John Sears | November 20, 2011
I’ve been sitting on this one waiting to make the announcement but I figure that now is as good a time as any. Remember when the ZRC blog excoriated the University of Houston-Victoria for making ‘World War Z’ the centerpiece of their ‘Community of Readers’ program? Well, one thing led to another via the magic [...]
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 | October 9, 2011
This story is very sad, even if it happened a long time ago: Two early medieval skeletons were unearthed recently in Ireland with large stones wedged into their mouths — evidence, archaeologists say, that it was feared the individuals would rise from their graves like zombies. … “In this case, the stones in the mouth [...]
John Sears | September 3, 2011
Notice: The following post contains details from Max Brooks’ hyperviolent, amoral and sadistic Living Supremacist Magnum Opus ‘World War Z’ to help illustrate the incredible impropriety of using it as the base of a year of introductory academic instruction. Proceed with caution. I’m shocked and appalled by this outrageous misuse and abuse of developing young [...]
John Sears | July 30, 2011
The so-called ‘Zombie Research Society’, who seem to have never conducted any actual research on Zombies beyond skimming previous works of Anti-Zombie prejudice and extrapolating from hate fiction, had a panel at Comic-Con this year, and they shot video. Naturally we feel the need to respond to their allegations and slanders. Here’s the first part [...]
John Sears | July 27, 2011
We’ve heard this song and dance before from the ZRS and professional Zombie haters like Dr. Scholzman: “I watched some highly inconsistent Anti-Zombie movies and now have deduced *the* best, entirely fictional, all-encompassing, heavily biased ‘explanation’ of what makes Zombies tick!” Sort of like phrenology for the 21st Century: In case you missed it, Wired.com [...]
John Sears | June 28, 2011
It’s always sad to learn that an august body harbors hateful prejudice. It might be your local school board, unhappy about allowing a Zombie child to attend, or your local hospital, unwilling to treat the broken arm of a Zombie. Or it might be the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, which handed [...]
John Sears | June 24, 2011
We had this item passed to us by numerous individuals on Tuesday, but I believe The Horror Society, our long trusted correspondents, got it to us first: Yes, that’s right; a chart that claims to categorize all Zombies by two axes: speed and intelligence. Nevermind that the idea of a single, easily quantifiable measurement of [...]
John Sears | June 21, 2011
(the book in question) We wrote about the hateful and odious piece of Anti-Zombie propaganda directed at children from our nemeses at the ZRS before here on the ZRC blog: I’m sorry, but this is just heinous, intentional Anti-Zombie indoctrination of children. That’s absolutely unacceptable; teaching children to *hate*? To hate Zombies? Even their own [...]
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 [...]