http://www.deadenddays.com Death isn\'t the end, it just puts you in a new demographic! Celebrate the 5th anniversary of the internet\'s original romantic zombie comedy podcast. More info at http://www.deadenddays.com Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:54:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joell is back, bringing a cheese conundrum with him. Also, Sam and Bridget are broke. We got some e-mails on this episode that felt that Sam's rightous indignation was a little "over the top" in this episode. Little did they know that this is pretty much almost a verbatim transcription of ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-22-real-cheddar-cheese/ The Cranium Cafe, home to some of the finest coffee anywhere. Why I can smell the strong roasted notes of barista overacting, now. Actually the Cranium Cafe was a great bubble-tea place on the Danforth in Toronto called "Fusion" which, sadly, went out of business a couple of months ago. ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-21-the-cranium-cafe/ I think if people only take one life lesson from "Dead End Days" I hope they learn it here: When making a charitable donation - always get a receipt. More classic Evan / Garrett goodness. http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-20-meanwhile-back-at-the-advertising-firm/ (Fingers crossed) all the various hoodoos, mojos, bad spirits, curses, and other daemons have been exorcised from the website and (possibly for the first time ever) the website and podcast feed now appear to both be working just peachy. With any luck normal uninterrupted service can... not resume... occur for ... http://www.deadenddays.com/its-amazing-what-you-can-fix-with-duct-tape/ Pretty much any time someone says "I know a shortcut" in a movie it's a bad idea. Not so much here as it leads to the "punks", and although they only appeared this one, short, time... I feel they've left us with something. Mostly a killer Clint Eastwood impression. http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-19-i-know-a-shortcut/ Any episode with Monopoly Video and/or Chad-the-manager in it is automatically awesome, but this one I love just a little bit more. Especially the art design. Why are all those posters posted feet from the floor? And blocking the door-way? What kind of half-assed operation are they running there anyway? ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-18-busted/ Aww... a date montage, a catchy theme song, this episode is just two leg-warmers away from being a perfect 80s movie! For added laughs re-watch it knowing it was shot on what was, probably, the coldest day I've ever experienced in this province. Thrill to Erin and Chad's youthful exuberance ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-17-the-big-date/ Hey all. Something has gone mortally wrong with the podcast feed for the website - so until the weekend, episode 17 & 18 will be viewable in the lovely main page video viewer, but not on iTunes. Our crack ninja-coders are working around the clock to fix this, by which ... http://www.deadenddays.com/we-apologize-for-the-pictures-but-the-sound-is-excellent/ Dead End Days celebrated another landmark last week - when a sizable portion of past cast and crew gathered in San Diego, California to celebrate the wedding of DED's own Chad Thompson (Bruce) and Jennie Reichert (awesome PA, and long, long, looong time RocketAce supporter). Rather than re-write what I've ... http://www.deadenddays.com/congratulations-chad-and-jenny/ I have yet to figure out an update schedule that makes sense to make up for the problems with the site recently, so in the meantime here's a fresh start on day two to get us through the week! Hope you all enjoy! http://www.deadenddays.com/episodes-15-16-are-go/ You know, I can't tell you how many times I've watched through this show, read the scripts, proofed the scriptbooks, did interviews about it... and this is the first time it's ever occured to me that Larson (the character) might be a pun on the authors part about Larceny. I'll ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-16-larson/ And our story jumps forward 105 days to when things really start to heat up. Given that this episode contains a very mysterious, very iconic phone call (that's been used in pretty much every trailer for DED that we've ever cut), it may surprise you to know that my favourite ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-15-a-mysterious-phone-call/ Hi everyone, just a short note to say we've given up on our somewhat flawed auto-update system (that has never worked properly) and are back to good old fashioned manual updates! To make up for the break, I've thrown the remainder of Day one up NOW! And we'll start in next ... http://www.deadenddays.com/hello-hello-is-this-thing-on/ And so we reach the end of day one, characters introduced, story primed, and allow our heroes (heroes?) one last moment of respite before we do unspeakably nasty things to them! http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-14-day-one-cest-fin/ Come on people. It's now 2008... even back in 2003 when we launched this episode people understood that "NSFW" also meant "Sometimes Not Safe For Home". http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-13-more-information-on-zombies-can-be-found-on-the-internet/ A lovely little cautionary tale about some of the goings-on which may be affecting our intrepid group. Also characters, intended to be one-off's, who came back with a vengence? Sign me