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]

Only 364 days to go!

Meanwhile, in Toronto . . .

[Better.Safe.Than.Sor]

http://www.zombiewalktoronto.com/ [zombiewalktoronto.com]

Re:Meanwhile, in Toronto . . .

[jspoon]

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

Re:Meanwhile, in Toronto . . .

[Better.Safe.Than.Sor]

All your garbage cans are belong to us

Re:Cool!

[tpgp]

Indeed.

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

Re:Cool!

[complete loony]

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

Re:Cool!

[antic]

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

One condition...

[Chickenofbristol55]

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

This is ridiculous

[PunkOfLinux]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

Ooh, the irony!

J.

Re:

[account_deleted]

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Re:This is ridiculous

[A beautiful mind]

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]

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:A little late

[connah0047]

Redundant? I was the first one to say this! Look at the timestamps...

Re:Why is this even considered on shalshdot?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess IT related news is getting pretty hard to find

You should have said:
I guess nerd related news is getting pretty hard to find

Except that it is nerd related - two reasons:

1) Zombies
2) Lurching

Only once a year? Nonsense!

[ScentCone]

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]

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

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[suraklin]

same thing

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[Arandir]

Hey now! Don't go insulting winos!

Re:Only once a year? Nonsense!

[Kadagan AU]

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

Meh

[Agret]

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]

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

The real danger...

[Pii]

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:The real danger...

[EvanED]

The fact that this post is moderated "insightful" just made my day.

Re:The real danger...

[aug24]

Heh, you're insightful. The tin-foil brigade is reading!

Re:Meh

[Lord_Dweomer]

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]

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!

[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

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Late and Irrelevant

[lord sibn]

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

Just Remember Folks...

[inkdesign]

Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.

Re:Just Remember Folks...

[antispam_ben]

Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.

What makes Sunday so special?

Re:Are you sure that ...

[heinousjay]

Does either team actually have fans?

Re:Are you sure that ...

[aywwts4]

I have mod points... and Im living in madison, Im just not sure which way to mod this... I just woke up though.

Re:Are you sure that ...

[eltoyoboyo]

Whew, someone woke up with mod points, and they were pretty upset....and had no sense of humor.

Watch out Pittsburgh

[antifoidulus]

You were warned!

There's still time!

[JediTrainer]

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

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

PTHBBTT

[Bastian]

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]

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

Re:PTHBBTT

[Bastian]

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

Re:PTHBBTT

[kamapuaa]

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

[Neoprofin]

By that logic we have a zombie lurching party every day. Why zombies need to lurch on the tuesday night of midterm weekend, or a tuesday in general is beyond me, but it's very irresponsible of them. 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.

Re:PTHBBTT

[amliebsch]

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]

That or a student who lives somewhere near University Ave.

Re:PTHBBTT

[Neoprofin]

God willing I'd be both, we must all do our part to stop the rising threat of zombism in our great city.

Either that or hide on Bascom and push the exhausted zombies into eachother like a comical snowball.

Re:PTHBBTT

[themusicgod1]

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.

Re:PTHBBTT

[Neoprofin]

Huh? We were making fun of UW-M's rampant drinking problem. There's a good 3 blocks of university avenue that are filled with "shamblers" every night of the week, even sunday as I had the pleasure of seeing last night.

Re:PTHBBTT

[Tiro]

dude, football is fucking awesome. NU killed wisconsin this year because we're way better.

Re:News for nerds?

[Spy der Mann]

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

boston zombies

[einolu]

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]

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

Re:Madison is wierd.

[Jambon]

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

Having lived in Wisconsin, I'd say Madison is about as alive as you get...

Re:Madison is wierd.

[SMS_Design]

Nice sig there. Good to see people following exactly in the word of Christ.

So, I'm sure that you're also not doing any of the following..

Wearing any sorts of blended fabrics, which includes most clothes today. (Lev 19:19)
Growing any gardens with more than one sort of vegetable.. (Also Lev 19:19)
Eating shrimp, lobster, crab, or any number of other seafood products (Lev 11:10)
Shaving your face. Ever. (Lev 19:27)
Eating any steak or hamburger cooked less than medium or medium-well (Lev 17:10)
Getting

Re:Madison is wierd.

[tbcpp]

Thank you for the comments. However your argument is flawed by a misunderstanding of the Bible. I could go into a lengthy discussion here about how OT law applies (or doesn't apply to us today), but that would be considered off-topic. But I will change my sig to express the same view from the NT.

Yes, I do realize that there are many so called "gays" on Slashdot. However, since I found several of their sigs to be offensive, I thought I'd follow suit.

At any rate, sometimes the truth hurts. But it is still the

Zombie Lurch, Wisconsin?

[Moe Napoli]

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]

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

Re:Hmmm...

[musicscene]

Not my site.

I see it now

[blair1q]

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

Wait...

Correction

[Anonymous Writer]

4. Braiiins!

Zombies storm American Idol auditions...

[antdude]

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!

Re:Zombies storm American Idol auditions...

[RobertLTux]

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. ...The pop-star wannabes were largely unimpressed. (and very safe since they had no "brains" to speak of)

Well...

[Kickboy12]

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)

Same thing

[bile]

In Boston and New York City there were zombie walks yesterday also.

http://www.zombiecon.com/ [zombiecon.com]

You'd have to live in Madison to appreciate this

[HangingChad]

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.

Lunch?

[snilloc]

Am I the only one who read the title as "Zombie Lunch".

On a seemingly unrelated note, I discovered that fried cow brain w/ onion sandwiches were once popular in Chicago.

Zombie Pub Crawl Video

[Orasis]

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]

Also in news..

[Tahir Azhar]

Meanwhile at the actual Zombie convention. "@#%$ this guys we need to change our style, all this limping is way too common now"

Easy enough

[phorm]

Really,you could have almost a whole town full of zombies first thing in the morning if you stopped deliveries of coffee to local stores and shut down the starbucks for a day or two. I swear some of my co-workers have groaned in a very zombie-like manner without their morning java beeeeeeeans.

This is news???

[QuietLagoon]

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

Cool online Zombie game

[raoul666]

For any fan of zombies (or killing them) there's a great game...http://urbandead.com/ [urbandead.com]

Wisconsin?

[timothykaine]

Other than the obvious fact that there is very little to do there, why Wisconsin? Shouldnt this be held in Pittsburgh, PA as it actually has a claim to fame there and was a major contributor to the "zombie culture"?

Wisconsin never did nothin for nobody...