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 4, 2011
Another day, another tenuous excuse to bash Zombies when talking about anything unpleasant to the writer. Case in point: in 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, or to be more precise, it triggered the complete collapse of ridiculously antiquated and defective flood control systems, and the subsequent waters devastated New Orleans. A Six Flags park [...]
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 | 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 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 18, 2011
You know, every time I think that the ridiculous trend of combining absolutely everything with (hating) Zombies might finally have reached its peak, I see something even more ridiculous. Case in point: the Zombie Apocalypse, or rather its cliche imagery and tropes, are being used to sell mattresses, with sleep deprivation recast as ‘Zombieitis’. I [...]
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 4, 2011
Uggh. Just… ugh: There is a plague sweeping the land, and you must prepare yourself. Are you ready for the creeping dread of unpaid bills? The sheer, unrelenting horror of bankruptcy? The non-stop terror that are creditors? Will you live to survive another day, or will you succumb to the apocalypse of Zombie Economics? … [...]
John Sears | April 28, 2011
I know I harp a lot on how tired I am of hearing about the allegedly imminent ‘Zombie Apocalypse’, and how overplayed the entire concept has become with everybody and their brother writing, drawing, shooting, directing or starring in a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ product. I present to you, however, perhaps our strongest argument yet that people [...]
John Sears | April 22, 2011
Here’s another misuse of the Zed word for the list: The glut of hotels built as the Celtic Tiger roared, has created a dangerous combination for Ireland’s tourism secter — too many hotels… many of which would have closed but were bailed out by the Irish banking system. The result… the Zombie Hotel – a [...]