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.""Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_prf='page=article';Ads_channels='RON_P6_IMU';Ads_wrd='ent';Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_sec=0; Zombie Lurch Log in/Create an Account | Top | 96 comments | Search Discussion Display Options Threshold: -1: 96 comments 0: 93 comments 1: 67 comments 2: 49 comments 3: 20 comments 4: 14 comments 5: 12 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Cool! (Score:5, Funny) by RiotXIX (230569) on Sunday October 23, @09:03AM (#13857384) (Last Journal: Saturday October 15, @07:40PM) Only 364 days to go! [ Reply to ThisMeanwhile, in Toronto . . . by Better.Safe.Than.Sor (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @09:05AMRe:Meanwhile, in Toronto . . . by jspoon (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:43AMRe:Meanwhile, in Toronto . . . by Better.Safe.Than.Sor (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:56AM Re:Cool! (Score:5, Informative) by tpgp (48001) on Sunday October 23, @09:25AM (#13857464) (http://slashdot.org/~tpgp) Indeed.Pics of yesterday's event here [thedailypage.com], here [thedailypage.com] and here [thedailypage.com] [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Cool! by complete loony (Score:3) Sunday October 23, @10:00AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Cool! by antic (Score:3) Sunday October 23, @10:18AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. One condition... (Score:2, Funny) by Chickenofbristol55 (884806) on Sunday October 23, @09:05AM (#13857389) I'll go, if you promise not to bite my head off. [ Reply to This1 reply beneath your current threshold. This is ridiculous (Score:5, Insightful) by PunkOfLinux (870955) <MangaAddict@gmail.com> on Sunday October 23, @09:06AM (#13857391) 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. [ Reply to This Re:This is ridiculous (Score:5, Funny) by Dogtanian (588974) on Sunday October 23, @09:20AM (#13857445) (http://babelfish.alt...%2F%2Fslashdot.jp%2F) 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. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:This is ridiculous by pipingguy (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @11:04PMRe:This is ridiculous by mordors9 (Score:3) Sunday October 23, @09:29AMRe:This is ridiculous by aug24 (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:33AMRe:This is ridiculous by A beautiful mind (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:45AMRe:This is ridiculous by timeOday (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @10:49AMRe:This is ridiculous by MikeURL (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:49AM2 replies beneath your current threshold. Only once a year? Nonsense! (Score:5, Funny) by ScentCone (795499) on Sunday October 23, @09:08AM (#13857406) 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. [ Reply to ThisRe:Only once a year? Nonsense! by Arandir (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @02:36PMRe:Only once a year? Nonsense! by suraklin (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @02:40PMRe:Only once a year? Nonsense! by Arandir (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @06:13PMRe:Only once a year? Nonsense! by Kadagan AU (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @06:44PM Meh (Score:5, Funny) by Agret (752467) <alias.zero2097@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on Sunday October 23, @09:09AM (#13857408) (http://agret.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 29, @11:59PM) What i'd be worried about is the paranoid people who will think its real and start wildy firing at heads. BOOM HEADSHOT!!! [ Reply to ThisRe:Meh by Simulant (Score:3) Sunday October 23, @10:02AMThe real danger... by Pii (Score:3) Sunday October 23, @01:41PMRe:Meh by Lord_Dweomer (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @03:28PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. I in tend on taking a flight over (Score:5, Funny) by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro@nOsPAM.gmail.com> on Sunday October 23, @09:12AM (#13857412) (Last Journal: Sunday October 23, @04:58PM) 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 [ Reply to This Hey, we found the MIT time travelers convention! (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23, @09:15AM (#13857422) 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... [ Reply to This Late and Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23, @09:20AM (#13857442) Why not go for the triple play and dupe this as well? [ Reply to ThisRe:Late and Irrelevant by lord sibn (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @11:04AM Just Remember Folks... (Score:4, Insightful) by inkdesign (7389) on Sunday October 23, @09:23AM (#13857460) (http://www.mikemasondesign.com/) Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything. [ Reply to ThisRe:Just Remember Folks... by antispam_ben (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @04:42PM Watch out Pittsburgh (Score:2) by antifoidulus (807088) on Sunday October 23, @09:34AM (#13857500) (http://slashdot.org???? | Last Journal: Friday March 11, @10:17PM) You were warned! [ Reply to This There's still time! (Score:5, Informative) by JediTrainer (314273) on Sunday October 23, @09:35AM (#13857502) Toronto [thestar.com]has one going on at 2pm *today*! I think I'll be staying inside this afternoon... [ Reply to This PTHBBTT (Score:5, Informative) by Bastian (66383) on Sunday October 23, @09:55AM (#13857557) 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. [ Reply to ThisRe:PTHBBTT by kamapuaa (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @10:48AMRe:PTHBBTT by Bastian (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @10:58AMRe:PTHBBTT by kamapuaa (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @09:57PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:PTHBBTT by Neoprofin (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @11:04AMRe:PTHBBTT by amliebsch (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @11:20AMRe:PTHBBTT by Bastian (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @11:51AMRe:PTHBBTT by themusicgod1 (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @06:03PMRe:PTHBBTT by Tiro (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @07:08PM boston zombies (Score:2, Interesting) by einolu (841446) on Sunday October 23, @10:01AM (#13857582) 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. [ Reply to This Madison is wierd. (Score:1) by tbcpp (797625) on Sunday October 23, @10:21AM (#13857658) I'm from Wisconsin, and this just confirms the saying we have in the state:"Madison: 12 square miles surrounded by reality" [ Reply to ThisRe:Madison is wierd. by Jambon (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @05:05PMRe:Madison is wierd. by SMS_Design (Score:1) Monday October 24, @12:16AM2 replies beneath your current threshold. Zombie Lurch, Wisconsin? (Score:2, Funny) by Moe Napoli (826364) on Sunday October 23, @11:04AM (#13857795) 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! [ Reply to This Hmmm... (Score:3, Interesting) by musicscene (453302) <gonzoNO@SPAMmusicscene.org> on Sunday October 23, @11:10AM (#13857815) (http://www.lowbandwidth.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday July 11, @02:04AM) I'll stay in Minneapolis for our Zombie Pub Crawl [zombiepubcrawl.com] thanks. [ Reply to ThisRe:Hmmm... by musicscene (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @04:12PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. I see it now (Score:2) by blair1q (305137) on Sunday October 23, @11:11AM (#13857820) (Last Journal: Thursday October 17, @11:28AM) 1. Read story about Zombie Lurch2. Post it on Slashdot3. ???4. Profit!Wait... [ Reply to ThisCorrection by Anonymous Writer (Score:2) Sunday October 23, @12:47PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Zombies storm American Idol auditions... (Score:4, Interesting) by antdude (79039) on Sunday October 23, @11:53AM (#13858015) (http://antfarm.ma.cx/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 09, @02:16AM) 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! [ Reply to ThisRe:Zombies storm American Idol auditions... by RobertLTux (Score:1) Sunday October 23, @05:24PM Well... (Score:5, Interesting) by Kickboy12 (913888) on Sunday October 23, @11:54AM (#13858021) (http://cacrew.com/) 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) [ Reply to This1 reply beneath your current threshold. Same thing (Score:1) by bile (169020) on Sunday October 23, @12:31PM (#13858200) (http://www.landofbile.com/) In Boston and New York City there were zombie walks yesterday also.http://www.zombiecon.com/ [zombiecon.com] [ Reply to This You'd have to live in Madison to appreciate this (Score:2) by HangingChad (677530) on Sunday October 23, @12:53PM (#13858301) 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. [ Reply to This Lunch? (Score:1) by snilloc (470200) <(moc.liamtoh) (ta) (snilloclj)> on Sunday October 23, @01:24PM (#13858429) (Last Journal: Saturday December 18, @10:49PM) 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. [ Reply to This Zombie Pub Crawl Video (Score:2) by Orasis (23315) on Sunday October 23, @01:24PM (#13858433) 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] [ Reply to This Also in news.. (Score:1) by Tahir Azhar (916001) on Sunday October 23, @02:45PM (#13858752) Meanwhile at the actual Zombie convention. "@#%$ this guys we need to change our style, all this limping is way too common now" [ Reply to This Easy enough (Score:1) by phorm (591458) on Sunday October 23, @03:21PM (#13858935) (http://www.phormix.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 19, @01:08PM) 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. [ Reply to This This is news??? (Score:2) by QuietLagoon (813062) on Sunday October 23, @03:27PM (#13858971) Must be a quiet Sunday, er... Saturday, er..., whatever... [ Reply to This Cool online Zombie game (Score:1) by raoul666 (870362) <<pi.rocks> <at> <gmail.com>> on Sunday October 23, @03:31PM (#13859004) For any fan of zombies (or killing them) there's a great game...http://urbandead.com/ [urbandead.com] [ Reply to This Wisconsin? (Score:1) by timothykaine (821252) on Sunday October 23, @05:56PM (#13859894) 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... [ Reply to This Re:Are you sure that ... (Score:2, Troll) by heinousjay (683506) on Sunday October 23, @10:04AM (#13857598) (Last Journal: Tuesday October 18, @09:01PM) Does either team actually have fans? [ Reply to This | Parent Re:News for nerds? (Score:2) by Spy der Mann (805235) <(moc.liamg) (ta) (todhsals.nnamredyps)> on Sunday October 23, @10:08AM (#13857611) (Last Journal: Wednesday October 12, @02:42PM) Hey, perhaps the editor thought it was something about Microsoft Windows... [ Reply to This | Parent Re:Are you sure that ... (Score:1) by aywwts4 (610966) on Sunday October 23, @02:24PM (#13858667) (http://www.thenewforum.net/) I have mod points... and Im living in madison, Im just not sure which way to mod this... I just woke up though. [ Reply to This | Parent Re:A little late (Score:1)