Loving True Blood in Dallas and Talk Blood Radio fundraising raffle

Please buy a $20 raffle ticket (each ) and help us pay the costs of running the blog and producing the radio show this year. I have created a very sensible budget for this year and am raising the money through Talk Blood episode sponsorships and the raffle. It is the only way I can keep this all going, we ain't there yet so please help...

Your chances of receiving a prize are astoundingly good and we have wonderful items like:  autographed Sookie books by Charlaine Harris, True Blood collectors grab bags, an original signed Andy Swist ( Yes, as in the True Blood paper dolls ) wonderful portrait of Eric & Sookie, True Blood collectors poster ( one of a kind !) and various other gift certificates and other goodies from some of our sponsors!

But best of all you know you helped keep your favorite True Blood Blog or radio show going for another year!

Thanks, Dallas

Also if you have a prize you'd like to donate email me truebloodindallas@gmail.com
Sponsor an episode $50  , you can promote your business etc on the show and on the blog. Email me for more info.

Recap of True Blood Season 4, Episode 2: ''You Smell Like Dinner'

Oh, Bill. It’s only been a year since this vamp got his black heart broken and now he’s doing what he does best: f**king like only vampires can. His words, not ours.
The season premiere of True Blood might have been a hot mess, but episode 2 clears everything up. For starters, we find out why Bill is hanging out throne-side, and whether Jason’s still trapped in an ice box with some rancid meat as his only companion. Catch up on last night’s fan(g)tastic episode with Wetpaint’s recap!

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True Blood Episode 4.02 "You smell like dinner " Music

“Dominatrix” by Zack Tempest

“And The World Laughs With You” by Flying Lotus feat
“Trash The Place” by See Spot Kill
“Lift Off” by John Etkin-Bell and Mike Farmer
“Make Some Noise” by John Etkin-Bell and Mike Farmer
“A Life on the Ocean Wave” by unknown marching band
“Fat City” by Tom Heyman
“Trampolines” by Eric Corne
“Wheels” by Kanude
“Family Man” by Craig Campbell
“Clown Darker” by DJ Acucrack
“Coming Down” by DJ Acucrack
“Well OK Honey” by Jenny O
“Shoot First” by unknown
“You Smell Like Dinner” by Jinx Titanic and Super 8 C*m Shot

Here are the free YouTubes I could find -- enjoy!

 

True Blood Episode 4.03 "If you love me why am I dyin'? " (Video 3)

True Blood Episode 4.03 "If you love me why am I dyin'? " (Video 2)

True Blood Ep 4.03 "If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin'? Video 1

True Blood unleashes the sex panther (in your pants) by Meredith from io9.com

Meredith will be co hosting Talk Blood this weekend !

True Blood's back with another historical vampire flashback that highlights Bill's punk years. It was kind of like watching your father do a beer bong while visiting you at college. But more importantly, WHERE IS REVEREND STEVE NEWLIN?
To the True Blood Pro/Con-mobile!
Pro: Jason awakes up to a good were-panther licking. Of course this is how the good folks of Hotshots clean themselves! I can just imagine the directing in this scene. "CUT. It's just not working, it's not catty enough yet. I don't feel like the unwashed-hillbilly-methface-V-juice-junkies are actually panther people as well. Can we get him to lick Jason on the head? Perfect."

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True Blood Season 4 Crossword Puzzle - Episode 2 " You Smell Like Dinner

What a great way to spend the 4th! Thanks Kristie!

You Smell Like Dinner

'True Blood' Recap: Time for a Shift

Despite some truly stellar moments in "You Smell Like Dinner," the pace was slower than we liked as True Blood's momentum started to kick in and the season's big plotlines shifted into focus: Jason's werepanther relationship is about to get even more intimate, Sam's new shifter friends may not all be what they seem and a great witch/vampire war is brewing. And that's just what we do know. We also know that the moments when Bon Temps is a world full of supernaturals interacting — not just pockets of supernaturals minding their own business — are the moments when the best scenes occur. What we don't know? Who's really pulling the strings. Here's how the different supernatural species fared in the second episode of the season:

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All Hail the Mayor of Bon Temps -William Schallert is in demand — as always

They don't make the big money or get their names above the lights or their pictures on the covers of magazines. But character actors are the lifeblood of show business — and a versatile one can work for decades.

Case in point: William Schallert, who has been a working actor for more than 60 years, starting with his feature film debut in the 1947 period drama "The Foxes of the Harrow" through his current role as the mayor of Bon Temps on HBO's erotic vampire series, "True Blood."

