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I sure think this loomed squares ( are these the old fashioned pot holders we used to make as kids ??) quilt is cool..
You crafty geniuses tell us how this is made ....
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Lettie Mae's loomed potholder quilt
Open Letter to Mr. Alan Ball
Mrs Jetplane has some suggestions for Alan Ball
Mr. Ball...Alan...may I call you Alan...
Well Alan, first and foremost I want to THANK YOU. I want thank you for bringing the wondrously amazing Mrs. Harris' books to life. Thank you for letting the world know about these great characters and bringing them into our homes on Sunday nights for 12 weeks (only 12 flipping weeks?). HBO I understand you like to bring on new programming...like constantly, but seriously only 12...Boo.
But I do have a bone to pick with you and your writing team. While obviously brilliant and creative you have taken TOO MUCH creative liberties with a book series that is too widely loved. You have made changes to the story lines in season 2 and 3 that make books in the series too improbable now. While some changes are good... i.e. Lafayette others have disastrous consequences...I'm talking about MARY ANN and FAE here (and Hot Shot/Calvin Norris). You have messed with characters and story lines so much that its beginning to make me dislike the show at certain times.
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True Blood's big finale will burn your face off
and Meredith with her final for the season
Last night was the season finale of True Blood, so was it a spine-ripping good time? Sorta. There was a lot of good, and a lot of bad. But let's break it down Pro/Con style.
All in all, I left this episode feeling satisfied but not as excited for the next season as I should be. Maybe because the cliffhangers weren't anything we've really been invested in this season. Or perhaps it's because The King of Mississippi is seemingly off the show? Was it a bad True Blood episode? No, it wasn't. But it didn't feel like a season finale. Still, there was still plenty of charred vampire face to go around.
Con: And we're off! Eric and the King are helpless on the ground, exposed to the sun's rays. And then, out of nowhere, Baby Angel Vampire Godric shows up. Oh dear.
Con: Even the King seems to agree with me...
This whole angel vampire baby chanting nonsense phrases like "peace" over two slowly roasting vampires makes absolutely no sense.
Con: Meanwhile, Sookie is trapped in her blood-draining coma...with a chandelier. That must mean something or another. [Edit: Wait it's possibly a UFO? Oh cripes].
Pro: But there's no time, she's up and pissed. After getting basically bleeding close to an inch of her life, yet again on this series, Sooks is no longer taking this shit from these vampire idiots. And with one sharp slap to the face we've got season one Sookie back. Welcome back, Ms. "I don't take shit from anyone waitress." We missed you.
Con: Being the big go-getter that she is, Sookie goes outside, finger blasts the silver handcuffs, the King's face and drags Eric inside. Well, he's at least twice her size. Sookie being able to drag in Eric seems a bit ridiculous, but then again maybe she has super finger blast fairy strength as well. Plus it seems silly to point out all the "that's not possible" problems on a show about meth-head werepanthers. But moving on, Eric needs blood, human blood. And since they have ANY human blood at all in Fangtasia? Not even in the creepy former human prison in the basement, Sookie must be drained, yet again by Eric. I don't know about you guys, but just thinking about all the times Sookie get blood sucked in and out of her body makes me lightheaded.
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Go ask Dallas " How did Tara know what a shape shifter was ?"
In the breakfast scene in Sam's trailer when he tells her what he is ..how on earth did she know what one is ?
When Sam told Sookie who Dean was he had to do a lengthy explanation - how is it that Tara already knew ???
Man, ol Dallas is stumped ??
Anyone ????
s: episode_3.12 Evil is Going On, Season 3 music True Blood Season 3 finale " Evil is going on" : Let's look at necklaces ! Part 3
OK last 2 --the funky beads of Lafayette and the magnificent rocks on Queen Sophie Ann.
“True Blood” Sucker Punch: Season 3, Ep. 12
Mark gives us his final Sucker Punch of the season
“I’m gonna be a minister’s wife!”
True, Lettie Mae’s assertion that she’s turned her life around by having an affair with her minister may not be the most important moment of this year’s season finale, “Evil Is Going On,” but for me, that declaration sums up a lot of what has made this season great.
For one thing, it’s a funny, tacky line, especially the way that Adina Porter delivers it, and True Blood would be nothing without its tacky humor and excellent acting.
