Preston Jones has been cast in a recurring role on True Blood

"Dallas" is extra proud of him because Preston is a Dallas hometown boy !

Check out his MySpace

His webpage http://www.prestonleejones.com

Preston has been cast as Dirk a FotS member.

Fresh Blood for True Blood

Source:Variety

True Blood is casting up in preparation of its second season. According to Variety, Preston Jones has landed a recurring role. Jones cut his teeth in television and recently wrapped Road Trip II: Beer Pong for Paramount Pictures. It's unknown what role he'll play in Blood's ongoing look at the life of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and the creatures of the night that inhabit it. The first season of the series arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray May 12th before season two begins this summer.

OK , so now you want a rainbow umbrella just like Sookie's

Here is a cute one

Singin' In The Rainbow

COLOR WHEEL UMBRELLA
There's nothing like a colorful rainbow to cheer up the dreariest of rainy days. This big and bright color spectrum umbrella from the Museum of Modern Art's collection will protect you from the rain and brighten your spirits on a cloudy day. For it's size, it is extremely lightweight. Well designed and constructed, it opens and closes easily with a simple push or pull - no pinched fingers here! The bright silver hook handle is an elegant touch to the bold wheel of color, including shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.



Target also has a little foldable one

OK, Stephen is a funny as Curly from the 3 Stooges

Looking the sequence of photos taken of Stephen walking through the True Blood set , it struck me as to what he's doing with his hands as he walks, is seems he may be doing like the snap with the hand, into a fist and then into the palm of the other hand...

Anyway, all I could only think of the hilarious Curly Howard of the 3 Stooges doing that movement ...

10 seconds into this hilarious " oyster stew " clip

Virtual mainstreaming

By Simon Dyda

Ever since the 'Great Revelation' growing numbers of 'fangophiles' have been joining the ranks of the American Vampire League and voicing their support for the Vampire Rights Amendment to the US constitution. More and more of your undead neighbours in the US have been 'mainstreaming' into American society. Similar events are unfolding across the globe, although there are plenty of less progressive parts where mainstreaming is still not an option. In these cases the internet has been of invaluable assistance, offering vampires the opportunity to integrate on a 'virtual' level with human society even when that is not possible in the real world. And in those countries where it is possible to mainstream, the internet has proven to be of great help for those vampires taking their first steps towards social integration.

For most vampires the internet experience has been thus far pretty interesting. My impression as an AVL volunteer has been that they enjoy dropping in to their myspaces, facebooks, bebos, youtube channels, blogs and twitters and interacting with their human cyberfriends. The vibe is generally a good one. Sure, there are always a few weirdos leaving creepy comments about silver bullets, stakes and sunrises and what have you, but these are easily deleted and their authors shown to the virtual door.

However, some of our nocturnal kin are being overwhelmed with messages and requests. Remember, nobody likes a needy cyberfriend. Just because a vampire drinks Tru Blood doesn't mean that they have either the time or the inclination to help you get hold of some, especially considering that you don't actually need it yourself, now do you? Another thing: just because vampires have such very long lifespans doesn't give you the right to demand their time or tell them what to do. Be nice, relax. Social networking has to be fun, whether you're human or vampire, so keep it that way.

Read on ..fascinating !

http://www.simondyda.com/2009/01/virtual-mainstreaming.html

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Before the Dawn by Evanescence

True Blood behind the Scenes : Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer on the set!

Spoiler TV has just posted some great shots of Anna and Stephen on the True Blood set ...
They will be posted everywhere soon

you can see them all here

http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2009/01/true-blood-set-photos-24th-jan.html

OD notes in a text this morning that she thinks that Anna still has the same hairstlye as in the season finale ( the curls) so when these were taken they must have still been filming the first couple of episodes...oh and she also thinks Stephen looks great in black :)

Word of the Day : reconnoiter

Who uses this word and in what book ?

reconnoiter

SYLLABICATION: re•con•noi•ter

VERB: Inflected forms: re•con•noi•tered, re•con•noi•ter•ing, re•con•noi•ters

TRANSITIVE VERB: To make a preliminary inspection of, especially in order to gather military information.

