<![CDATA[Forum for We're Alive - Blogs - 7oddisdead]]> https://www.forum.werealive.com/blog.php?1264-7oddisdead en Thu, 07 May 2026 22:25:13 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.forum.werealive.com/images/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Forum for We're Alive - Blogs - 7oddisdead]]> https://www.forum.werealive.com/blog.php?1264-7oddisdead state of the convoy: the devil is in the details https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?358-state-of-the-convoy-the-devil-is-in-the-details Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:12:14 GMT the we're alive finale convoy idea first came to me during the season three live event. as I sat in my living room listening to the livestream experience, I thought "how cool would it be to make it out there for the finale next year?". From there, my first idea was to pick up listeners along my way out to California. the more I thought about that one though, the more I realized that perhaps it would be better to try and help get the east coasters over to the west. about a week ago, litmaster gave me the perfect opportunity to put this plan into action. I honestly never would have imagined him becoming such a integral part of this idea. in fact, ill say that much of this would not be possible had he not become involved. so big thank you to him, from me.

going forward from here, when I feel its needed I will be making casual blog posts with the "state of the convoy" as a theme. basically, the information we need to share amongst those wanting to go west with us can get lost in the mire of a typical thread. as of this typing the W/A finale convoy thread is at sixteen pages. digging for info can be a bit cumbersome with that much to read. so ill try to put pertinent info here when I can.

I believe the first thing we should go over is the travel plan. for the full details of whats planned per day, go here:
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...convoy!/page11
and
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...convoy!/page16

for this blog, ill simply break down some of the details left out of those pages/posts by the ultimate p.t. barnum>litmaster.

Tuesday july 15ththis is the date everyone needs to schedule arrival in Illinois, be that by plane, train, automobile, sparrowhawk, whatever the case. we need to leave from my place about seven am wedsday morning. so honestly the sooner you can get here Tuesday, the better.
tues, cont. ill be the first to tell everyone, my duplex is small. once we all arrive at my place, we will most likely do some shopping to fill the coolers for the trip. then, grill out in my backyard, (possibly bring a couple aged ales up from my "cellar"), and get a good nights sleep to leave the next morning. now, I said earlier, my place is "small"... I live in a split level duplex at roughly 1200 square feet. I only have two beds. most likely the first night will be camping in my living room. that's a bonding experience most don't experience as an adult. in truth, the idea of it makes me think of grade school days. fun stuff.

wedsday july16th-sunday(am) july 20thsee, the above links. that's a lot for me to type. (and hyperlinking is against my religion)

sunday july 20th cont. after the studio tour, we will be high-tailing it out of L.A.. this is the part of the trip that gets tricky. the drive back to Illinois is about twenty-six hours. putting us back sometime in the evening on Monday the 21st. making flying out of Illinois either red eyes Monday, or sometime Tuesday. for some, this may not work. personally I completey understand time constraints, my life revolves around that sort of thing it seems. so if need be, anyone who wants to leave the convoy in L.A and fly back home is more than welcome to. it will be "tricky" but we could make it back to Illinois even if it ends up being just myself, litmaster, and tony.

that's all the logistical details I can think of at the moment. now perhaps we should knock out a few questions some may have.

"what airport am I flying into?"

here we have two "possible" options. the first being lambert airport in st. Louis, mo.
http://www.flystl.com/
the second, while closer to my place, receives less flights than lambert. but may be a viable option. midamerica airport, Mascoutah, il
http://www.flymidamerica.com/Pages/default.aspx

either of these will work for me. really it all depends on what airport you find the best deals through. as I said, lambert will be the most likely to have flights incoming. but midamerica is a smaller airport, therefore you may find better deals flying into there instead. litmaster is flying in a few days.. (or weeks!) early so if need be we can have two "shuttles" going for picking people up.

"what do I need to bring?"

well, yourself...obviously! bringing along the usual items for a longer trip is a given. (clothes, toiletries, PHONE CHARGER!) etc are all the givens for a trip like this. as we have said, the first three nights (one at my place, two on the road) we will be camping. so bringing your own sleeping bag is a very good idea. all of the other camping equipment, tents, blowtorches, flashlights for scary stories will be provided. then of course, theres money....

