I love College Humor's take on the Vampire takeover of all media.  This one's got appearances by all my fav's.  Too good not to keep on here for posterity. :)

Clicky for awesomeness:Vampire Reunion

Excellent counterpoint --  not only is the Vampire mythology always changing, so is the mythology of those who defend the human race...

Addendum: After posting this I did a little more thinking about how the myths involve both humans and vampires, and plus with all the literary mashup going on, when I stumbled accross MTV's "Adapt This" segment of "Pinocchio the Vampire Slayer" it seemed oddly appropriate.

Thanks to my favorite vampire blogger over at Entertainment Weekly, Mandi Bierly, for bringing this interesting viewpoint to light this morning.  Esquire suggests the the current vampire craze is driven by the urge young women have to have sex with gay men.

"Vampire fiction for young women is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men: Both create an atmosphere of sexual abandon that is nonthreatening. That's what everybody wants, isn't it? Sex that's dangerous and safe at the same time, risky but comfortable, gooey and violent but also traditional and loving. In the bedroom, we want to have one foot in the twenty-first century and another in the nineteenth."  Source

While I don't entirely agree with this, I do see the continuity within this new class of gentleman vampires hitting the airwaves (Edward, Bill, Stefan, even Angel). They represent the forbidden, the outsider, and a physical representation of the danger of falling in love and possibly getting hurt. Gay men could also be an excellent stand-in for the non-threatening partner who allows the usually gun-shy heroine to develop into a sexual being by rewarding her to the power -- especially over a mythical, immortal creature. Talk about power.

I've arrived, at long last -- new to the world of blogging, but not the world of blogs. I'm finally stepping out of the shadows after many years of silently reading and scheming one of my own. Now the hard part... getting down to business and writing!

Ideas for upcoming content include:

• Sookie Time-Man-Line by special request
• From Angel to Edward
• Bite Me: When Vampires became sexy... a manifesto

Anything you'd like to see? Send me a note!