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Hot for Zombies?
Vampires are so yesterday’s news.
Because now that the New York Times Style section has declared the undead as the “it” thing (thanks, didn’t KNOW there was a trend!), their reign is sure to be over soon, this article posits.
After all, once the Times writes about something it’s mainstream. So what’s coming next in your supernatural stew? “The Frisky” points out that now that Daniel Radcliffe is now “of age” he’s officially “crush-able” so girls may now admit they’re swooning for the wizard especially since the sixth filmic installment contains the most romance so far in the series.
Werewolves are another potential lust object, especially with the New Moon film releasing in the fall. But there is the hairball factor with werewolves, admittedly a big deterrent.
So what are we left with? Ah, yes. Zombies. “The undead are eternally sexy, and maybe all we need is a Robert Pattinson type in an Herve Leger-esque zombie suit to resurrect the walking dead and make it the new of-the-moment arm candy,” The Frisky says. “These post-mortems are inherently less erotic than other beautiful beasties that go bump in the night, but with the right actors and plot, I think this could happen.”
What’s your pick? Wizards, zombies, werewolves or are you sticking with vampires?
Beware of Ireland, home to Vampire Chroniclers
You thought Romania was the country to fear. You figured that was the verboten land, the place you would stay far away from so you’d never be bitten. But a story in IrishCentral.com suggests that it might actually be Ireland that’s producing all these vampires and vampire scribes.
Consider this: Bram Stoker, the godfather of undead literature, was from Ireland. And did you know Anne Rice is an Irish American? And then Angel from “Buffy” was shown to have been made into a vampire in Ireland!
Need I say more?
Will you stay away from or flock to the land of Erin Go Bragh?
Vampires and kids go hand in hand
It all started in the 1970s, apparently. Thanks to the Count on “Sesame Street,” a bunny who is also a vampire in “Bunnicula” and, of course, the chocolate-y goodness of “Count Chocula” cereal, we as a society have learned to accept the vampire. So says an article in the Examiner.com, positing that pop culture depictions of vampires over the last 40 years have socialized us to the undead so we can now embrace sparkly Edward and fangy Bill Compton today.
“The vampire is now a friend and no longer a monster to be feared,” the article says. “Today’s thirty somethings are the ones who were experienced the vampire from the beginning. We are the ones who found these monsters to be cute and no longer scary. Would it be possible that this may be a reason for the rise in vampire in literature?”
You see, this is just the sort of stuff I worry about. It’s all hypnosis, people. It’s all vampires lulling us into a false sense of security with bunnies and chocolates and ‘oh look, something sparkly’ so they can take over the world! Right?
What do you think?
Why are vampires so appealing?
I often ask myself as I lie awake at night wondering why I have been chosen to disseminate the truth about the world of vampires: what is it that makes the undead so appealing to the masses?
Evidently, it’s because they’re “culturally adaptive,” the Examiner.com reports! (Are they cute and cuddly too?) An English professor quoted in the article says, “Vampires are the perfect vessels into which we can pour our current cultural anxieties.”
Ah, the old vessel theory. So what are you pouring into the vessel of Edward then? Or Bill Compton of True Blood?
Or it’s just because vampire admirers see them as objects? Objects for you know what! Vampires have insatiable appetites for everything, including…
Anyway, I think that’s why people are fixated on them.
What do you think?
University Teaching Vampire Lit
Vampires have invaded teen lit and now they’re taking over higher education too. Well, at least at one university. Aurora University in Aurora, Ill. is offering a seminar on vampires in literature, according to the Chicago Tribune.
And the professor is giving students quite the courseload. The paper reports that students in the seminar “Got Blood? Vampires in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture” must read at least 200 pages a night.
Boy, am I glad I’m not in college anymore. Where I went – Vampire Self Defense University of Auckland – we just had to practice our ninja moves, not read “Dracula” or “Interview with a Vampire.”
Vampires in Israel
It just never ends, people.
Apparently, we as pop culture consumers have an insatiable thirst for vampires. (Who else has an insatiable thirst too, my little pretties?)
Word is that Israeli cable provider HOT is launching its own vampire TV show. It’s called “Split” and it’s about a 15-year-old girl who’s half-vampire, half-human. One of her classmates reveals her true identity and, you know, complications ensue.
I’m smacking my palm against my forehead now, because clearly there is no escape from vampires. From Twilight to True Blood to Vampire Diaries to The Strain to another ancient conflict between humans and the once-humans. The show debuts May 28 and the poster for it looks NOTHING like Twilight. I mean, not an ounce of similarity there.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
Leading Scientists Say Vampires Can’t Exist..ha, ha, ha
If I didn’t know better, I’d say hallelujah to this latest research from two physicists who claim vampires can’t exist. Evidently, the pair relied on some scientific thing called geometric progression meaning if one vampire creates two vampires and they create four more and so on and so on, then the vampire population would explode.
And because we’re not living in a world where everyone is a vampire – at least not yet, or maybe we just don’t know it – then, ergo, vampires can’t exist.
Well, much as I would love to buy in, I have to say that as a long-standing reporter at the Bloodcast News Network, I know better.
Vampires do exist and geometric progression doesn’t matter, no matter how much academic research has been conducted over the last 20 years.
But don’t take it from me. The commenters on this blog post explain why: “Actually, the Vampire population doesn’t grow geometrically. Periods of growth are offset by massive losses that thin the ranks and preserve the food-to-vamp ratio. They could at times kill each other off when faced with shortages, or suffer major losses to infection, like Bubonic Plague, Ebola, or AIDS.”
Another commenter points out: “It all rests on the supposition that you become a vampire merely by being bitten, not taking into account that in many vampire myths, you must drink the vampire’s blood too.”
See? Enough said.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com
“Have you not been taught to fear and dread vampires?”
I swear I didn’t write this editorial in the Ohio State University newspaper! I swear, I swear, I swear. I mean, I know it sounds like me. It sounds exactly like something I’d write – this rant about how vampires are really bad, not good as recent fiction tries to convince us.
Allow me to quote the story: “Have you not been taught to fear and dread vampires? I mean, they do suck your blood.”
My point exactly. That is precisely what we try to convey every day here at the Bloodcast News Network. So thank you Gerrick Kennedy and can you please come join our news staff at the BCNN as we seek to uncover the truth.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
Guillermo Del Toro Shows Other Side of Vampires
And on one side of the ring is Stephenie Meyer with her vampires who sparkle and don’t want to kill you and on the other side of the ring is film director Guillermo Del Toro with his vicious bloodsuckers. In this new book series “The Strain” releasing this summer from Harper Collins, he said he plans to show vampires for who they really are. He has said his vampires will be menacing, disgusting and thirsty for blood. The book is described as portraying a battle of “mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets.”
On June 2 vampires no longer sparkle.
Yours in Vampire Preparedness,
Chris
P.S.: As always I welcome any and all news tips at bloodcastnewsnetwork@gmail.com.