"how much is a trip like this gonna cost me??"
honestly, this all depends on how frugal a person you are. right now a quick breakdown of my projected expenses goes like this.
gas=200-250 per person.
hotel stay in L.A for two nights=300 per (that's a very rough estimation). food expenses=200 per (figuring high to be safe)
misc expenses(group cost for campsites, getting into the finale, etc)=200
"on vacation and having the time of your life" expenses= priceless
right now I believe a very safe number to put in your head is arrive in Illinois with 1500 and your very safe.

"I want to help out, but I don't think i'll be able to make the trip. what can I do?"

we are open to the idea of others being our "at home tech-people". the hope is that on this trip we can continually update from the road and keep the excitement for the finale building to a fever pitch as we make our way out there. if you want to help out in that way, go here;
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/s...y-Support-Team

"I have a question that wasn't answered here. how can I get in touch with you?"

to be certain, I'm doing this entire thing for the forum. while I honestly love the show, the forum is what has gotten me through the day for the better part of the last three years. I truly enjoy my time with each and every one of you that ive grown to know and care about over the years. litmaster has always been a friend online, but just within the last week of talking everyday in real life, I feel I can call him a true friend whos much more than his online persona. that's something that would not happen without this place. if any of you need anything, questions about the trip, more info on the camping plans, just someone to bullshit with for ten minutes while you wait for your bus to arrive. shoot myself or litmaster a pm on here, or find me on the twitter

@_toddisdead

or, fuck it... just shoot me a text. my phone literally is never off, nor ever not by my side. SIX18-3three9-o187 (just give me a real name, I honestly hate calling people by "usernames"...it just feels stupid to me). seriously, I have loved every second of my time on here. im more than willing to give my time to those who have given me so much over the years.



and with that....
KAW
todd-0
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]]> 7oddisdead https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?358-state-of-the-convoy-the-devil-is-in-the-details the Apocalypse will not be televised(opinion piece/rant)/ mature content https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?316-the-Apocalypse-will-not-be-televised(opinion-piece-rant)-mature-content Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:32:03 GMT -----to be noted----
*I'm writing this quickly, from my mobile in fact, because I feel the raw energy of what I'm saying is important in how I express these thoughts. This all stemmed from a conversation between yarri and myself in the chatbox, but i feel strongly enough about the message that i want everyone to see it. Im writing this on zero sleep and I don't care..be glad I at least spelled correctly(!). You have been warned, grade on the curve when it comes to the grammatical stuff...enjoy


I've not been following all the details of the last few days. The things I am aware of do indicate to me that the "zombie uprising" is upon us now though. And I can say without hesitation that if the things we are lead to believe are true. We have entered an apocalypse we are wholly unprepared for. Let me explain..

From the latest reports I've read about, the raging, cannibalistic behaviours spreading along the eastern coastline are being blamed on a synthetic drug labeled "bath salts". To see all the reports and many of the details in a bit more depth, they have been compiled in a thread here. I'll spare all the details for this reason..if you want to know, go read that shit.

The thing I find the most frightening about this situation is, our initial response here was one of shock and, um "readying ourselves". The initial discussion osiris and I had was one of "if it is drugs its better than if it's a virus or something weird". Well, as I continue to wrap my brain around all the details I believe that to be the absolute opposite of what all this could become.

And that scares the shit out of me

When you look back though the years, we as Americans and for all intents and purposes, most any country reading this...have had our fair share of drug use and abuse. Simply thinking back through the decades in America we had LSD in the late sixty's/early seventies, the eighties were riddled with tales of rampant cocaine use, the nineties we saw the rise of ecstasy, and early into the twenty-first century the beginnings of the "designer" drug era began. Now i am by no means a drug expert, in fact i have very limited knowledge of the stuff, but even i know that none of the things I've listed above have ever died out. ALL of these things still exist to this day.
in fact, as I racked my brain for a substance that has been completely wiped out of existence, the only thing I could come up with was Quaaludes...and I know when I was younger, I heard tales of people having those around still..

What I'm getting at is, without some type of major intervention on the part of the government to completely stomp out ALL of this bath salt nonsense. We very well could continue to see things like this pop up across the country for years to come. Lets go back to the Quaaludes i mentioned a second ago, i don't have all the facts of when they went on the market and when they were taken off, for this rant those things don't matter. What does matter however, is the fact that even with a total wipeout of the product, people still managed to get ahold of them...