up! http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-12-strange-things-are-afoot/ Episode 11 is now up - sorry about the delay. I've messed the video encoding up on episodes 12 an onward, so I'll need a couple of days to re-do everything. We'll get caught up this weekend, and then back on track for next week. Sorry about that - I had ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-11-and-a-slight-delay-on-12/ Hi everyone - thanks for letting us know about the problem with the latest podcast episode! The new episode will be up tonight (EST)... sorry for the delay, I made a mistake in setting up this weeks auto-update and didn't notice until the e-mails started coming in! http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-forthcoming-please-stand-by/ Evan makes his glorious return from the prologue, with a name and everything! He and our boys hit it off immediately. If by "hit it off", I mean "don't appear to like each other much". Episode 11 was originally webcast on February 13, 2004 http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-11-reintroducing-evan/ I'm pretty sure miss manners didn't write a lot of etiquette guides about making polite small talk with the undead, charming, or not. Episode 10 was originally posted on February 6, 2004. http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-10-guess-whos-coming-for-a-soda/ Sam and Eric down their sorrows in a local watering hole. Hey things have got to get better boys right? Right? Oh wait. No. Episode 09 was originally webcast on January 30, 2004 http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-09-two-guys-walk-into-a-bar/ See, if Sam had a Milkshake, and Bridget had a milkshake... pop culture references from about four distinct time periods would collide. Crazy. Episode 08 was originally webcast on January 23, 2004 http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-08-sams-milkshake/ Something is afoot at Monopoly video, something sinister, and underhanded, or at the very least something involving underground zombie movies. Episode 07 was originally webcast on January 16,2004 http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-07-somethings-rotten-at-monopoly-video/ Every great artistic work of the modern era has a dressing-up montage. And what would Halloween be without some wacky outfits? Well we'd find out, if Eric would just get of that freaking couch. Epiosde 6 was originally webcast on January 9, 2004 http://www.deadenddays.com/epiosde-06-the-great-costume-montage/ This is one of my all time favorite episodes. As mentioned earlier a lot of the things Sam's ranting about should have come across as gross exaggeration, but over time? Prescient prediction. Plus we meet Joell... perchance we'll see him again? <em>Dead End Days</em> episode 04 was originally webcast on <a ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-05-eight-minutes-of-ads/ One of the things that DED scribe Jason Rothery writes about in our kick-ass book, is how we originally had planned for a very different ending and the character played by Jonathan Carryer had a much more important part. But there's one thing we did know, even back in the ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-04-interlude/ Hi there, welcome to the brand-new "Dead End Days" celebrating the 5th Anniversary of RocketAce's very first cult webserial! We've still got a little dust to work out of the site over the next week so if you notice any quirks or errors please drop us a line. In the ... http://www.deadenddays.com/pardon-our-dust/ Hey we're almost done introducing our core cast! DED fun facts: a) This was actually the first episode of DED we ever shot! b) Yes, back in the "day" of aught-three, eight minutes of advertisements before a movie was a gross hyperbole. How times have changed. Dead End Days episode 03 ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-03-meet-sam-and-bridget/ Introducing everyone's favorite previously-deceased-rights-activist, Bruce! Episode 02 was originally webcast on <a href="../right-back-atcha/">December 12, 2003</a> http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-02-meet-bruce/ Day One! Eric and Ashley have clearly hit a rough patch in their relationship. We'd tell you it's going to get better, but we'd be lying through our teeth. Episode 01 was originally webcast on December 5, 2003 http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-01-eric-and-ashley/ This is how it all began. Five marketing wonks against a deadline launched the 2003 epic, "Dead End Days", and now we're re-running the entire series as a higher resolution podcast. Who are these people? What are they doing? Will we ever see any of them again? All these questions ... http://www.deadenddays.com/episode-00-prologue/ Hi everybody! The site logs inform me we are just a hair over a month away from a significant multi-year anniversary of the creation of everybody's favourite resurgent romantic zombie marketing adventure that we (thankfully) chose not to call "Bonesuck" (more on that fun topic in the commentaries in the lovely ... http://www.deadenddays.com/1400-days-later/ Just in case you missed the giant banner on the main page we have a brand new series trailer viewable on-line to help promote the book and DVD set. Both have been flying off the shelves since Christmas, but we now have (finally) stocks of both in stock so orders are ... http://www.deadenddays.com/new-series-trailer/ The Rocket Ace on-line store has gone through a complete overhaul, and has officially reopened. It can now