Obama a fan of Louisiana Mysteries ?? " The Bayou Trilogy " on his vacation reading list !

The New York Times this morning ran an article entitled "Obama Summer Reading List Leans Toward Fiction " HERE and it talked about what books President Obama had taken with him on his vacation and I found his choice of  " The Bayou Trilogy " an interesting choice and wondered if he loves Louisiana based mysteries,  if he might be a fan of True Blood ? Or maybe Michelle is?  Ha!

Starred Review. Collected in a single volume for the first time, Woodrell's three stellar novels featuring Det. Rene Shade, an ex-boxer turned cop, provide entrée into the Louisiana swamp town of Saint Bruno, a place where "tempers went on the prowl and relief was driving a hard bargain." Woodrell (Winter's Bone) injects Shade's life and various cases with both humor and brutal violence. In Bright Lights (1986), the investigation into a city councilman's murder mushrooms into a corruption scandal, with Shade feeling pressure from above for a quick—and predetermined—result. Muscle for the Wing (1988) finds Shade up against a gang of ex-cons, hell-bent on wrestling control of Saint Bruno's less-than-legal action. Shade and his two brothers—bar owner Tip and district attorney Francois—are reunited with their long-absent paterfamilias, John X., in The Ones You Do (1992), in which John X. returns to Saint Bruno with a 10-year-old daughter and a killer on his trail. There's poetry in Woodrell's mayhem, each novel—and scene—full of gritty and memorable Cajun details.

True Blood Recipe of the week: Big Patty's 7 Layer Jello Pie

Let's flash back to Season 1 and Sookie & Sam's trip to the Big Patty's pie shop. The waitress,  Harley gave us a hilarious list of pies ...
Have a cool slice of this ...

Big Patty's 7 Layer Jello Pie

This is a fun, easy to make snack that everyone in the family will love.

To make, you will need:Four 6oz packages of Jello (I prefer red, green, yellow, and orange)13x9x2 pan or pyrex dish For white layers in between the colored layers:

2 packages of plain gelatin

Four 1/2 cup of cold water (one 1/2 cup for each pack of Jello)

2 cups of sour cream

2 cups of milk

4 cups hot water (one cup for each pack of Jello)

1 cup sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

To Make:

1) Dissolve your first color jello into 1 cup of boiling water, add 1/2 cup cold water, then pour into your dish.

2) Dissolve both envelopes of unflavored gelatin into a 1/2 cup of boiling water.

3) In a large saucepan brink milk to boil.

4) Remove pan of milk from heat and add sugar, mixing until dissolved.

5) Add the dissolved unflavored gelatin into the milk and sugar mix.

6) In a mixer, mix with sour cream and vanilla. Mix until even, then set aside to let cool.

7) Once the first layer is set, pour 1 1/2 cups of the white layer over the first layer of Jello.

8) Once the white layer sets and becomes sticky to touch, repeat step one with another layer of Jello.

9) Repeat steps 1 and 7 until you finish the fourth layer of Jello. Place into fridge and let chill for 2 hours.

10) Slice the Jello into 2 x 1 inch bars and enjoy!

** in other recipes you can also do this with 4 different flavors of jello too...

List of pies from Big Patty’s Pie shop
Recipe Index here

Fried Apple Pie
Frozen Hawaiian Pie
Chocolate Pecan Praline Pie
Chess Pie
7 Layer Jell-O Pie
Peanut Butter Pie
Spunky Hollow Honey Pineapple Pie
Texas Special Sawdust Pie

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

This is the last few weeks of the raffle - I will announce some winners on the big 2 hour finale after Ep 12 !
I have lots and lots of great prizes! I have one week available for a sponsor!


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

You can also sponsor an episode $50 , you can promote your business etc on the show and on the blog. Email me for more info.

I have a few episodes open I'd love to help you promote your business.

EW drops a Bill and Sookie scene hint

 Did we always have so many people screening TB episodes so late in the season ? what's upi with this ? I know everyone gets screener dvds of the first 3 eps but why do so many folks know whats the scenes will be in Ep9 ?