...A decade later.

so regardless of the effects, people are likely to continue doing this stuff. Without a very thorough removal of the stuff from the market, it will continue to exist for possibly years to come. The truly mind melting part of that equation however? For the users, the aspect of "I might turn into a raging cannibal on this" is the most alluring part of it all..the gambling spirit within some people is difficult to control. So it is probably safe for us to say "the zombie apocalypse has begun" because in the most realistic sense of it, it has. What a sad apocalypse this will be, your stash of weapons serves you little purpose. All the those stacks of water and canned food? Nope. You will not be needing that. The best weapon you could have is a can of mace and some good cardio, because these are not undead "zombies"..they are living people. People with a bad habit, people that media outlets will eventually deem victims. The more i think about this whole situation, the more i see it as a major black eye for us as a community and the zombie genre as a whole. No sir, this apocalypse does not need to be televised.

Hank you for your time
Todd out
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]]> 7oddisdead https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?316-the-Apocalypse-will-not-be-televised(opinion-piece-rant)-mature-content truly random/breaking the rules(spoilers) https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?184-truly-random-breaking-the-rules(spoilers) Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:36:06 GMT ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss... ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssp oilers!




the following blog is very laid back. the following blog has nothing to do with the storyarc of waldo butters and the jogger. the follwing blog is short but sweet. the follwing blog stole your cans of beans. the following blog is the combination of sleep deprivation, and an overactive imagination....the following blog has..begun


I’m a man of rules. Rules not meant govern my life, but to give it some form of structure. Most of these “rules” people would find quite silly. Example; the volume on anything I own must always be set at an odd number. Let’s say I want to purchase a new home theatre reciever…even if I love all the features of said receiver, I will not buy it if it cannot display volume in numerical fashion (this has happened)…other “rules” are; I begin growing a beard September first, I cut it off March twenty third. No ifs and or buts about it. I will avoid things like weddings, public events, etc. if my beard is deemed unacceptable by those who want me there. A third and final example I’ll give is I only drink mountain dew when I’m at work. Never outside of work.

These “rules” most people would see as a weird form of OCD, or perhaps a form of superstition. For me, they are simply a way to maintain some form of structure in a very chaotic life. If I wanted to, I could break myself of each of these habits quite quickly. I would simply stop doing them. But they have come to be a security blanket of sorts, and I find the idea of a self-imposed compulsion fascinating. Where am I going with all this you ask? Well…..

One of the “rules" I’m trying to establish on myself is…not blogging anything about the actual W/A pod cast. Instead focusing this section on other things related to the subject. The problem I’m having is, at this moment I simply want to shout all of my thoughts about the season finale from every rooftop I have access to…i will throw a very long winded theory/thought thing up in the crackpot thread at some point this week. but theres more to what i want to say than simple theories. So in a feeble attempt at expressing my views on the finale without talking much about the pod cast, a single paragraph…….breaking the rules

It’s Wednesday morning, and I’m sitting here listening to VNV nation, pondering my thoughts on the season finale. i have stayed away from the forums the last few days to let my thoughts on the subject gel, or congeal, depending on how you chose to look at it. When i think of it now, a single word comes to mind……epic. Not just the finale itself was of epic proportions, but the entire event was epic. From the opening scene, I like many had my feet firmly planted in the chatbox. The entire experience could be compared to being in the same room with roughly one hundred friends, all "wtf"ing at each other and high fiving all around. The hermit in me would typically shy away from things like that, but in this case…it was an amazing experience. One that I look forward to sharing again at some point in the future. The only thing I'll really say here about the finale itself was probably best put by Michael as his final line of the episode.

“I followed suit, trying hard not to think about what we left behind. But more on what was in front of us now…What remained…to be wherever we landed…"

So that’s what I recommend to any who reads this blog. Don’t look back on what has happened. Instead, let’s focus on just how exciting the next season should be! We feasibly can expect not just continuations of the current story arcs, but the addition of a possible ft. Irwin storyline and ……
Shit.
That’s more than one paragraph…..

