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(I'm writing blogs while I feel well and my hand isn't hurting from a pinched nerve, so forgive the verbosity.)
I said I wasn't gonna get hooked on "True Blood" the HBO series created by Alan Ball, but I lied. I'm hooked. The story line is about a synthetic blood created by the Japanese called True Blood. It enables vampires not to go around sucking human blood--they can buy a six pack of True Blood and mainstream themselves into regular society if they want to--albeit at night only. Alan Ball is a genius with dialog, and there are moments of sly wit.
Last Sunday's episode was the best yet. It seems that a drop of vampire blood, called "V" is as potent as LSD and the drug ecstasy mixed together. Swallow a drop, or put a drop on an aspirin, mash it up and sniff like cocaine, and you get a high that's out of this world. Jason, one of the main characters, and his girlfriend kidnap a vampire so they can help themselves.
To accomplish the kidnap, they lure a vampire to his door ( he had been watching TV). The girlfriend throws a bag of silver mesh over the vamp's head. Silver makes a vamp weak as a baby. They haul him off to Jason's house and tie him up with silver wire round his hands and feet. This vampire is a paunchy middle aged looking man. Jason complains about him being so heavy and asked how he got that way.
Ed, the vampire, is wearing cotton pants and shirt, neatly tucked in and belted. In a sad doleful voice he says"I was an accountant. I lived a sedentary life. Lots of junk food. One day my son came home crying because the other kids said his father was a faggot. My wife took him and left me. Then I went to a gay bar."
Jason says How'd that go? Ed looked down at his out of shape self and said sorrowfully "You tell me."  Then he says "There was a man there who looked worse than I did but he was surrounded by beautiful young men. I asked who he was and they said he was a vampire. It didn't take long to find one to "turn" me(into a vampire.)"
Whom ever that actor is deserves an award..he was pathetically memorable, a loser in life--and in death.
susil