be found at http://www.rocketace.ca/store or by clicking the “Store” link or banner ad on this very web-page! We are awaiting our stock from the manufacturers, so orders at this point are "pre-orders", however ... http://www.deadenddays.com/ded-book-and-dvd-set-available-for-pre-order/ Hi everyone, lot's to cover so let's get to it. The long-rumoured "Dead End Days" 4-Disc DVD box set has finally been officialy announced. This huge set is packed with the entire series, plus all the extras we could cram in and will be ready for order October 31, just ... http://www.deadenddays.com/dvd-book-info-plus-big-news/ Whoops. As nice as the new site design is - it's not so nice when the download links to the video files are all broken. Suffice it to say, the download manager is now all cleaned up (if by "cleaned up" you mean "re-written from scratch") and seems much more ... http://www.deadenddays.com/whoops-downloads-fixed/ Welcome to Dead End Days v2.0 (and a bit). There's some new goodies hiding around - so be sure to check it out and let us know if we've left something unplugged. The fine folks in the forums suggested some minor tweaks and changes already in their sneak peak so ... http://www.deadenddays.com/ooh-shiny/ Hiya Screenheaders… thanks for the linkage! Server seems to be holding up ok, although downloads might not be as zippy as we could have hoped while your multudinous hordes run wild. Feel free to stop by the forums and say “hi", or swing over to rocketace.ca to see what new goodies ... http://www.deadenddays.com/the-eyes-the-eyes/ Whew. Again I humbly bow to the amazing amounts of feedback we've received on episode 48, my worries that we wouldn't be able to meet your lofty expectations for the finale were (thankfully) meritless. It's been really great to hear from all the people who have come out of the ... http://www.deadenddays.com/whats-next-for-deadenddayscom/ Tonight, on a very special weekend edition of "Dead End Days"... Okay... I'd like to thank you all for coming out this evening... It's great to see such a good turnout. Before we get started, I'd like to thank you all for your patience, I hope the extra couple of ... http://www.deadenddays.com/ded-is-dead-long-live-ded/ You may recall, back in special edition #1, we told you we didn't want to stumble with our final episodes, so (even with two weeks of hard post-work poured into the beast to date) we still need one more night to whip the monster finale into shape. The mailing list ... http://www.deadenddays.com/please-stand-by-4/ The last shirt/sweatshirt/hoodie order has been sent to the presses! It will take them a few days to gather all the needed materials together - so I can try to sneak an additional order to two in, if there are any stragglers - but I can't guarantee anything. Thanks to everyone ... http://www.deadenddays.com/cue-the-julia-roberts-shopping-montage/ (Put on sad music and picture me on your doorstep with flowers. It helps) Well here we are. It’s… been a long time. You… look nice. Thanks for coming back, I know I have been really busy lately what with the last episode going up this week and all. I’m sorry ... http://www.deadenddays.com/a-letter-from-director-matthew-hoos-to-his-loyal-viewers/ Well we warned you, and sure enough here's one last special edition for you kids. There's been so many new users popping up on ye olde forums lately, that we figured a succinct story recap was in order before the big payoff. Also if you've been waiting until the last minute ... http://www.deadenddays.com/what-a-long-strange-road-its-been/ Note: Photos included below! When Brad asked me to write a production journal this week, I originally intended on writing a thorough and well-reasoned argument as to why I am, by far, the superior of the Fox brothers. However, after threatening to leave me out of the credits (as well as ... http://www.deadenddays.com/a-picture-is-worth-1577-words/ Perhaps you are here only for the new episode, in which case I stongly suggest you go here post-haste! I spoke with Jay this week, more by accident than design. He happened to call while I was the only DED staff member in the teleconference suite in the Southwest annex. ... http://www.deadenddays.com/bonefire-of-the-news-post/ I have no idea how I'll look at myself in the morning... see what you've done to me? Oh lets just do this: "We still need about a dozen orders to give the green light to our Dead End Days custom clothing sale, and since we all really want our black ... http://www.deadenddays.com/look-what-youve-made-me-do/ Though Dead End Days has a political slant, it is not, by and large, a political film. Though I take pride in layering some level of social or cultural or political awareness into the various projects I’ve worked on, I’m always conscious not to digress into manifesto territory. The goal, ... http://www.deadenddays.com/the-triumph-of-fear/ Hey a new episode that doesn't have the word "special" in the title. Crazy, man. Crazy. I don't know about you guys but the recent spate of "viral advertising" is starting to make me paranoid. While I can see why this type of marketing would be effective, it's made me cynical ... http://www.deadenddays.com/viral-infections/ We've threatened that it's coming for a while now (and if you were on the mailing list you'd have known about it already)... so here it is, the "Last Gasp" clothing sale is a special opportunity for those of you who have wanted a style/size/colour of "Dead End Days" shirt ... http://www.deadenddays.com/last-gasp-clothing-sale/