John Sears | March 28, 2012
Our exploits over the weekend at Horrorhound Columbus were noticed by the local tentacle of the Mainstream Media, in the form of a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch. We got a pretty nice mention in their Horrorhound article, actually: At a vendor booth that bore the sign “The Zombie Rights Campaign,” Jenny Rowland of Madison, [...]
John Sears | March 4, 2012
The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently: This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory. A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of [...]
John Sears | February 25, 2012
Another day, another pop-journalism story about the supposed menace posed by the peaceful Zombie Community: Look at you, all plump and fleshy, with a quickening pulse and body jam-packed with sweet meats. That brain of yours, with the scrumptious gray matter and thinking cap makes certain re-animated corpses crave a dining bib. So what are [...]
John Sears | February 12, 2012
Given the return of ‘The Walking Dead’, io9 (our longtime foes) decided to solicit opinions on when it’s ‘okay’ to murder people for the supposedly heinous crime of being Undead: The Walking Dead returns tomorrow night in the wake of a moral dilemma: Should zombies be killed on sight, or quarantined as sick humans? We [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2012
We’ve had more than a couple bones to pick with the io9 website here in the past at the ZRC, as they grossly misinform about the history of Anti-Zombie prejudice, compare Zombies to cancer, promote already-prominent Anti-Zombie filmmakers and so forth. Nevertheless it’s worth noting that they continue to this day in their quest to [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Once again we find a journalist using ‘Zombie’ as a casual, and remarkably poorly-informed, insult: When OC-based Real Mex Restaurants, operator of Chevys, El Torrito, and Acapulco, filed for bankruptcy protection in October, it closed only 30 of its 156 locations. Sbarro, the Italian fast-food chain, shuttered just 31 of its 429 U.S. stores. This [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
What does a roundup of new tech-lit books have to do with casual Zombie-bashing? Why not ask Kara Swisher? She seems to be a fan of Anti-Zombie prejudice, dropping little gems like: It’s funny that they, and also Hoffman, are using the hopelessly analog term “blueprint,” but I like the retro feel. No surprise, Thiel’s [...]
John Sears | December 24, 2011
Here at the ZRC we tend to be critical of the ongoing trend to just splash a bit of Zombie flavor into anything entertainment related and rake in the bucks; we even have a blog tag for it, ‘Don’t Use the Zed Word’. This comes up a *lot*. Yet when I saw this story about [...]
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 9, 2011
The Sci-Fi Channel, sorry, SyFy (like syphillis) Channel has gotten a reputation as a purveyor of b-movie direct to cable schlock in recent years, and it’s earned them a lot of fame and, let’s face it, some ratings gold too. Now they’re releasing what has to be the least imaginatively titled Anti-Zombie film of all [...]