But Lettie Mae’s pronouncement, made to Tara as they stand on Lettie Mae’s porch, also suggests a yawning chasm of desperation… of the pain brought about by misguided love. And if you’ve been reading Sucker Punch this year, then you know I’ve been following that very theme for weeks.
The Lettie Mae moment also captures the specific tenor of this episode. When she tells her daughter that she has found peace in the arms of a philandering man of God, you can see Tara’s heartbreak… and heartbreak ties everything together this week.
Because really, despite the murders and the screaming and the visions of demons, this is one of the saddest episodes of the year. It’s pretty gutsy to close the season on such a devastated note, but as I reflect on it, it makes sense. True Blood spent the last eleven episodes showing us all the ways that love can hurt people, and more to the point, it showed people doing crazy things because of that love. By ending the year in a (relatively) quiet place, the show gives itself the freedom to explore new emotional terrain in 2011. Instead of picking up at the same fevered point, it can take a breath and adjust its tone, if it chooses.
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Charlaine Harris - Giveaway Aurora Teagarden omnibus
Charlaine Harris, best known for her Sookie Stackhouse books (now TrueBlood) also wrote a series of cozy mysteries. The light, entertaining Aurora Teagarden
I loved these stories and already had them in paperback so I have one beautiful, unread, pristine copy of the omnibus up for grabs. It contains the first four books, Real Murders, A Bone to Pick, Three Bedrooms One Corpse and The Julius House.
All you have to do is comment and make sure I can contact you by email. It'll be a random draw. I will give you till 4pm (GMT) Tuesday 21st September to comment on this post. I'll select a winner through randomiser and it's open worldwide.
http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/2010/09/charlaine-harris-giveaway.html
The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack Season One release !
VD ( wait that doesnt sound very good ?) ain't True Blood but it and Being Human ( BBC America) are great off season fun!
The CW has just released the official track list for The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack, which features eighteen songs including Sky Ferreira’s “Obsession”. The soundtrack will be available in stores on October 12.
This album also includes are artist such as Placebo, Goldfrapp, Smashing Pumpkins and Gorillaz. If you love Vampire Diaries, you will most like love this selection of songs. It’s not exactly mainstream, but totally adequate to the TV show.
The Vampire Diaries: Original Television Soundtrack Full Track List:
- Vampire Diaries Theme (Intro) – Mike Suby
- Sleep Alone – Bat For Lashes
- Running Up That Hill – Placebo
- Obsession -Sky Ferriera
- Bloodstream (Vampire Diaries Mix) – Stateless
- On Melancholy Hill (Feed Me Remix) – Gorillaz
- We Radiate – Goldfrapp
- Hammock – Howls
- The Fellowship – Smashing Pumpkins
- Head Over Heels – Digital Daggers
- Down – Jason Walker
- Currency of Love – Silversun Pickups
- Beauty of the Dark – Mads Langer
- All You Wanted – Sounds Under Radio featuring Alison Sudal of A Fine Frenzy
- Vampire Diaries Theme (Outro) – Mike Suby
For What It’s Worth: Vampires have come a long way, baby
I have never read any vampire books, watched vampire television shows, or saw any vampire films other than an old, black and white “Dracula” movie I saw as a television rerun when I was a kid. However, based on all the current advertisements, it seems to me that vampirism is in.
Vampires are not new, of course. Such folklore and myths have been around as far back as the ancient Romans and Greeks. They are found in Indian, Chinese and African cultures as well. Though known by different names depending where the legend originated, they all seemed to have certain things in common: they were evil; they preyed on the living, drinking the blood essence of life; they were pathetically unattractive, and they were immortal.
Many superstitions originated in Eastern Europe and at times created such public frenzy that corpses were exhumed and stakes driven through the heart, and in some instances just to be sure, the corpse was additionally beheaded. These creatures that rose from their graves under cover of night were often suspected witches, those thought to be insane, and in some areas, bodies that were buried without their wounds having been boiled.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
The Top Ten Hottest Homoerotic True Blood Moments
With the third season of True Blood now behind us, we thought it best to acknowledge some of the series' most outstanding work to date: its sexy, steamy homoerotic scenes. Arguably the show’s greatest, yet least discussed, strength is the use of homoerotic imagery and innuendo (for both humor and heat). It is important to note that we are focusing on homoerotic moments here. So we will not be including love scenes from Lafayette – as yummy as they are. We will be including scenes that involve at least one, if not more than one “straight" man.
