Zuzu narrates a strange Prague encounter with creatures she calls Cobblers.
My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”
“True Blood” in haiku.
At the moment I have a totally healthy obsession with the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries by Charlaine Harris, the novels that have become the HBO phenomenon known as "True Blood." I say my obsession is healthy because it's my ...
For the first time in my life, I am working with children. I don't particularly like children, or want to have any of them, but this job is exactly what I need to supplement my writing and so I'm doing it, with interesting results. Day One with the kids ...
This was the episode that inspired this blog, and is easily one of the saddest 45 minutes, like, ever. After Wendy's murder on October 28, 2000, I started to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer religiously. I knew if Wendy were alive she'd still be having ...
A surefire way to alienate good folks and lose friends is by being fake. Fake people are the worst. To clarify, being fake is very different from being polite or professional. Being fake is pretending to be friends with people you can't stand and not ...
A strange local phenomenon: Czech people eat in public all the time. Not just normal eat-on-the-go types of foods like gyros, ice cream or pizza. You see them at tram and metro stops nibbling on peices of bread. Not French bread, or croissants, or even decent healthy-looking bread. It's always ...
Written on a postcard embossed with the cover of the Twilight series' finale, Breaking Dawn:Did someonedrop youon your headas a baby?Where the stamp could go that if needed I would affix with a smear of vomit:PragueJanuary 23, 2009Is what's wrong with you this ...
Prague is a demanding city. It gives so much, but it also takes a lot. Energy, life, money. These things exist in abundance here, but they also flow away so quickly. Prague is a vampire's city. Shrouded in gray for more than three-quarters of the year, it is the perfect place for those who ...
The year 2008, and so far six months living in Prague. Today is the first day the Sun has broken through the cloud cover and pierced the shield of this vampire city. I haven't written for ages, and I think it was because my last blog incarnation of The TripWire went stale and my ...
In A Glass Darkly is known as one of "the classics of occult fiction" and one of the first novels that portrays strange occurrences from an observer's detached perspective. When I was researching horror for my novel Terata Americana of the Raving Variety, I read numerous references to ...
On Friday, March 18, 2005 the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights began its substantive discussion on Agenda Items 4 and 5, Item 4 dealing with the Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights, and Item 5 pertaining to The right of peoples ...
True Bloodiness
While your article is a thoughtful examination of some of the more interesting moments of "True Blood" Season 2, I disagree with you 98%. When compared with the books, which are straightforward and far more compelling than what we see on screen, the television adaptation makes no sense. The ...
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