John Sears | December 19, 2011
We’ve been talking a bit about the legal profession and its relationship with the Differently Animated here on the blog lately, and that got me to googling, as per usual. Also, sadly, as per usual, I did not like what I found. Case in point, this unfortunate article from the ABA Journal, the ‘flagship magazine [...]
John Sears | December 12, 2011
It’s the season for bombarding the world with Christmas music, and for some reason society is always looking for new pop music instead of listening to some of the classics that don’t actively make the listener want to jab a chopstick into their ear, deep into the brain to quiet the noises once and for [...]
John Sears | November 11, 2011
We’ve talked about the campus game sensation of ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ before here on the blog, but it’s nice to see the game outed for what it is, a sad demonstration of lingering Anti-Zombie prejudice in our society. Pity that recognition doesn’t extend much beyond the title of this article, which instead largely deals with [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2011
Why must so many of those trained in the various healing arts be so indifferent toward the plight of the Differently Animated? Well, ‘Walking Dead’ isn’t helping: The AMC hit zombie show, “The Walking Dead,” recently added a veterinarian to the cast of characters and he’s working on saving a kid who was shot, because, [...]
John Sears | November 7, 2011
Even though this is ZombieWriMo month and I’m slaving away to try and catch Michelle Hartz (Imagine me saying it like Kirk in ‘Wrath of Khan’: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRTZZZZZZZZZ’) I still follow the news feeds and look into leads from Twitter. Sometimes, the stupid, it burns. Case in point, where one of those random question/answer columnists fields [...]
John Sears | November 4, 2011
The ZRC has to take issue with the above graphic from Very Small Array on a number of levels. First, regardless of where you live, Zombies are not ‘coming to get you’. Quite frankly, the whole world doesn’t revolve around Living people, and Zombies don’t just exist to ‘get’ them. Zombies are a diverse lot [...]
John Sears | October 21, 2011
I’m very happy to hear about all the great Zombie events in the Detroit area this month, some for charity, and very disappointed in the press coverage: Is a zombie apocalypse coming? Metro Detroiters might wonder as much over the coming weeks. Not only is today designated as World Zombie Day, but on Sunday, zombies [...]
John Sears | October 15, 2011
Sometimes the worst thing is when someone purports to be on your side all the while snickering and undermining your cause. Case in point, an article that’s being passed around quite a bit to the ZRC from Cracked.com, which is allegedly about helping Zombies survive a Zombie Apocalypse: New and potential zombies are a demographic [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2011
We’re all for education about the history of Anti-Zombie media here at the ZRC, but it can all too easily cross the line into scaremongering or glorification of Anti-Zombie violence, and I think the folks at SFX have easily vaulted over that line: Like zombies? Then you’ll love our latest one-off special issue! Zombies: The [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2011
Oh how I wish I didn’t have to read about so many Anti-Zombie spectacles: A family dressed all in purple, likely arriving from the football game, parked their car in Aggieville on Friday. They opened the doors to get out, chatting with one another, when suddenly Roger Adams, curator of Special Collections and associate professor, [...]