True Blood Music Video of the Day: Salvation - True Blood Couples of Season 3

Salvation - True Blood Couples of Season 3
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True Blood Music Episode 12 Finale

10 big questions before the 'True Blood' season 3 finale: Will Tara avenge Eggs death? Has Jason found true panther love? Will Eric really sacrifice himself? And, just how dumb is Sookie?

 Season three has been a whirlwind of one outrageous moment to another.  There's been more blood, more nudity and more drama than arguably the first two season combined (although sadly, zero Michelle Forbes for obvious reasons). With the season finale fast approaching, here are 10 big questions we're hoping to have answered well, at least partially after "Evil is Going On" airs this Sunday, Sept. 12.

see 10 questions here

True Blood invades Boston

One thing we learned at the “True Blood’’ party at the Estate on Saturday night: Friends of Sookie Stackhouse love Boston. Or, more accurately, they don’t hate Boston. “I like Boston,’’ said “True Blood’’ cast member Rutina Wesley, who was a celebrity guest at RCN’s “True Blood’’ event in Boston for the second year in a row. “Boston’s not bad. And I’m a New Yorker, but Boston’s not bad.’’ The almost 300 fans who attended the party screamed for Wesley (who plays Sookie’s pal Tara Thornton on the show) as she danced onstage in front of the DJ. They screamed even louder when season-three newcomer Joe Manganiello walked out to greet them (above). “I love the turnout. I mean, I was a huge fan of the show, so to see all the other people who are excited about it, I identify,’’ said Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux. When we interviewed Manganiello by phone last week before his arrival in Boston, he confessed his love of Kelly’s Roast Beef’s lobster rolls. Apparently, his Boston handlers read that in the Globe and surprised Manganiello by taking him for a Kelly’s run once he got to town. Manganiello — who brought his model girlfriend Audra Marie to the party — said his autographed picture is now on the wall at Kelly’s and at the Kowloon in Saugus. “If we could find a Dunkin’ Donuts that would put my picture up on the wall, I’d be happy,’’ he said, adding that it didn’t matter which one, as long as it’s “anywhere where blueberry coffee is served.’’ Manganiello was raised in Pittsburgh, but his parents are from the Boston area.

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2010/09/06/werewolf_whistles_for_true_blood_star/

True Blood Crossword Puzzle : Ep 3.09 "Everything is Broken"

Everything is Broken s3e9

True Blood Crossword Puzzle :Living Dead in Dallas book

Living Dead in Dallas

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Lady Gaga - Beautiful Dirty Rich

Lady Gaga - Beautiful Dirty Rich
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Crimes by Moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris now in e-book

From Women of Mystery Blog

You may recall that I am fortunate enough to have a short story published in the MWA anthology, Crimes by Moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris. The hard cover edition was released by Berkley Prime Crime last April. I bragged about it here.

A few people have asked me if Crimes by Moonlight is available as an e-book. I always say, “I don’t know. Haven’t seen it as such.” Well, now I do know. Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble are now carrying e-book editions. So, if you are inclined to e-readers, now’s the time.

Of course, if you want the paperback edition to carry on the subway or to the beach, you still have to wait until next spring.

Terrie

'True' love: NY Post pick this season’s steamiest sex scenes

Sunday night is for lovers. It’s a night for resting from the weekend that was and preparing for the week ahead. Sometimes that means Chinese takeout followed by an episode of “Drop Dead Diva.” Other times, it’s something kinkier. Less nightie, more naked. If you haven’t guessed, I’m talking about “True Blood.”
It airs, appropriately, on Sunday nights, and on this show, the philosophy is the more certainly the merrier — especially when it
comes to sex. Luckily for me (and other single 30-somethings), we had Bill, Eric, Sam and Sookie (not to mention lesbian lady lover Pam and feisty Latin fangbanger Talbot) to spice up our summer Sundays.
“True Blood” was my summer fling. And a good one at that.
With the addition of werewolves and more shifters, there was a hell of a lot more skin exposure. Plus, from revenge sex to makeup-sex and everything in between, it was just an overall blush-worthy season.
Here, in no particular order, are The Post’s picks for the six sexiest scenes. Turn down the lights.
Episode 1
Eric in the basement of Fangtasia
The season started with a bang when Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) walked in on Eric Northam (Alexander Skarsgard) having torrid sex. “He’s indisposed at the moment,” Pam (Kristin Bauer) says to Sookie, who ignores her to find the Nordic blondie copulating with one of his new dancers, who’s standing upright, naked and bound at the wrists. “See anything you like?” asks Eric, teasing Sookie with his ripped, sweat-soaked body. “Is Bill’s stamina not up to snuff?”
The sexual tension between the two of them is palpable. Just do it already, will you?

