Vampires just don't suck the way they used to.

Hysterical article on Slate about the wussification of vampires in pop culture, culminating with Twilight:

Vampires Suck
Actually, they don't. And that's the problem.
By Grady Hendrix

Last week at Comic-Con, the big story wasn't comic books—it was vampires. Some 2,000 young women set up a tent city outside the San Diego Convention Center on Tuesday, sleeping rough so that they could attend the Thursday panel on New Moon, the upcoming sequel to vampire blockbuster Twilight.

It's just another sign of the massive popularity of vampires. Yet, like many people who acquire mega-celebrity, the vampire has developed an eating disorder. Read the books. Watch the movies. You'll see vampires who manage nightclubs, build computer databases, work as private investigators, go to prep school, lobby Congress, chat with humans, live near humans, have sex with humans, and pine over humans, but the one thing you won't see them do is suck the blood of humans.

Read the whole thing.

Hope AND change!

We are definitely seeing a trend in Obama's job approval numbers.

Gallup: 52% approve, 41% disapprove (older numbers broken down by demographic)

Rasmussen: Rasmussen generates two sets of numbers - a general approval number, like Gallup, and a passion index, which is (% who strongly approve - % who strongly disapprove)

General numbers: 48% approve, 51% disapprove
Passion index: -12

Veeeeery interesting.

Rasmussen also has some other numbers that are rather interesting, also.

The much-touted 'beer summit' is coming up inside the next couple of hours. If I was watching these trends, I'd be hitting the bottle too.

Ebony and ivory

What would we do without Treacher?

Ebony and ivory
Drinkin' liquor in perfect harmony
Side by side in my photo op
Crank and cop
Now stop pickin' on me

We all know
That people hate the cops wherever you go
There is good in them
But mostly bad
When we learn to yell
We learn to tell each other how the whites all hate blacks
Regardless of facts

[Repeat until all the white folks shut up]

fic meme

Seen with greenconverses.

List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.

I haven't written a whole lot of fic lately, but I thought I would give this a shot. Note: I only have so many of these on lj, and I don't archive them on my site in chronological order, so I basically went with my 24, SGA and JLU fic because it's the most current.

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Patterns. Well. I think it's pretty obvious that I like long opening sentences. Except when they're really short. And most of the time they're narration, except for when they're dialog.

BWAH

If only!