Until my dying day, I will deny that those are real vampires.
Not afraid of sunlight? Not repelled by crucifixes or holy water or garlic? Casting shadows and appearing in mirrors? Not sleeping in coffins? Being “sparkly”? No fangs at all?!?
“Vampires” my butt. Those are, at most, people with severe eating disorders....
Words fail…
Taken at the Best Buy in Burlington, North Carolina....
Premium cable/satellite channel Showtime had a free trial weekend over the past few days.
So I wound up watching, of all things, the movie Twilight and its immediate sequel New Moon.
Ehhhhh… they were okay, I guess. I still don’t think that Edward and his kin are real vampires. I mean: they aren’t afraid of daytime, they don’t sleep in coffins, they aren’t repelled by crucifixes or garlic, they don’t have actual fangs…
Those aren’t vampires. They are, at best, people with severe eating disorders.
(I still think that Anne Rice will always be the master of vampire fiction. Akasha would have incinerated the entire Cullen clan without batting an eyelash… and we all know it! 🙂...
Yes I do. And I use it for quite a bit of mirth and merriment!
(Okay seriously, for all of y’all going to see Eclipse tonight, hope you have fun 🙂...
I’m very thankful for the Twilight movies, because never again will I get flack from my sister for going to see the Star Wars movies premiere at midnight.
‘Nuff said....
You know him as Lincoln the Rail-Splitter, Lincoln the Lawyer, and Lincoln the President of the United States.
Now, bestselling historical author Seth Grahame-Smith has uncovered the true story of Lincoln… the Vampire Slayer.
Behold the trailer for the book!
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter should be in bookstores everywhere about now, and will almost certainly become required reading in history classrooms across the country....
…when all the literature on the front shelves of the bookstores is about either vampires, zombies, or Sarah Palin....
Yeah, I’ve read Twilight, the first novel of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series that has sold bazillions of copies and is now threatening us with a second motion picture. Even though I’m hardly the target audience for these books, I figured that it’s culturally relevant enough to acquaint myself with it.
And I have to report to all two of this blog’s faithful readers that much to my surprise, I enjoyed Twilight more than I had anticipated. So far as vampire fiction goes I’m still going to consider Dracula to be the high bar, along with Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles (the first several books anyway). But in Twilight I found a satisfying fulfillment of something I hadn’t realized there had been a dearth of: a thoroughly modern-day American vampire mythos.
And that’s the thing that makes me want to read the other books in the Twilight series: Meyer does establish ...
A 13-year old middle-school student in Des Moines, Iowa apparently got a bit too carried away with the Twilight books. He was remanded to juvenile corrections after trying to bite and suck the blood out of 11 fellow students.
Twilight is the first book in a series written by Stephenie Meyer about a clan of “vampires”. No, I haven’t read the books. But these alleged nosferatu aren’t afraid of sunlight, aren’t repelled by garlic, aren’t stopped by running water and aren’t turned away by crucifixes. Those aren’t vampires: they are, at most, people with severe eating disorders. Anyhoo the books are wildly popular (but y’all know that already right?) and Twilight just became a hit movie.
And to think that some people say I go too far with Star Wars 😛...