INTRANSITIVE VERB: To make a reconnaissance.
ETYMOLOGY: Obsolete French reconnoître, from Old French reconoistre, to recognize. See recognize.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
2000.

Vanity Plates seen in Bon Temp

Eric: LMEBYTU

Pam: IAMDED2

Malcolm: FANGSALOT

Patrick Furnan: URCHEATINHART

Any vamp cop: DEADLYDORIGHT

Sam could be called 2NATURD

Loving True Blood Dallas Blogtalk Radio:Role Playing in the True Blood and Sookieverse (Episode 8)

We are thrilled to be discussing various forms of role playing in the Sookieverse and the world of True Blood fandom. I am just amazed at the quality and creativeness of these hyper-fans and I know you will be too .

We are MOST excited to be doing a first EVER (we think) "Twinterview " (a Twitter interview done on the radio, this term was coined by Sookie herself !) Can we do that? Yes, we can and we will!
This should be very interesting Monday night when we will be 'chatting' with the hottest True Blood /Sookieverse Twitter characters there is, @SookieBonTemps ! We will be doing a live radio- to -Twitter interview with the amazing and very entertaining Sookie and we are also grateful that her friend, the great @EricNorthman has also agreed to stop by (and we had to be careful about asking him for favors) and I'm sure he'll liven up the conversation.

You can follow along on Twitter here :

True Blood in Dallas here : http://twitter.com/trueblooddallas
SookieBonTemps : https://twitter.com/SookieBonTemps
EricNorthman : https://twitter.com/EricNorthman

You can contact Becky about Vamps in Bon Temps @ Live Journal here: bravelittlebecky@hotmail.com

You will be able to follow along on both on Twitter and on the radio and they both have agreed to drop into the chat room at the end of the show to talk for a few minutes with our show's fans.

*For the purpose of this interview, I will have to do a little role playing of my own but I think it will be fun and should be very interesting.
* I will post all the links you need to the blog by Monday afternoon

We will also be discussing the amazing 'Merlotte's Bar and Grill' thread on the HBO True Blood Wiki , with LaProv and we will learn about the wonderfully imaginative world they have going on over there, then finally we will be joined by Becky from the Live Journal True Blood RPG community called 'Vamps in Bon Temps ' ! Wow!

This should be an incredible night and a show you won't want to miss.

If you can’t join us live, the show will be archived and available for podcast usually within an hour of the end of the live show. You can listen to it on the blog and it is also available as podcast from ITunes.
Thanks to Object Desire and Miss Information for helping tonight with the extravagant production!

Charlaine Harris was recently asked: What are your ten favorite books, and what makes them special to you?

Here are her answers --

What are your ten favorite books, and what makes them special to you?

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman -- Gaiman's vision of an underground London that encompasses magic and evil, fantasy and good, is a book I've read again and again. The villain that eats ancient Chinese pottery is just brilliant.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen -- No one can write like Jane Austen, and there are reasons Pride and Prejudice is one of the most successful novels ever written. Mr. Darcy is changed by the love of Elizabeth Bennett just as she is changed by his love for her, though their initial impressions of each other are hardly favorable. I love Jane Austen's work, and this is Miss Austen at her best.

Passage by Connie Willis -- This book is about life after death, and I found it profoundly moving and mysterious. Connie Willis can write circles around almost anyone else, and she is one deep thinker.

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton -- The first book in Hamilton's long-running Anita Blake series, Guilty Pleasures, sets the tone for the whole best-selling line. Laurell's trademark recklessness, imagination, and storytelling grip you by the scruff of the neck and never let you go.

