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This will surprise absolutely no one, but my favorite part of Dragon*Con 2010 had to be the costumes. I saw people dressed as characters from everything from “Firefly” to “Lord of the Rings” to “Watchmen.” Some were extremely well-made — I couldn’t quite capture the Ghostbusters with ultra-realistic proton packs that lit up — while others contented themselves with wearing clever t-shirts.
Everything You Need to Know About ‘True Blood’ in One Dragon*Con Panel
by Tracy V. Wilson | September 3, 2010
The more I work on FanStuff, the more curious I become about how people interact with TV shows, movies and other media, whether they’re the creators or the fans. This morning, the 10 a.m. “True Blood” panel at Dragon*Con drove the point home. On the panel were Kristin Bauer (Pam De Beaufort), Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette Reynolds) and Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte). Read on for the shenanigans they got up to.
I have a bad habit when it comes to television shows: Once I’m hooked, I’m all in — often until the very, very bitter end. I don’t break up with TV shows that often, but when I’m done, I’m done.
Academia and pop culture have been making strange bedfellows for decades now. The University of Washington offers a comparative history class on the work of rapper Tupac Shakur, Syracuse University made headlines for its course analyzing Lil’ Kim’s lyrics, and the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” became academic fodder almost the second it left the airwaves. If that wasn’t enough, you can go to Liverpool Hope University in the U.K. and earn a master’s degree in Beatles Studies.
Now, the Brits have taken the pop-culture graduate degree idea and run with it: This fall, the University of Hertfordshire will offer what may be the world’s first master’s degree in Vampire Studies. Yes, really.
Top 5 Abstinent Vampires: No. 3 — The Citizens of Purgatory
by Tracy V. Wilson | October 28, 2009
When I started pulling my ideas together for this list last week, I sent a message to my Triforce of geek culture at HowStuffWorks.com — TechStuff’s Jonathan Strickland, ScienceStuff’s Robert Lamb and editor Chanel Lee — asking if they had ideas. I had a pretty clear idea of where I wanted to go, but I wanted to know if they’d seen something I missed. Among their responses was a note from Jonathan about a movie I’d never heard of, called “Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.”
Unlike Angel and Edward Cullen, the whining, self-loathing days of Bill Compton are mercifully behind him. While the “True Blood” vamp certainly — spoiler spoiler spoiler — wallowed in guilt over being a monster, even to the point of threatening to stake himself, he got over it. His era of brooding martyrdom ended well before the synthetic vampire food known as Tru Blood hit the market.
A Different Take on Sex and Vampires: Vampire as Gay Boyfriend
by Tracy V. Wilson | October 15, 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the connection between sex and vampires. This morning, I ran across a link to a different take on the topic in Salon’s Broadsheet blog. There, Tracy Clark-Flory writes about an article in Esquire that equates vampires with gay men. “Vampires have overwhelmed pop culture,” says Stephen Marche, “because young straight women want to have sex with gay men.”
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