John Sears | June 4, 2011
Talk about selling people on a Tiger Rock. Yeesh: It’s reasonable to think that cell phones would survive the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. We’ll call “immediate aftermath” one week. Suspend disbelief with us and assume all cell sites and wireless networks wouldn’t dissolve simultaneously, because it’s an apocalypse brought on by zombies, and [...]
John Sears | June 3, 2011
I’ve talked previously about how the Zombie Rights Movement could take inspiration, if not exactly tactical advice, from the world of comic book superheroes the ‘X-Men’. How perhaps the best method for those who are Different to change the minds of the general fearful mass of humanity might be to simply, and visibly, do good [...]
John Sears | June 1, 2011
You know, it’s hard enough to stomach cruelty directed at the Differently Animated from the usual suspects: rednecks, independent film directors, Max Brooks. But when a supposed voice for tolerance and open-mindedness defames Zombies in the very midst of a piece on how society should be less judgmental, it takes your breath away. If, you [...]
John Sears | May 31, 2011
We talked previously about this bizarre sounding independent Zombie period piece before on the ZRC blog; now more information is available: Sir Ian will play the role of the narrator in The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet, an 18th-century zombie romp. The film was developed from a short made last year — E’gad Zombies! Like [...]
John Sears | May 21, 2011
Ok, we talked earlier about how the irrational fear and disgust many experience when thinking about the Undead was being used to sell mattresses, and the ZRC even got a conciliatory response on that one. Great. But sometimes the Z-Rights game is like whack-a-mole, and where one scourge falls another shall rise to try and [...]
John Sears | May 20, 2011
We’ve written before here on the ZRC blog about the unfortunate tendency of many commentators to use the word ‘Zombie’, a term designating a group of individuals by their unique cultural and to some degree biological/political status, as a term for ‘anything I object to’. Most frequently, ‘Zombie’ misappropriated in this fashion is an adjective [...]
John Sears | May 16, 2011
Really, sometimes our adversaries in the Anti-Zombie Movement are just childish. Case in point: equating Undeath with the common boredom and dissatisfaction of adulthood: In his 1982 hit, Jack and Diane, John Mellencamp captures the allure, terror, and truth of the modern zombie in a single line: “Life goes on long after the thrill of [...]
John Sears | May 15, 2011
The art director likes to go through our sitemeter logs in the quest to find out who is linking to our proud organization from around the world wide web and see precisely where our much-valued readers are finding out about The Cause, and so she discovered that we were getting some hits to the site [...]
John Sears | May 9, 2011
Uggh. Sometimes I get to have a spirited debate with a talented, witty and informed, if still hatefully bigoted, Anti-Zombie writer/creator. Other times I read a column about Zombies that is so rife with factual errors and stupefyingly bad logic that I want to break open the tequila. Again. That was the case today with [...]
John Sears | May 6, 2011
One of the key strategies we engage in here at the ZRC is to cultivate support and relationships with up-and-coming stars and behind the scenes types in the independent film world. There are really two prongs to this strategy; first, just by talking and socializing with people you can expose them to alternative ways of [...]