The Fourth Wall by Barbara Paul -- Barbara has never gotten her due as a writer, and this book will show you why. It changed the way I wrote women forever. I should have seen the parallel to Jane Eyre a long time ago; this is another heroine who lives largely in her own mind, a woman who reads and values intellect, yet a woman who can take action once she's convinced her course is correct. Also, Barbara's playwright is a woman who never thought about living on her looks. [out of print]

Lullaby Town by Robert Crais -- Bob Crais's Elvis Cole novels are all wonderful. There are only degrees of more-wonderful and less-wonderful. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are the best private eyes in California, or maybe in the world. Crais knows Hollywood, humor and deep feelings, and he can write action. Nothing's better.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde -- Due to my love of Jane Eyre. Imagine being able to visit the book -- to actually be inside Jane Eyre. I couldn't imagine it, but Fforde could.

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich -- This book started a whole phenomenon, but it's good to go back to read it every now and then to reacquaint yourself with the disaster that's Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter. I love books that make me laugh, and this book always does.

The Haunting and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson -- Jackson was one of the best American writers of the past century. She can write funny, or she can scare you till you want to scream. The Haunting can still make the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle is eerie all the way through, from word one.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey -- Tey makes it clear that the crime novel can be a vehicle for much more, in her classic novel about a policeman in bed with an injury whose friends entertain him by bringing him an historical mystery to solve.

True Blood Music Video of the Day

Gots to Get Her by Blake Lewis

Out for True Blood?

We didn't write this post it was written by JD and UKN at Libranigans. What we are guilty of is also being very disappointed at many of the questions ( make that the sometimes self serving complaints or comments ) that took up so much of Charlaine's precious time ...

If you think they shouldn't have this opinion or express it you can let them know here :http://libranigans.livejournal.com/ ( I stand by reposting it)

Also watch the video of the event and KNOW that was all the time she had for questions and you judge for yourself ... Thank you Libranigans for in a very funny way expressing our disappointment too.. Video of these questions being asked is HERE- you don't have to have been there to judge -see for yourself, then think what questions you would have liked to hear Charlaine asked....just sayin'

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JD, myself, and several other coworkers attended a book signing and talk event earlier this month given by Charlaine Harris. I was extremely impressed with her polite and witty smackdowns of douchebag questions. Some examples:

Douchebag 1: I'm from Port Neches. In your book you mention Beaumont. How did you know about Beaumont?

Ms. Harris: I own an atlas.

Douchebag 2: I have a doctoral degree in Greek mythology. Why did you select Maenads over Bacchae? What was your specific reason for that choice?

Ms. Harris: Oh, well have you read _____? (Douchette 2 blinks quietly) Ms. Harris then goes into the various aspects of the Maenads presented in said book as to why she chose them for her book. Douche remained silent.

Virtualdouchebag: Hi! I'm Kat from the boards! (Kat proceeds to launch into a totally irrelevant and obscure topic that silences the entire room)

Ms. Harris: Ah, so YOU'RE Kat. (a strong undertone of Kat is a virtual stalker pest who keeps bothering her)

La Douchette de Triste: In book X, she was a were-lynx. In the very next book, she was a were-fox. How do explain the difference--was it a mistake, or bad editing? Or did YOU make a mistake?

Ms. Harris: Well, yeah...you caught me. It was a complete error on my part. You're the first person to ever notice...aside from the previous 3,000 people who mentioned it.


In addition to the hilarity of lovely retorts, we had front row seats to this view for about 20 minutes:



JD pointed out the scenery, and I had to hold my nose to try and keep all the laughing inside. A snort did escape, and I tried to play it off as a sniffle.

• http://libranigans.livejournal.com/42645.html

Vampire Rights Amendment

Two more Sookie books from France

You know you've watched too much True Blood when...

You Google obsessively to try to find recipes for tipsy cake and hoe-cakes (but NOT for tuna cheese casserole) I have all those recipes here

You see someone with a long chain around their neck and you think "vampire drainer."