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I posted on on him back in the day here The Quite Amazing Mayor Norris
http://www.lovingtruebloodindallas.com/2009/02/true-blood-s-mayor-norris-quite-amazing.html

Big changes for 'True Blood's' bad boy

Last night’s episode introduced us to the season’s number one storyline as we said goodbye to the Eric we know and love. Breath into a bag, y’all. We’ll get through the rain together.
The icy Swede’s latest real estate investment led Sookie to traipse across the cemetery to Bill’s place to air her grievances. Bill told her that she was S.O.L and alluded to Eric having friends in high places, whatever that means. He also suggested that because of the whole delicious fairy blood thing, Sookie should seek refuge at someone else’s home. I would seek it with Alcide. Just sayin’.

Sookie later discovered that Eric had taken the liberty to make himself completely at home at her place – even going so far as to build a pimped-out cubbyhole in her living room.

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Talk Blood Returns S4 Ep 1 and 2 podcast is up and it's a blast!

What a great time we had last night on Talk Blood Radio - sorry about my cold ! The new blogtalk sounded great !

Great thanks to my co hosts Brian and Andy from Camp Blood and Jef with one f from Houston Press.

You can listen here! Please join us next week live !
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** there is a 20 second lapse at the beginning not sure why - the sound is really so much better this year!
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Chat room transcript !

S4e1and2chat

Go Ask Dallas- True Blood Trivia: Wow , what groceries did Sookie buy ?

Q After being gone for a year, what are the first groceries Sookie shops for ?
A: Well ,the essential of course -

Mother's Iced Animal crackers and Dreyer's MAXX Cookie Dough Ice Cream!


You can see what she buy when they spill when Tara surprises her in the driveway and Tara holds up the ice cream here .

True Blood S4 Episode 2 "You smell like dinner " Inside the Episode (HBO )video

Ep. 38 – Inside the Episode

“True Blood” Sucker Punch: Season 4, Ep. 2 by Mark Blankenship

Mark will be my co-host on Talk Blood radio next week!

I’d like to begin the discussion of this week’s installment, “You Smell Like  Dinner,” with a word about nudity. And no, that word is not “delicious,” despite the physiques of the cast.
This week, I was struck that the show’s relationship to nudity is very complex. Sure, nakedness always comes with a sexual charge, but when characters are naked, they are more likely to drop the conditioning of human society and start spilling inner secrets or behaving like animals. That’s a fairly standard metaphor, I guess—frenzied liberation makes the characters in the musical Hair get naked, too—but True Blood complicates things by letting nakedness reveal different things in different folks. Not everyone is releasing the same kind of wild honesty.

Take Luna, one of the shifters in Sam’s new support group/Run Like A Pony club. Early in the episode, we see her finish a pony run with Sam. They’re both lying on the ground, panting and nude. and since they’re really into each other, there’s obviously frisson. However, they don’t get freaky in the dirt. Instead, they talk about their attraction to each other, about their desire to be honest with each other, and about the difficulty of opening up when you’ve got a lot of big secrets. And when Sam does goes in for a kiss, Luna runs away, in horse form. The suggestion is that Luna, at her naked and vulnerable core, is likely to bolt.

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True Blood: Jinx Titanic & Super 8 Cum Shot for Dinner by Jeff at Houston Press

Jef was brilliant on Talk Blood radio last night ....

The title of this week's column maybe one of the grossest things we've ever typed, and we work the word hymen-smashing into as many articles as we possibly can. Still, we can safely say that after some jerky starts in the series' fourth season, things are back on track in Bon Temps on HBO's True Blood.
We could recap last episode, but we'd rather dwell on the good than the bad. Here's the important bit of information. In addition to the vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, faeries, and demigods we've been introduced to throughout the series, we now can add witches to the mix (If they add a Loch Ness Monster we'll get a bingo). Lafayette and his boyfriend Jesus have begun meeting with a local coven of said witches led by a woman named Marnie.
By the by, Marnie is played by Fiona Shaw, who you may recognize as playing the magic-phobic Aunt Petunia from the Harry Potter films. Nice little bit of irony, there.

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Talk Blood Radio : True Blood Season 4 Eps 1 & 2 LIVE TONIGHT 9:30 pm !

Live TONIGHT: Come and 'Talk Blood' right after True Blood episodes airs.  We will be discussing True Blood Season 4 premier, Episode 1 “She’s not there” and Episode 2 “You smell like dinner "

My co-hosts tonight will be Brian Juergens & Andy Swist from Camp Blood and the vlog Blood Work and Jef with one f from the Houston Press.

Listen Live,  call-in with your opinions and join the amazing chat room!

Click here and here to get involved tonight chat room opens at 9:15pm cst and the radio show begins at 9:30 pm cst . ( 15 minutes after show airs in your time zone!)

You can call -in by dialing 1 (646) 929-0825 

Be sure to join us tonight because we're going to talk True Blood on Talk Blood Radio  live on Blog Talk Radio.  I love hearing you comments and suggestions you can ALWAYS email me: 'Dallas' at truebloodindallas@gmail

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