So in the meantime, we have the forum. Which as of this morning is in a state of life imitating art….our tower is shaking. Kc and a few others were scrambling the evening before to troubleshoot, trying to find solutions to the forums ailments. But the foundations (the threads) are still on shaky grounds. I have no doubt in their ability to solve the problems. I simply found the irony of the situation worth noting. Once all the commotion is over, though. The entertainment here will continue throughout the hiatus. Between the ever present theories threads, picture wars, the wiki updates….not to mention the countless blogs I’m sure most will find entertaining. Nik and rev’s survival inc. COsurvivor’s the road not taken. The amazing work of those people who actually know what their doing, like yarri, and osiris, in addition to the one's already mentioned. Hell, even the novice writers have a space. My own butters/my ex, er I mean…jogger/machete, for those who enjoy the amateur hour every week. This tower will not fall the same as its namesake did, not by a long shot…(to be noted.. forum issues fixed as of 11am, nice work guys)

This concludes my random ramble…next week we shall return to young master butter’s adventures in a land where the undead are “different” to say the least……..stay tuned

Todd out
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]]> 7oddisdead https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?184-truly-random-breaking-the-rules(spoilers) introduction https://www.forum.werealive.com/entry.php?175-introduction Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:28:44 GMT So here I sit, Staring at word document no.4. The first of what would be a four part blog entry. I somehow feel….let down. All in all, it’s a good... So here I sit, Staring at word document no.4. The first of what would be a four part blog entry. I somehow feel….let down. All in all, it’s a good read, nice sentence structure. All the points I wished to make are made, and it seemingly flows well in a 3 part narrative storyline. The problem?, its not “me”…not written in my normal, gonzo style. Not ,liberal, with, the, commas. Not rough around the edges. Certainly not the kind of thing I would call a “random 7hought”…

The purpose of taking the extra initiative to blog, to me, is self expression on a larger scale than a single thread post. ALL of us have the desire to express ourselves, otherwise we there would simply be lurkers on this site. I feel confident when I say, taking the time to register and simply post; “Whoa, I really liked that episode” on a chapter discussion thread is just as much a form of self expression as blogging. We all express ourselves in one way or another here, So why bother with blogging? Why take the time to make a little part of yourself known? Why give others the opportunity to see the people who, otherwise are simply a userame and avatar? Perhaps the best answer, perhaps the ONLY answer is……why not?

The main reason I joined this forum is the theories section. That should come as no surprise to anyone who has viewed the crackpot thread. For me, all the hypothesizing and theorizing that can be done from a simple twenty minutes every week won me over. That’s truly why I wished to begin this blog in the first place. Not as a place to polish the nuggets of gold I make in the theory section, but a place to express the thoughts behind those thoughts. perhaps what I find even more interesting than an idea, is the ideas origin. what brought the creator to come up with the idea? everyone has a story behind their creative inspiration. the creative spark that first ignited the lightbulb above their heads.....making a man/women into a creative monster. Inspired by the simplest of things..."sparked" by the day to day events the rest of us see as mundane

Inspiration strikes the creative mind in the most interesting of areas. Be that in a dream, nightmare, the subconscious. Whatever the case may be. Inspiration, (the”spark”) can strike at anytime. Picture this….Walking down the street, you look over and notice a neighbor out for the evening jog. Suddenly, the image of her running for her life from an undead horde flashes through your mind… how she could escape from them.? Then what? Where does she go once they have cleared out? Does she have family? Maybe she will go back home to look for them, to protect her children. But what if …one of them has already turned, and she’s dragging her brother behind her…..as if he were her favorite teddy…

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And that is what im looking for here, the thoughts behind the thoughts. An exploration of the man behind the crackpot. not just myself, but, if I can find enough willing participants. I’m hoping to do the some pseudo-interviews with the more “prominent” theorists on the site. In hopes of also learning of what makes up the theorist within them. We all have our own story, our own reason for being here. that’s perhaps what makes this forum so wonderful…we truly are as diverse a cast as the podcast itself…more on THAT to come..

Oh yea , one more thing
Click
- Are you sure you want to delete document no.4 :
“What dreams may come and other conceptual philosophies” ?-


Click
Todd out
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