Zombie Lurch

user_granstro writes "Madison, Wisconsin is the next city to face the shambling undead hordes. At 2pm on Saturday, October 22, zombie fans will assemble in full costume to kick off Zombie Lurch 2005. Organizer Maddie Greene, a self-styled zombie expert, says of the event, "I think that any bystander could jump right in and become a zombie with the proper groaning and limping and attitude.""

Cool!

[RiotXIX (230569)]

Only 364 days to go!

Re:Cool!

[tpgp (48001)]

Indeed.

Pics of yesterday's event here [thedailypage.com], here [thedailypage.com] and here [thedailypage.com]

Re:Cool!

[complete loony (663508)]

Yesterday? I live in Australia. It was two days ago you insensitive clod.

Re:Cool!

[antic (29198)]

Maybe Taco has Batten disease [slashdot.org]. ;)

Re:Meanwhile, in Toronto . . .

[jspoon (585173)]

That's not Toronto, it's Raccoon City. I can see why you'd be confused though.

One condition...

[Chickenofbristol55 (884806)]

I'll go, if you promise not to bite my head off.

This is ridiculous

[PunkOfLinux (870955)]

I can understand the dupes. I can understand the trolls. But NOT posting a time-sensitive story such as this is ridiculous. This was yesterday, mr. editor.

Re:This is ridiculous

[Dogtanian (588974)]

But NOT posting a time-sensitive story such as this is ridiculous. This was yesterday, mr. editor.

In response to the question "Don't you have ANY brains?!", Cmdr Taco simply gibbered and mumbled something about a zombie having eaten most of them the day before.

Re:This is ridiculous

[pipingguy (566974)]

Naturally, The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episides are being rebroadcast now.

At one point the zombies break into the house, discover Homer, and start exploring for brains (looking in his ear, knocking on his head). Finding none, they move away.

The best part is the scene where Homer stands there offended.

Re:This is ridiculous

[mordors9 (665662)]

Actually the whole thing is ridiculous. What a bunch of geeks. Oops need to go, I have to get my Elf outfit on to go to the Making of LOTR show at the State Museum.

Re:This is ridiculous

[aug24 (38229)]

Yeah, and funnily enough he put it in the "it-only-takes-braaaaaaains" dept.

Ooh, the irony!

J.

Re:This is ridiculous

[A beautiful mind (821714)]

Nah, he is right in some sense.

Slashdot is a place where zombies, including the editors march 365 days a year, so i guess that one day difference where we celebrate it doesn't really matter.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Re:This is ridiculous

[timeOday (582209)]

But NOT posting a time-sensitive story such as this is ridiculous. This was yesterday, mr. editor.

The only mistake was referring to it in the future tense. It would have been a lame and pointless storie without zombie pics. If you're thinking the point was to increase participation, slashdot is the wrong forum for that because it is national and international.

Re:This is ridiculous

[MikeURL (890801)]

This calls for a new sig.

Only once a year? Nonsense!

[ScentCone (795499)]

I live the Washington, DC area. Just head downtown on any given day and you'll see the local Zombie Lurch Chapter doing their finest. There's even a delegation from every state. It's a veritable Church Of the Zombie Lurch. Second only, perhaps, to the nearest Junior High School literature classroom.

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[Arandir (19206)]

I don't know if you're talking about the politicians or the winos.

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[suraklin (28841)]

same thing

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[Kadagan AU (638260)]

It's a good thing these events don't happen in Pittsburgh. Our city isn't ready [theonion.com]

Meh

[Agret (752467)]

What i'd be worried about is the paranoid people who will think its real and start wildy firing at heads. BOOM HEADSHOT!!!

Re:Meh

[Simulant (528590)]

Guess we won't be seeing these in Florida......

The real danger...

[Pii (1955)]

Here we have these people crying wolf. If these kind of events become routine, how will any of us know when the real zombie outbreaks occur?

We'll all have been lured into a false sense of security:

"Oh, those zombies? Don't worry about them. They're just pretending. Hey, look how realistic... That blood around their mouths, and the rotting flesh effects, they almost look real. BRAVO zombie immitators, Bravo. OUCH! THAT'S MY BRAIN YOU'RE EATING YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!"

But then it's too late.

I s

Re:Meh

[Lord_Dweomer (648696)]

See, that's what I'd be worried about. I mean, if I was at a department store or something when one of these things went on, the first thing I'd be doing is looking for the Sporting Goods section and making like Bruce Campbell.

Frankly, I'm shocked they weren't locked up as terrorists for trying to spread a biological disease.

I in tend on taking a flight over

[FidelCatsro (861135)]

In full attire .
My body will be a Tower case , My right hand a mouse , my left a keyboard and on my head a monitor with a picture of windows XP .
I hope I don't scare any old ladies to death

Hey, we found the MIT time travelers convention!

[by Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, the effects of time travel are quite deleterious to one's physical well being. Symptoms include advanced necrosis, body parts falling off, sudden craving for human brains, etc...

Late and Irrelevant

[by Anonymous Coward]

Why not go for the triple play and dupe this as well?

Re:Late and Irrelevant

[lord sibn (649162)]

Dude, give it a few hours. A day, tops, and you'll get your wish.

Just Remember Folks...

