Loving True Blood Blog and Talk Blood Radio show/ podcast raffle and fundraiser

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I was hesitant to do this this year and have to do all the extra work of trying to raise the money to keep the radio show on the air - I need 3 more episode sponsors and have tons of raffle prizes! 

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 !) more books, 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.

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Stacy at Vampire Craftin' has found the Eric's fangtastic red quilt

How much fun is this ?? Thanks Stac

In last Sunday's Episode of TrueBlood "I'm Alive and on Fire" (Season 4) Sookie covers Eric with a lovely Red Quilt after he went for a swim in the daylight.  I thought how pretty I love the red with simple embordeiry.  After some searching I found the quilt  ....
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Joe Manganiello: You're Gonna See Werewolf Sex

Joe Manganiello (Alcide) says going to fairyland may have been the worst real estate decision Sookie’s ever made.

“I really do believe — and some of the producers and writers agree with me — if Sookie didn't disappear, Alcide would've built that house for her,” he tells NY Mag.

“As you can see in episode three, Alcide is obviously worried. The way the door was answered, he wanted to kiss her! Being a werewolf, he's had to stomp on a lot of his impulses. All I can say is when anybody continually stomps on impulses, there's going to be a reaction. What's amazing this season is that you see those emotions and physical reactions.”

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True Blood's Joe Manganiello On An Alcide-Sookie Hook-Up, Werenudity, and Working Out

On True Blood, Joe Manganiello's character, Alcide Herveaux, is a sensitive outsider with massive biceps and considerable girl troubles. Turns out they have so much in common: In real life, the actor has likewise been a sensitive outsider with massive biceps and considerable girl troubles! Vulture caught up with this easygoing tall drink of werewolf just after he finished filming season four of True Blood. In addition to giggling about the nudity, we discussed his hopes for an Alcide-Sookie hook-up, as well as his sundry extracurricular activities this summer: eating fried chicken, making his muscles more muscle-y, and hitting the karaoke bar.
What's the first thing you cheat-eat when you finish filming True Blood?
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles! [Somberly] But I'm actually cast in a project right now [What to Expect When You’re Expecting, playing a studly photographer opposite Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez], so it looks like I have to train for it.

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Stephem Moyer on Jimmy Kimmell last night - watch epsidoe ( video )

here is the link

http://abc.go.com/watch/jimmy-kimmel-live/SH559060/VD55136378/jimmy-kimmel-live-721

True Blood Comic Con goodies - love the pillows

OK these are cuter than anything the HBO store has ever sold-- Etsy folks get busy!!
They need some really cute kitsch -y trim !

Sneak Peek Clips for Episode 4.05 Me And The Devil- Pam Demands Action

Ep. 41 Clip - Pam Demands Action

5 Best French Vampire Movies

These are available from Amazon and I'm sure through Netflix

Best known for being horror movies, these 5 best French vampire movies prove that the French can do horror. If you like bloodsuckers, these movies will excite and terrify you. No one does suspense like the Europeans, who take it just a little farther than film-makers in Hollywood do.

1. Nosferatu the Vampyre. Produced in 1979, this vampire film casts the age-old character of Count Dracula. The Count, looking for a house in the Black Sea port town of Virna, becomes infatuated with his real-estate agent’s wife. He moves to Virna and releases his terror on the town. Interestingly, this film depicts Dracula as feeling burdened by his curse of immortality.
2. The Rape of the Vampire. Director Jean Rollin made this vampire flick in 1968. A low budget production, the film feels slightly surreal and carries erotic overtones. As therapist tries to convince four sisters that they are not in fact ancient vampires, the disembodied voice that controls the sisters’ actions is proven to exist. Medical researched struggles to create a cure for vampirism and, ultimately, the Queen of Vampires shows up to state her case.

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Warners to adapt 'A Discovery of Witches' Deborah Harkness novel pits vampires against sorcerers in interspecies war

Warner Bros. is looking for witches and vampires, buying feature rights to adapt Deborah Harkness' "A Discovery of Witches" and setting the project with Denise Di Novi and Allison Greenspan.
The story centers on a reluctant witch and a 1,500-year-old vampire. The witch -- a direct descendant of the first woman executed in the Salem Witch trials -- accidentally unlocks an enchanted manuscript and finds herself in a race to prevent an interspecies war.
Harkness, a professor of history at USC, is writing the story as a trilogy and the second novel, "Shadow of Night," will be published by next year.

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An end in sight for Sookie Stackhouse Charlaine Harris, author of the novels that inspire ‘True Blood’, is wrapping up the series

Charlaine Harris has been writing mysteries for decades. For a long time it was a “heavily subsidized hobby.” Then came the Sookie Stackhouse series of adventures set in rural Louisiana involving vampires, shapeshifters and even fairy godmothers. Suddenly she was famous. Now, with the release of her 11th book, Dead Reckoning, comes news that the series will soon end. But not without a lot of super naturals going to their “true death.” The Southern matron, 59, cackles gleefully at the thought of all the blood she’s about to spill.

Adaptations of her books can be seen on HBO, where Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) has turned them into the massively successful True Blood series starring Anna Paquin and Alexander Skarsgard.

Q: The Sookie books were successful before Alan Ball approached you. You’d even had a few offers to adapt them. Why did you say yes to him?

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Charlaine Harris says "An Ice Cold Grave " is her favorite book and the one she's most proud to have written

The question and answers were interesting from Toronto and she says "An Ice Cold Grave" #3 in the Harper  Connelly series is her favorite and the one she's most proud of the 30 books she's written.

   

True Blood Music Video of the Day : Eric, you´re UNBELIEVABLE!

Video Q & A with Charlaine Harris in Troronto from last weekend !

True Blood Season 4:Jessica and Hoyt's Strained Relationship Video ( HBO)

True Blood Season 4: Eric Receives a Visit From His Past Godric ! (Video ) HBO

True Blood S4 Ep 4 - what is the mystery behind all the books !

As Marnie says "Let's turn to the books.That's bound to reveal something."

Of course the episode's opening scene started the week before with Sookie sitting at the kitchen table reading  'Grave Secret' by Charlaine Harris.

Then just the right book of spells jumps off the shelf for Marnie.

Alcide comes home to find Debbie busy reading her Narcotics Anonymous book and talking " Rigorous honesty"

Then the big revelation of the Compton / Bellefleur family connection with the Bellfleur bible

I just liked seeing the stack of books beside Eric's bed in the "Hidey" he installed at Sookie's house

Finally we don't see a book in the scene but we do have the line from Belinda Mickens to Tommy about his news that he is learning to read "If we had a book, I'd make you read it to me."

Done-it-all Katherine Helmond sinks her teeth into role on 'True Blood'

It probably shouldn't have surprised us to see Katherine Helmond turn up in the ghastly precincts of HBO's True Blood this week.
After all, the grande dame of the small screen has done everything on TV but host Meet the Press.
She's guest-starred on shows from Mannix to The Glades. She's had recurring roles on series including Coach and Everybody Loves Raymond. In TV biopics, she's played everyone from Emily Dickinson to Hedda Hopper.
Helmond also has had long and memorable runs on hits such as Soap and Who's the Boss? Funny thing, though; even in ensemble comedies like those, it's inevitably her character who lingers most vividly in your head.

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