Any good Bill/Sookie scenes coming up? ~ Chris
All I can say is that you will like the scene near the beginning of Sunday’s episode very very much. Like, VERY much. And to bookend your joy, there’s a moment at the end where Sookie makes a grand gesture of — what some could say — are lingering feelings. Others might just say girl likes drama!

iCatcher! a podcast catcher app

Want something for you iPhone / iPad to help keep track of your podcasts ? The first one you'll want to set up will be your Talk Blood app. :-)

Description
The first podcast catcher that is supported on the iPad!
★★★Macworld AppGuide gave it 4.5 out of 5 mice!★★★

Features
+ Keep track of all of your podcast subscriptions
+ Download over WiFi, 3G or Edge and in the background (on supported devices)
+ Set schedules for when each one typically comes out
+ Search in all views to find that podcast or episode you are looking for.
+ Play audio in the background on supported iOS devices
+ Custom playlists that allow you to select podcasts and/or keywords to view your downloaded episodes.
+ Custom playlists now allow you to exclude podcasts.
+ All device orientations supported with configurable option in the settings.
+ Universal App, works on all of your iOS 4.0+ devices
+ Full retina display support
+ While in a playlist you can see the total time remaining and watch it count down while a podcast is playing.
+ You can unsubscribe to podcasts and still have them on your device. Use that for those less than stellar podcasts!
+ Now with full VoiceOver support
+ Support for Password Protected feeds
+ Support for continuous playback within custom playlists (on by default).

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True Blood Cookbook Apparently Arriving In 2012

Do you find yourself wanting to experience the mystical world of Bon Temps in your mouth, but dismayed by the expense of a bottle of True Blood ($6, including shipping)? Fear no more: according to Publishers Marketplace, via Eater, an True Blood cookbook could hit the shelves as soon as 2012. Unlike the Soprano's cookbook, this one will not be officially endorsed by HBO.
Apparently, the cookbook will feature recipes based on different characters' tastes: think "Sookie's Steamy Crawfish Etouffee" and "BIll's Bite Me Biscuits." Let's hope that, if the book includes blood recipes, it sticks to the style of King Russell's tasting menu... some of those carbonated and organic bloods sounded almost appetizing. And on the human side, Merlotte's provides plenty of possibilities. It's unclear whether or not a Facebook page entitled True Blood Cuisine: The Vampire Cookbook, which currently has five likes, has anything to do with the project

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Hoyt packs up Jessica's stuff - what is in the box ??

The paperback of Twilight (of course) , Urban Decay Black Palette makeup, Taylor Swift's Speak Now  cd, Tina Fey's new book, Bossy Pants

What else ?

The address
631 Point June St
Bon Temps 71347

???

      

True Blood - Episode 4.09 - "Run " Sneak Peek Videos

Ep. 45 Clip - Marcus Pays a Visit to Merlotte's

Ep. 45 Clip - Hoyt Gets a Visitor

Ep. 45 Clip - Jessica Unloads to Nan

Blood Work! "True Blood" Recap 4.8: The Lyin', the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Brian and Andy joined me last Sunday night on Talk Blood Radio - we had lots of fun!

True Blood’s Jim Parrack on His Character’s Dark Side, Working With James Franco, and Riding Jason Stackhouse

Did Hoyt Fortenberry and Jessica Hamby just break up — again? As the warm-blooded half of what was the most stable human-vampire relationship on True Blood, Hoyt’s the “normal” character in the show: He’s not a bloodsucker, shape-shifter, werewolf, werepanther, fairy, witch, medium, spirit, etc. But trying to live a simple life in Bon Temps has its own share of drama, as Jim Parrack, who plays Hoyt, can attest. We spoke with the actor about what's next for his character, his dream-sequence sex scene with Ryan Kwanten, and the movie he shot with his real-life best friend, James Franco.
Did you have any inkling that Hoyt and Jessica were headed for all this domestic trouble?
The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you’re nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife. Then again, I wasn’t facing issues like, “My mother is trying to kill my girlfriend.” [Laughs.] Now Hoyt and Jessica’s issues are more like, “I’m hungry. Where’s my food?”

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Taylor Swift Will Soundtrack Next 'True Blood' Episode (video)

This will be the Jason & Jessica in the back of the truck ?- don't ya think ?

Singer's 'Haunted' will play during a 'racy, sexy scene

In a shift away from the rock and blues sounds that normally soundtrack the Louisiana-based show, True Blood music supervisor Gary Calamar confirms to Rolling Stone that this Sunday's episode will feature Taylor Swift's "Haunted."
Calamar declined to reveal which scene the string-heavy track from Swift's Speak Now will play under, but described it as "a racy, sexy scene" and asked which character we thought would be most likely to listen to Swift. "After last week's episode, Jessica and Jason," we replied. "I'm going to leave it right there," Calamar said, adding it was the episode's writer who came up with the idea to use Swift's song. After Swift's camp initially refused to allow it, the singer came forward and said she wanted it to happen.

