John Sears | October 3, 2011
I want to put a word of caution here at the start, because there ARE supposedly such things as ‘Zombie drugs’, at least in some interpretations of the Haitian Voodoo Zombification process. The potential existence of ACTUAL drugs involved with turning a person into a Zombie of some form only makes the following abuse of [...]
John Sears | September 4, 2011
I’m beginning to think that we’re going to have to retire, or at least diversity, the ZRC blog’s ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’ tag, which we apply when journalists or pundits lazily apply the label ‘Zombie’ to something they dislike. In this latest case, we’re talking about big box stores that have cut back on [...]
John Sears | September 2, 2011
Sometimes a single article ties into so many things we work on here at the ZRC at once it’s hard to parse, and so it was with this piece from The Inkwell about a new Anti-Zombie first novel and the process of independent publication in the age of Kindle: Run for your life! The zombie [...]
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 30, 2011
I’m genuinely tired of seeing products marketed for the Zombie Apocalypse with no rational basis. Take this phone that Engadget thinks is worth keeping on hand for what is supposedly the end of days: You can never be too prepared. Whether you’re being chased by brain sucking zombies, hunted down by ruthless killer robots, or [...]
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 [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2011
Really, people, just stop it: Let’s not turn our kids into fear-filled zombies! By Scott Sager for The Brooklyn Paper Did you hear the one about the boys attacked by a big, brown bear in Alaska? No joke, true story. Just a couple of weeks ago, a group of boys on a wilderness learning trip [...]
John Sears | August 8, 2011
We talk a lot on the ZRC blog about the tendency for Anti-Zombie prejudice to lead people to classify anything or anyone they personally dislike as a ‘Zombie’. A lot. We even have a tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word‘, here on the blog. However we’ve rarely seen a case this brazen: One [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2011
We like to highlight public events featuring Zombies participating peacefully in civic discourse, or even just the Living dressing as Differently Animated citizens, in some circumstances. The ZRC remains wary and vigilant against exploitation and defamation of the Differently Animated community at these protests, however, and unfortunately we sometimes see just that: Those in Downtown [...]
John Sears | August 1, 2011
Read a really childish and defamatory essay in the New York Times by one Charles Duhigg called ‘Coming Soon: Invasion of the Walking Debt’ today that bears paying attention to for yet another example of the attempt to tie Zombies to something people dislike, this time a bad economy and arguments in Congress over the [...]