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/true_love_hL7Fk9J7yCBbJuYLh2DZoN#ixzz0yfK26jXL

True Blood panel at Dragon is introduced

here's how the TB folk were received by Dragoncon

True Blood Crossword " Dead to the World " Bk /Season 4

A little something to do by the pool today .....thanks Kristie

Dead to the World

Anne Rice asks: “True Blood fans: Do you think the ancient immortals really demonstrate enough wisdom to be credible?

I think Ms Rice and the blogger are forgetting how Godric was portrayed in True Blood or maybe even The Ancient Pythoness ?? What do you guys think ?

Anyone that follows legendary vampire author Anne Rice on Facebook knows that she is quite the fan of True Blood and often voices her opinions on the show. Not too long ago she asked her fans a question on the vampires of True Blood, a question that got me thinking.

“True Blood fans: Do you think the ancient immortals really demonstrate enough wisdom to be credible? We have yet to meet a philosophical vampire, am I right?”

read on 

5 Reasons to Get Excited for 'The Vampire Diaries' Season 2

If you were at all worried about The Vampire Diaries having a sophomore slump, your fears can go away. I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the season 2 premiere, "The Return," and it is The Vampire Diaries at its best.

I'm not going to give away any major spoilers, and trust me, there are some big ones coming. Perhaps my favorite part of The Vampire Diaries is that every episode has major, game-changing events, and the season 2 premiere is no exception.

However, to get you excited before the premiere this Thursday at 8pm on the CW, here are five great things to look for.

Damon's Moment of Realization

At the end of last season Damon kissed Katherine, though he thought he was kissing Elena. In the premiere Damon has a moment where he realizes the he fell victim to "doppelganger hijinks," and the moment alone is worth the price of admission and proof that Ian Somerhalder is giving the performance of his career on this show.

Nina Dobrev as Katherine

I typically find Elena to be one of the more boring parts of The Vampire Diaries, but now that star Nina Dobrev gets to have some fun by playing Elena and Katherine, we get to see just how great she can be. Much like Somerhalder does with Damon, Dobrev sinks her teeth into the role of Katherine and makes me hope that she'll be around for a long, long time.

read on

True Blood Music Video of the Day:( I Need ) Fresh Blood (Eels)

( I Need ) Fresh Blood (Eels) : Eric & Sookie True Blood by EricTheSheriff

True Blood's Jesus is a Brujo !

thanks marquest

This is the new HBO t shirt for Jesus - I would suggest reading carefully especially about the glamouring and shapeshifting. I think this is where this is going for season 4 ...

From Wikipedia 

Brujería is the Spanish word for witchcraft. Brujeria also refers to a mystical sect of male witches in the southernmost part of Argentina. Both men and women can be witches, brujos and brujas respectively. Brujos is the plural term that can mean either a group of male witches or both male and female witches.

 Etymology

There is no sound etymology for this word, which appears only in Portuguese, Galician and Spanish (other romance languages use words derived from Latin strix, -igis, originally an owl or bird of evil omen).

Cultural variants & history

The brujería of Hispanophone America is a combination of Spanish and the indigenous people of those regions (predominantly Mesoamerican and other South American indigenous regions), so it is heavily influenced by ancient paganism.
Further south of that region, brujería is diverse, from a similar mix of indigenous and Spanish culture, to the European styles found in Argentina and Uruguay. In these latter countries, brujería often takes on Christian, specifically Catholic, influences.
However, the term bruja/o has just as many negative connotations as does its English counterpart 'witch'. To refer to somebody as a bruja/o is often to label them an 'evil doer'. So most South Americans of European descent refrain from using it in reference to themselves. Some of these people have adopted the term curandero (shaman), a family reference, or simply no term at all. In Spain and European descendant South Americans, the witch is considered by many to be fictional. In contrast, brujos from Central America or the north of South America are usually respected members of the community. They are sought for their powers of healing, divination and spellwork, and can often be found selling amulets and such curios openly on the street.
Curanderismo is also a practice that is totally distinctive from witchcraft, in that they do not use spells or divination but rather, work as psycho-spiritual healers doing such things as soul retrievals.
The brujos from Spain are either Christian or pagan-witches. The first group use folk magic and combine it with Catholic ritual and beliefs. This group includes priests and nuns. This group usually informs the person that they are performing a hex or, that they are responsible for the consequences of said spell. The latter group are not Christian and either practice secretly or veil their practices under Catholic ones. Non-Christian brujería from Spain is predominantly influenced by the ancients, either Greco-Roman, Celtic, Phoenician or a combination. This latter group does not tend to use folk magic, but instead practices what is commonly known to English people as traditional witchcraft.
With the large Hispanic emigration into North America, brujería has naturally gone there as well. The brujos of America are either traditionalists, combine brujería with vudú, or have reconstructed a modern style where one does not have to be of Spanish descent.
So essentially there are three distinct forms: ancient pre-Christian form, Christian or modern form, and a contemporary reconstruction.