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Funny Clips from True Blood ( video)

Beyond 'Twilight': Vampires Around the World

It seems that vampires are everywhere, from Harry Potter to True Blood, Twilight to the new Fright Night movie.
Everybody knows more or less what vampires are like: Handsome, brooding, tortured humans who crave blood and have a variety of strange abilities (such as turning into bats or not casting reflections) and weaknesses (such as being killed by sunlight or stakes to the heart).
Of course there are many variation of the vampire story; it's been retold and repackaged thousands of times since Bram Stoker's 1897 classic "Dracula."
But that's only part of the story -- and arguably not even the most interesting part.

In the West, when most people think of vampires, either historical (such as, supposedly, Romanian prince Vlad Tepes) or literary (creations by Stoker, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer, etc.), the vampire they are familiar with has Slavic origins.

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Did fascination with vampire books and True Blood influence the Texas "vampire" ?

I've been ignoring this story becasue its unsettling,  but when True Blood and vampire books get blamed - we need to know about it.

The arrest of a Texas man who broke into a woman's house, threw her against a wall and tried to suck her blood over the weekend has sparked discussion over the impact of vampire books and movies on U.S. youth culture.

Whether pop culture played a role in the attack remains to be seen, as 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley awaits a psychiatric evaluation in jail on burglary charges in Galveston, Texas, southeast of Houston.
Found growling and hissing in a parking lot and wearing only boxer shorts, the pierced and tattooed Bensley claimed he was a 500-year-old vampire who needed to "feed," Galveston Police Capt. Jeff Heyse said.
Vampires have been a focal point of literature since Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula". But fascination, particularly among young people, has peaked in recent years with the popularity of the "Twilight" books about teenage vampires and the HBO series, "True Blood."
"I think the vampire is a metaphor for the outsider and the predator in all of us," said author Anne Rice, whose Vampire Chronicles series has captured the imaginations of horror fans since the 1970s.
"We're all conscious at times of being alone, of being alienated, of being a secret self that fears exposure to the judgments of others. So we feel like vampires," she told Reuters.
Bensley is now being held in the Galveston County Jail on a $40,000 bond for home burglary with intent to commit a felony.
The woman, who lived about two miles from Bensley and did not know him, escaped the attack unharmed, Heyse said.
Kevin Petroff, chief of the Galveston County District Attorney's office, told Reuters no defense attorney has been appointed to date, and if Bensley had hired a lawyer privately, no notice had been filed.
YOUTHFUL FOR ETERNITY
Dr. Thomas Garza, who teaches a course in vampire lore at the University of Texas, said young people might aspire to be like vampires because they cheat death and are able to stay beautiful, powerful, and youthful for eternity.
The modern vampire in popular culture is more attractive, suave, and fashionably dressed than the Old World Slavic vampires, adding to the resurgence of their appeal, he added.
"I would say that it is the Twilight saga in particular that has brought out the younger teen fans. In that connection, Edward is a very 'safe' vampire, a kind of 'starter vamp' for beginners, if you will," Garza said.
"He's pretty, yes, so the seduction's there, but he's more than reluctant to act on his and Bella's sexual desires. He can go out in daylight - and even 'sparkles' in the sun, giving him a completely non-threatening character. He drives a Volvo, for goodness sake."

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"On The Infamous Shower Scene ( or Snow Sex!) Alexander Skarsgard says " he loved it!

“I loved it. It was so beautiful, they tried to recreate a winter landscape up in northern Sweden, and they did an amazing job. It was really special. It was a lot of fun shooting – and quite complicated with wind machines going and fake snow everywhere. It was very technical and kinda tough, but it really was very special. They spent weeks building it, and we spent a day or two shooting it. I’m excited to see it because being there on the day it looked so good. I hope fans like it.

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True Blood S4 Episode 9 " Run New Spoiler description and photos

The unbridled fantasy outdoes itself with tonight's thrilling story. Bill (Stephen Moyer) tends to a delirious Sookie (Anna Paquin), who, in a fever-dream sequence, imagines having a three-way with him and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard)! "I can love both of you," she says. Meanwhile, possessed witch Marnie (Fiona Shaw) lets loose a diabolical plan to defeat all vampires. And don't miss the riveting final moments. (HBO, 9 p.m.)

True Blood Spoiler Video from Comic -con updated !! ( Video)