1. Sam and Bill Steam Up The Shower
“I hear the water in Arkansas is very hard”... easily one of the greatest homoerotic lines ever uttered on this show. The whole conversation was an innuendo and the scene played out pretty much like the beginning of a really hot gay porn, which is really, other than the thought of Bill and Sam, what brings this item to the top of the list. Spoiler alert: it was a dream sequence (which didn't make it any less hot).
Anyone and everyone watching this episode was a little more than surprised to see Sam saunter over to the motel door and open it to find Bill shirtless and breathing heavily. We're getting the feeling that something is not quite right... until Bill begins to take off his pants and eyeballs Sam's lips repeatedly. Then it's confirmed. By the time they were bound for the shower together the answer was clear and jaws were on the floor. We rewound it...twice.
Anyone and everyone watching this episode was a little more than surprised to see Sam saunter over to the motel door and open it to find Bill shirtless and breathing heavily. We're getting the feeling that something is not quite right... until Bill begins to take off his pants and eyeballs Sam's lips repeatedly. Then it's confirmed. By the time they were bound for the shower together the answer was clear and jaws were on the floor. We rewound it...twice.
Recap: True Blood, season 3, episode 12 – ‘Evil Is Going On’
Last week on True Blood … Eric: [to Russell] Be brave. We’ll die together.
And we’re back. Did you have fun over the Labour Day weekend? I went to a fair and won a rooster crow counting contest and then ate a funnel cake the size of my head.
Here we go! The Where, Why, Wuh? of the third season of True Blood, along with our hopes, predictions and wildest dreams for season 4. (Yes, that Alcide will finally get lucky.)
• Eric has always been a badass, but this time, it’s personal. As he fries in the sunlight outside Merlotte’s, handcuffed to Russell, he learns that Russell killed Eric’s entire family because he needed goats for his werewolves. In today’s currency, that’s, like, well, a whole lot more goats. To recap: Eric has been exacting revenge for 1,000 years over goats. So that viking crown was just a memento? I’m the same. After I’ve stolen my goats … GODRIC! Finally, the little dude shows up to tell Eric that all is love and forgiveness on the other side, even for goat thieves. Who knows if that’s the last we’ll see of Godric, but he looked pretty pouty when Eric told him that Godric had made him the way he was. From the start? Or from the point that he betrayed Eric by giving himself to the sun?
Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/09/13/recap-true-blood-season-3-episode-12-evil-is-going-on/#more-12051#ixzz0zSl49gco
How would you fix True Blood in Season 4 ?
How would you fix True Blood ? Post in comments !
True Blood‘s producers had been raising the stakes all season, packing each episode with shocking revelations, brutal gore-fests, and sex scenes that treaded the line between steamy and creepy. We came into last night’s finale wondering whether we’d see both Eric Northman and Russell Edgington, the vicious vampire king of Mississippi, go up in smoke. And while we did get the answer to that question, we were far more confused and ambivalent after the credits rolled than before it. That’s why we felt compelled to share our five-point plan for making sure one of our favorite shows keeps our attention next season.
Bring supporting characters back into the main plot line. Ryan Kwanten is one of our favorite actors on True Blood. We loved Jason in season two, falling for a fundamentalist Christian anti-vampire sect and then seeing the light and turning against them. While he spent a lot of time off on his own adventures, his path and the Sookie/Bill/Eric story line eventually converged in a satisfying way. In this season, he was entirely wrapped up in the quest to become a cop (along with the totally one-note Andy Bellefleur) and find happiness with Crystal, the unfortunately named (and also kind of one-note) were-panther scion of an inbred, backwoods methamphetamine empire. He barely shared any screen time with any of the other main characters, and it was hard to care about any of the new characters that were introduced. The Sam and Arlene side plots were equally shrug-worthy.
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True Blood Season 3 finale " Evil is going on" : Let's look at necklaces ! Part 3
OK-- how about Lettie Mae's angel and Maxine Fortenberry's polished stones...
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