I found out about Zombie-O-Rama in a round-about way. My sister said that she and her friend were going on a zombie bar crawl that was happening later in the month. Soon thereafter there was an article in the paper saying that there was a Zombie Event happening in downtown San Jose. Andrew saw it and wanted to find out who was running it.

At the Zombie-O-Rama website I discovered Dan Vado, who is the commander in chief of SLG Publishing, was the man behind the event. He is a well-respected publisher of indie comics, including being the launching point for Jhonen Vasquez. Jhonen Vasquez is best known for the cartoon, Invader Zim, but he has many other fun little dark and gruesome comics that SLG publish. 

As expected Vado was definitely busy before the event - too busy to come be interviewed on our program. Andrew wanted to get Vado really badly though, so I knew he would possibly succeed in doing so. And thus, I ask my sister to take a video camera with her to the Zombie-O-Rama.

I have not yet seen the videos that Maureen took at Zombie-O-Rama but she also graciously agreed to be a guest as well as Dan Vado and they were a good team. Maureen was also kind enough to come in a costume very similar to the costume she wore at the actual Zombie-O-Rama, so we have some great color to go along with her and Vado's stories. All in all a fun, fun show that I'm sure that our viewers will enjoy.

Did I remember to take pictures? No.  

If you have never heard about Maker Faire, then you are not paying attention. I have talked about it repeatedly on this blog. Several of our guests came from it. There are all sorts of pictures and movies online about it. This amazing fair happens annually in the Bay Area and increasingly all over the country, and even the world!

Makers are creative, inventive, artistic and super-smart. But I figured it would also be like herding cats. So I wanted to see who was in charge of it, Sherry Huss. I have been hoping to get her on the show for a long time. She is the director of Maker Faire. I wanted her to explain about how they put it together and how she manages to collect and organize all those makers.

She was even more fabulous than I expected and she has a great speaking voice. She brought signage from the Faire, as well as books and magazines explaining how to make things, to dress up the set. She graciously gave the crew the books and magazines after the interview. I received the Fashioning Technology book I’d been thinking of buying. Excellent.

This episode is remastered from the original by adjusting color, brightness, and video loss for better viewability. The staticky video loss remains visible, but I mitigated the visual effect to the best of my ability. Music was added under the credits. Here is the link.

I'm always thankful to have interesting friends. Both Keith and Andrew mixed up the tape date thinking it was a week earlier than it actually was. Andrew had booked the guest for the earlier date and they were unable to make it to the actual day although they didn't let us know until two days ahead of time. At least it gave us a little time.

I am not always good at thinking of details under pressure but I managed to think of three different people who might have sub-cultures that would be interesting to have on the show. Two couldn’t make it.

Lucky for me, one of my best friends has a boyfriend who teaches ballroom dancing. So, when I called him, David very kindly agreed to come beyond the show and bring another teacher with him. They would do some dancing and they would talk about ballroom dance.

The dancing was lovely and David is very knowledgeable about ballroom dance, just as I figured a teacher would be. I feel very fortunate that we could put together this great show on very short notice.