From Twitter 08-17-2010

• 13:35:31: The 1st 21st C. Vampires: http://bit.ly/ceA730 HT @babiejenks. ++ re: soc. media marketing; vampires progressing or "throwbacks". #trueblood
  
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• 19:11:51: The rebooted Watson blogs. Love it! #sherlock
  
• 22:53:04: Much belated follow up to prev #sherlock tweet: http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/
  

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I wanna do bad things with you

I'm enjoying True Blood more than I ought.

I've only read a couple of the books and last season didn't quite "grab" me, but this season scratches the same "silly-sexy-gory-scary-ohmygodtheydidn't" itch that Lexx used to. It's camp and horror but not quite either, perhaps because it's so firmly planted in the real world (let's face it, if vampires did exist, there would totally be ads like this cluttering up our screen margins. The viral marketing for this show has been fantastic).

For example, the King of Mississippi manages to be both menacing and hilarious during his scene-stealing speechifying (how does a 3,000 year old vampire have a Cajun accent? Who knows? Who cares?):

I know some of y'all watch ;) Please share your criticisms, witticisms, fan art/fic/whatever, more aca-fannery in the comments, 'cos I'm sure I'm missing something.