You read all seven Southern Vampire Mystery books in one weekend,

You start using words and phrases like "untoward" and "lick your mind" in everyday speech.

You stay up till 5 in the morning rewatching the whole season, just cause it seemed right.

Paging Dr. Ludwig : Season 2- Episode 3 "Scratch my Back"

So it looks like we have the Maenad attack in Episode 3 of Season 2 of True Blood


Eric rushes Siookie to Fangtasi and the healing in the book , takes place on the new red couch in Eric's office where Sookie'e life is saved by Dr Ludwig and the 4 vamps ( Eric, Bill, Pam and Chow) The vamps each drain Sookie of her tainted, poisoned blood from the Maenad attack. She is healed by the draining in combination with Dr Ludwig's special healing licking and she is given a fresh transfusion of human blood...

Sookie really barely survives this attack ...

The scene in the book:

Pam came in then, with the doctor. If I had hoped Eric meant a regular doctor, like a stethoscope and tongue depressor kind of person, I was once again doomed to disappointment.
This doctor was a dwarf, who hardly had to bend over to look me in the eyes. Bill hovered, vibrating with tension, while the small woman examined my wounds. She was wearing a pair of white pants and a tunic, just like doctors at the hospital; well, just like doctors used to, before they started wearing that green color, or blue, or whatever crazy print came their way. Her face was full of her nose, and her skin was olive. Her hair was golden brown and coarse, incredibly thick and wavy. She wore it clipped fairly short. She put me in mind of a hobbit. Maybe she was a hobbit. My understanding of reality had taken several raps to the head in the past few months.
"What kind of doctor are you?" I asked, though it took some time for me to collect myself enough.
"The healing kind," she said in a surprisingly deep voice. "You have been poisoned."
"So that's why I keeping thinking I'm gonna die," I muttered.
"You will, quite soon," she said......

"She is the healer," Eric said, in a rebuking kind of way. "You must accept her treatment."
"Oh, all right," I said, not even caring how sullen I sounded. "By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.
"I am sorry that the maenad picked on you."....

"It's on the way," she said. "This is bad."
"Start," Bill said urgently. "She's changing color."
The dwarf leaped from the couch and bent to examine my eyes.
She shook her head. "Yes, if there's to be any hope," she said, but she sounded very far away to me. She had a syringe

Later in the scene and the best line of the scene

"What happened?"
Pam relaced her fingers around her knee. "We did as Dr. Ludwig said. Bill, Eric, Chow, and I all took a turn, and when you were almost dry we began the transfusion."
..Also, I had no shirt on. Or anything else. Above the waist. Below, my jeans were still intact, though remarkably nasty.
"Your shirt was so ragged we had to tear it off," Pam said, smiling openly.
"We took turns holding you on our laps. You were much admired. Bill was furious."

This Blood’s For You!

A very cool TB related post by admin over at Charming Cocktails

This Blood’s For You!
True Blood’s marketing campaign spotlighted a fictional drink in a bottle called TruBlood. Available in four blood types and followed by several taglines; A Synthetic Blood Nourishment Beverage, This Blood’s For You, What’s Your Type?, and All Flavor No Bite.

Some beverage vending machines across the US were also fitted with cards indication that they were “sold out” of TruBlood. Their website sells mugs, pints, and more.

Vampire fascination has surfaced up and down through time. Today we have the TV show True Blood and the recent film, Twilight. I searched around for some vampire cocktails and found lots of creative ones with garlic infused gin, kisses on the glass, and even a set of vampire teeth as a garnish. If you’d like to learn how to make a pitcher of Bloody Mary mix from scratch then you should check out Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s recipe here.

You will need these ingredients
1 46-oz can tomato juice
1 garlic clove, minced
½ small avocado
¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
1½ oz lemon juice
1½ tbsp steak sauce
2 tsp cracked pepper
1½ tsp celery salt
1½ tsp hot sauce
1 tsp horseradish

Read it all at http://blog.misscharming.com/?p=136