John Sears | July 27, 2011
Reading pop journalism stuff like this sometimes has me reaching for the Cuervo before noon, but I must resist.. I must! London – Hollywood’s current love affair with zombies is a weak echo of the decades-long romance between videogames and the living dead. In any fantasy game, zombies haul themselves up out of the soil [...]
John Sears | July 24, 2011
You’re probably familiar with this more-than-a-pet-peeve of ours by now, but let’s review for the less enlightened just joining us here at The Zombie Rights Campaign: ‘Zombie’ is not a synonym for ‘bad’, ‘wrong’, or ‘thing I just don’t like’. Zombies are a class of people (or, in some cases, other Unliving things) that have [...]
John Sears | July 19, 2011
The supposedly left-leaning UK rag ‘The Guardian’ has been in the ZRC’s sights before, caught touting flagrantly Anti-Zombie viewpoints in the wake of the Leicester affair. Given that, I suppose it was inevitable they would show up and add their two cents to this tragic Bristol City Council story: Local authorities routinely have detailed emergency [...]
John Sears | July 17, 2011
I have fond memories of my four years at Indiana University. Well, four years in school for me, then living on campus for a while with the art director, but you get the idea. Indiana University has a fairly prominent student paper, the Indiana Daily Student. As the title suggests, it is written and published [...]
John Sears | July 5, 2011
Annalee Newitz, who Wikipedia says is allegedly a journalist (we have our doubts), is the latest to try and tie Zombies to something that she personally finds unpleasant in a pop-science article. Of course, she had to one-up the legion of quasi-writers tying Zombies to dying ants, mental illnesses or communicable diseases, so Ms. Newitz [...]
John Sears | July 5, 2011
I know that it’s one of the most popular shows on television but I really wish that the mainstream media could remember that popularity is based on *hate*. I mean, seriously. Just because it makes money that doesn’t make it right and it shouldn’t make it socially acceptable. TV Guide, for those of you who [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Look, seriously, journalists out there? Stop calling everything Zombie. Just because something is dormant or acts a little differently or in a way you disapprove of, that does not make it a Zombie, with all the challenges that entails and rights that it SHOULD entail. Still, at least this most recent example isn’t as patently [...]
John Sears | July 3, 2011
Mega-huge Living Supremacist adaptation of Max Brooks’ infamous ‘World War Z’ hit more snags recently: World War Z, the would-be epic adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history of a fictitious zombie pandemic and near-apocalypse, spent so many months in development hell that the project seemed doomed, even with the presence of director Marc Forster and [...]
John Sears | July 1, 2011
Is there anything that can’t be tied to hating the Differently Animated these days? Perhaps you thought to yourself at one point, ‘The Space Program seems like a fairly safe topic. Surely I can read up on NASA without finding ugly, Living Supremacist rhetoric in my web browser.’ Would that it were so, Zombie Ally. [...]
John Sears | June 30, 2011
Now, we’re not in this business for the fame or adulation, but I’d like to think that The Zombie Rights Campaign has, by now, earned a little bit of recognition as a leader in the burgeoning Zombie Rights Movement, at least here in America. Yet this poll to determine the ‘Best Zombie Site’ not only [...]