, and how many sleazy corporations [...]
John Sears | October 4, 2011
Naturally we here at the ZRC are in favor of Zombies protesting publicly, and even offer qualified support to the Living who wish to dress up as Zombies and protest in public. However, when Living people slap on makeup and shamble around to intentionally mime the worst and ugliest stereotypes about the Differently Animated, that’s [...]
John Sears | August 31, 2011
Just take a look at the story that E! Online is pitching with the headline ‘Brad Pitt Becomes Real Life Hero, Rescues Woman From Zombie Attack’: While shooting a scene in which 700 extras flee a pack of zombies, a woman slipped and fell, putting her at risk of being trampled by her fellow actors. [...]
John Sears | August 27, 2011
Normally here on the ZRC blog, the most we discuss dietary matters is in our ongoing effort to dispel certain harmful myths about Zombies and their nutritional requirements (ie, that all Zombies eat human brains, that they cannot control their craving for your flesh, etc). However today we have an example of advocates of a [...]