Naturally, when my co-author forwarded me this:

…I had no choice but to RSVP. The venue could not have been more fitting. The Foundation Room at the House of Blues is dark, cavelike-a place I could imagine vampires would find very comfortable. I certainly loved it, not to mention the free booze and food (who said bacon-wrapped scallops and red velvet cupcakes aren’t dinner?). On a side note, both times I’ve been to the House of Blues in Chicago, I’ve walked from work (about a mile), and it’s been raining. It’s a nice walk, SANS DOWNPOUR.

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So this is how it goes:

I like vampires. A lot. I hear about the movie adaptation of Twilight, I’m pretty sure before I’d ever heard about the books. I am of course interested because again, I have this *ahem*, problem. I see a poster and a preview, and I become more interested, so I buy Twilight (the book) and find I can not put it down, and the same goes for the other 3 in the series-reading the books to and from work, on my lunch breaks, and in bed-averaging about a day and a half per book.
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Waiting for the #72 bus after work today, an ad at the bus stop caught my eye. It was an advertisement for Tru:Blood, a “synthetic blood nourishment beverage”. I was taken aback that there might actually be an alcoholic beverage that catered to freaks like me who have an obsession with interest in vampires. With a tagline like “friends don’t let friends drink friends”, I had to get a closer look. Upon further inspection, I saw that the ad was actually part of a marketing campaign for the new HBO show, True Blood.

Alan Ball, “Six Feet Under” creator, returns to HBO with True Blood, a series based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries books by Charlaine Harris. The show details the fictional co-existence of vampires and humans in a small Louisiana town after Japanese-made synthetic blood – “TruBlood” – becomes available for purchase. Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress at a diner who falls in love with one of the vampires, Bill Compton, who is played by Stephen Moyer-yeah, I don’t know who that is either. But hey-check out this giant piece of man. He plays Liam. Not that I know who that is, but apparently he’s a tattooed, sex-addicted vampire, so consider me interested.

The show’s premiere on September 7th has been prefaced with a viral marketing campaign, based at BloodCopy.com. This has included setting up multiple websites, encoding web addresses into unmarked envelopes mailed to high profile blog writers (I’ll assume my unmarked envelope got lost in the mail), a wikipedia entry collating info, and even a MySpace account (username: “Blood”) complete with video postings.

Author Harris admits that her vampire is a metaphor for minorities, and how they are perceived in society. In the show, vampires have decided to ‘come out of the coffin’ (their terminology, not mine), upon the advent of TruBlood. This is where the show seems be different from other vampire shows and movies-the focus is not on becoming a vampire, but the integration of vampires into everyday society, and the distrust and racism (mortalism?) that inevitably follows.

So…I’m pretty sure the marketing campaign is going to end up being more interesting than the actual show. Although I did learn a new word researching the show: Fangbangers–women who sleep with vampires. Loves it!

Eh, I’ll still watch it, I’m sure. But if it’s super lame, I’m gonna be pissed that it got picked up, and a second season of Moonlight didn’t.

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Hi, my name is Ali and I have a vampire problem.

Now that I got that out of the way, I can nerd out. In a new issue of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” comic book” series, Buffy sleeps with a fellow slayer. Hot shit. But alas, the hot, ass-kicking blonde is not officially joining the other team. According to Joss Whedon, Buffyverse creator-

“We’re not going to make her gay, nor are we going to take the next 50 issues explaining that she’s not. She’s young and experimenting, and did I mention open-minded?”

Besides, anyone who knows anything about BTVS (cue the chirping crickets), knows that Willow is the token carpet muncher. Can’t wait for some male vamps to gay it up.

Sorry, the only picture I could find of the actual lesbo action was on Perez. But you nerds can buy the comics through Dark Horse, or Amazon, whatev. Or you could just go to Borders and drool over it there. I swear, this shit is like porn for me.