I haven't seen True Blood or read or seen Twilight. I've heard raving reviews about True Blood, as well as both good and bad reviews about Twilight. I'd like to see/read both!

I love reading vampire fiction and I really enjoyed HBO's True Blood.

Twilight was a YA novel and I think that shows in the movie. Probably why it's so big with the tweenies and teenies, lol.

I was under the impression the Anemia was to blame for the whole Vampires sucking myth? Vampires or anemia sufferers needed iron rich blood and shunned sunlight for obvious health

related reasons ie… sunlight hurt their eyes. I guess, this was just something I remembered

reading awhile back that may have just been a stab at an explanation? /mellow.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />

I was under the impression the Anemia was to blame for the whole Vampires sucking myth? Vampires or anemia sufferers needed iron rich blood and shunned sunlight for obvious health

related reasons ie… sunlight hurt their eyes. I guess, this was just something I remembered

reading awhile back that may have just been a stab at an explanation? /mellow.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />

I know porphyria has been mentioned as a cause in several of the sources I've researched. I just went and grabbed this as a quick definition of the disease.

"These poor souls are extremely sensitive to sunlight that can easily result in burns and abrasions, and so they prefer darkness. They suffer from acute attacks of abdominal pains, vomiting and loose stools. Their urine may have a purplish-red color leading some to wrongly believe that it results from drinking blood. Those afflicted may have increased hair growth, and with repeated damage, their skin tightens and shrinks. When this occurs around the mouth, the canine teeth appear to be more prominent, and suggestive of fangs. At other times, it causes depression and affects the brain to produce peculiar behavior. It is probably no surprise that garlic makes all the symptoms worse. Porphyria is a misunderstood condition that has affected the likes of Mary Queen of Scots and King George III." – source

I know porphyria has been mentioned as a cause in several of the sources I've researched. I just went and grabbed this as a quick definition of the disease.

"These poor souls are extremely sensitive to sunlight that can easily result in burns and abrasions, and so they prefer darkness. They suffer from acute attacks of abdominal pains, vomiting and loose stools. Their urine may have a purplish-red color leading some to wrongly believe that it results from drinking blood. Those afflicted may have increased hair growth, and with repeated damage, their skin tightens and shrinks. When this occurs around the mouth, the canine teeth appear to be more prominent, and suggestive of fangs. At other times, it causes depression and affects the brain to produce peculiar behavior. It is probably no surprise that garlic makes all the symptoms worse. Porphyria is a misunderstood condition that has affected the likes of Mary Queen of Scots and King George III." – source

Porphyria…. That's worlds away from anemia. I stand very corrected and refreshingly enlightened. The symptoms read more like a curse than a disease? Thank you MichellePillow !

I love reading vampire fiction and I really enjoyed HBO's True Blood.

Twilight was a YA novel and I think that shows in the movie. Probably why it's so big with the tweenies and teenies, lol.

True Blood, season two, tonight. I'm addicted.

I like there are shape shifters involved, also.

This is a great show.

Finished reading twilight series, seems for the younger set.

Doing my research for the vampire part of the June article, I ran across a fact that I found very interesting. One method the Eastern Europeans believed could slow a vampire was to spread poppy or millet seeds in the coffin of the suspected vampire and throughout the cemetary. They believed that vampires had an obsession with counting, and by doing this, they would count every seed before attacking anyone, giving the village time to detect and destroy it. I immediately thought of "The Count" of Sesame Street fame. Did someone really do the research on that character, thus creating a vampire who loves to count, or was it just coincidence? Hmmm….. /dry.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

Either that or Dracula is a Christian Science heroin addict

This sounds an awful lot like me in the cyber canopy after a gallon of absolut, case&half of beer and half a bottle of tequila. All except the teeth and the titles of royalty!

I don't know, after absolut, that much beer and tequila, I'd be inclined to crown myself royalty, lol.

Yeah, but they never respect your authority

Doh!

It's all in the coup training manual.

1. After inserting yourself as supreme ruler you

must appoint influential , prominent people as

high ranking cabinet members. This will solidify

your position in the hierarchy structure.

2. Liquidate all people refusing to accept your

generous offer of influence and power.

3. Send lowest ranking cabinet member for more ice and

Crown Royal. ( send armed escort of loyal henchmen

along with them ) /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

*taking notes* "How to have coup"

Now, does it have to be Crown Royal? /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

No actually the manual just says: " Insert your favorite adult beverage here."

It also gives you a choice in the henchmen clause. The choices, if I remember

correctly, are BFF's for female insurgents and compadres for the Bubba club

among us. /laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

Awesome! now, does it have to be one beverage, or can I just make the first order of state business the acquiring of a bar? As you can see, there might be a reason why I'm not in charge, lol