[inkdesign (7389)]

Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.

Re:Just Remember Folks...

[antispam_ben (591349)]

Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.

What makes Sunday so special?

Watch out Pittsburgh

[antifoidulus (807088)]

You were warned!

There's still time!

[JediTrainer (314273)]

Toronto [thestar.com] has one going on at 2pm *today*!

I think I'll be staying inside this afternoon...

PTHBBTT

[Bastian (66383)]

It wasn't nearly as exciting as the Post-Homecoming Game Zombie Revelry in the Streets that happened yesterday evening. Zombies lurching down State Street may be kind of cute, but it can't compete with the awesome power of thousands of zombies in red shirts [buckyslockerroom.com] shambling aimlessly around the city, consuming unholy quantities of some unknown urine-colored substance (possibly the sustenance needed to keep them alive since all the brains in town had locked themselves in and shuttered their windows for the weekend?), driving like spastic blind chimpanzees at incredible speed all over town, urinating on the sidewalk, and so on. It turned particularly exciting around 10:00PM - about four hours into the event - when many of the males began fighting outside bars, presumably over alpha status.

Re:PTHBBTT

[kamapuaa (555446)]

So, you don't get invited to those kinds of parties, I guess?

Re:PTHBBTT

[Bastian (66383)]

No, but I certainly do pay for the cleanup bill, necessary police presence, and damage to public property, if any.

Re:PTHBBTT

[kamapuaa (555446)]

The personal web-page is a joke link to the weirdest page I'm aware of, actually...I live in China and do not rub food on people!

Re:PTHBBTT

[amliebsch (724858)]

Thankfully I have to drive through their swarm up University Avenue every night and do my best to raise the body count and delay their shambling masses

You're a Madison Metro bus driver?

Re:PTHBBTT

[Bastian (66383)]

That or a student who lives somewhere near University Ave.

Re:PTHBBTT

[themusicgod1 (241799)]

During most of my life I've worked on weekends; usually friday night, saturday sunday. And pretty much everything interesting worthy of my time involving large numbers of people was either on a friday, sunday or saturday; I would have however probably been able to make this zombie-march-thing, since it was on a tuesday. You cannot please everyone's schedule all the time; and to think that everyone should follow your schedule is pure hubris.

boston zombies

[einolu (841446)]

though i dont know why nobody covered this, there were zombie mobs all over boston yesterday as well. it looked like quite a bit of fun, but i was too hungover to join in.

Madison is wierd.

[tbcpp (797625)]

I'm from Wisconsin, and this just confirms the saying we have in the state: "Madison: 12 square miles surrounded by reality"

Zombie Lurch, Wisconsin?

[Moe Napoli (826364)]

No need to travel to Wisconsin - just ride the 2 train every morning the way to work in New York - it's loaded with zombies of all types!

Hmmm...

[musicscene (453302)]

I'll stay in Minneapolis for our Zombie Pub Crawl [zombiepubcrawl.com] thanks.

I see it now

[blair1q (305137)]

1. Read story about Zombie Lurch
2. Post it on Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit!

Wait...

Correction

[Anonymous Writer (746272)]

4. Braiiins!

Zombies storm American Idol auditions...

[antdude (79039)]

This past event [dailytexanonline.com] was better. Even the zombies look cooler (grosser)! Copied and pasted from AQFL [aqfl.net]:

The Daily Texan [dailytexanonline.com] (with gross photographs) reports on Thursday outside the Frank Erwin Center [uterwincenter.com], a horde of zombies attacked the "American Idol" [idolonfox.com] auditions. No one was hurt.

The zombies, 15 fake-bloodied actors in all, lurched out from under the IH-35 overpass and shuffled toward the Erwin Center, where they encountered the pop-star hopefuls.

Most of the 100 or so young people gathered outside had just been rejected by the "American Idol" review board, and they were talking, singing and waiting for rides home when the zombies arrived. "Braaaaaaains!" the zombies said. Nick Muntean, a UT radio-television-film graduate student who organized and participated in the zombie horde, added, "Television rots your braaaaaaains!" The pop-star wannabes were largely unimpressed.

Seen on Blue's News [bluesnews.com]. I wonder if there are video clips of this!

Well...

[Kickboy12 (913888)]

You do have to consider the fact that zombies are real [abc.net.au]. So in a sense they are advocating slavery.

(Not really, I just had to make a point)

You'd have to live in Madison to appreciate this

[HangingChad (677530)]

What a great idea for a Halloween event. It would also be a great place to grab some guerrilla footage for your next homemade zombie movie.

I really like the zombie flash mob idea, too. Wonder if that would work for independent filmmaking when you needed a bunch of extras? The extra call flash mob, not necessarily a zombie mob, maybe you just need some extras.

It's a thought.

Zombie Pub Crawl Video

[Orasis (23315)]

The Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl last weekend was one of the most fun times I've had in years. Someone made a little documentary type video of it:

video [mnstories.com]

This is news???

[QuietLagoon (813062)]

Must be a quiet Sunday, er... Saturday, er..., whatever...

Re:Are you sure that ...

[heinousjay (683506)]

Does either team actually have fans?

Re:News for nerds?

[Spy der Mann (805235)]

Hey, perhaps the editor thought it was something about Microsoft Windows...