Beliefs and practices

Beliefs vary between traditional and modern brujos. Traditional brujos hold core beliefs that are similar to or identical to the witchery around the world. Modern brujos are diverse and can resemble faith healers, be shamanic, spiritualists, or pagan.
Practices are greatly diverse and are dependent upon the locale and the form of brujería. Ancient forms tend to reflect the religions of the indigenous cultures, whilst modern forms tend to be syncretic and use the current dominant religion (usually Catholic).
The most well known practices are similar to English witchcraft: spells (hechizos), charms, amulets, divination, and use of plants (usually herbs). Other practices might include phenomena similar with traditional English witchcraft; namely shapeshifting, glamoury and hedgeriding of the hedgewitch, including use of entheogens. Brujos paganos (pagan-witches) might participate in ritual or ceremonial ecstacies.
Among certain Hispanic and Native American cultures of the Southwest, the practice of brujería is feared as a manifestation of evil. Those who use rituals, spells, incantations, potions, and powders to work ill against others are known as brujas (witches), who are primarily female in number (the male witch is known as a brujo). All the negative facets of witchcraft feared by people throughout the world are practiced by the brujas: manifesting the evil eye, casting spells to cause physical or mental illness, bringing about bad luck, even death. The brujas create dolls in which they insert bits of the victim's hair, fingernail clippings, or pieces of clothing and focus their evil intent upon the miniature representative of the person to be cursed. If an Anglo doctor with modern medical techniques cannot cure someone who has fallen suddenly ill, a bruja is suspected as being the cause of the problem.
Brujas are also thought to be accomplished shapeshifters, possessing the supernatural ability to transform themselves into owls, coyotes, or cats. In the form of an animal, they may spy upon potential victims and may even administer a potion into their unsuspecting quarry's food or water or hide a bad-luck charm on his or her premises. There are certain amulets or rituals that offer some protection from the brujas, but the only sure way to rid oneself of their evil deeds is to employ the services of a curandero. Sometimes the curandero is able to contact the bruja through supernatural means and demand that the curse or spell be removed. In more severe cases, the curandero may have to direct a spell toward the bruja and defeat her on the spiritual level in order to force her to remove the evil directed toward the victim.

Some of the cast of True Blood made their way to Dragon*Con 2010

Some of the cast of True Blood made their way to Dragon*Con 2010 to chat about their characters on the show and a little bit about the season finale.
“There’ll be blood,” said Nelsan Ellis who plays Lafayette jokingly on the panel that also featured Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte) and Kristin Bauer (Pam). “You will definitely find something out about my dude [Jesus].”
Ellis spoke about how he wasn’t crazy about the idea of Lafayette having a serious love interest, but said he changed his mind upon seeing the episodes because it showed whole new “tender” dimension to the character.
In reference to the finale, Trammell mentioned something about “death,” but quickly retracted the statement and changed the topic to the subject of nudity on set. He couldn’t recall whether his character is naked in the season 3 finale episode and as anyone who watches the show knows, it tends to happen often.

Trammell also told the crowd that his grandfather owned the land in the field he ran naked through from a previous episode.
In response to a fan who asked why Pam, who has managed to stay clothed during the entire run of True Blood, has all the best lines, Bauer said she couldn’t take all the credit since she and the other castmates don’t have much creative input.
“I’m not privy to what the writer and producers think, but apparently Pam in the books just gets… more important,” Bauer said.
The True Blood season 3 finale airs September 12 on HBO.

http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/09/03/dragoncon-2010-true-blood-panel-feat-sam-trammell-nelsan-ellis-and-kristin-bauer/

Go Ask Dallas : What was that ring tone that Eric phone was playing in the last True Bood episode?

Dear Dallas


What was that ring tone that Eric phone was playing it was Classic =)


Thanks Marquest

Well, Marquest it was "Ain't We Got Fun"Maybe Eric know  these guys in the 20s . Remember in the books how vampires love to buy cds of old music. Wikipedia describes it like this:

"Ain't We Got Fun?" is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn.

It was first performed in 1920 in the revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville and recordings. "Ain't We Got Fun?" and both its jaunty response to poverty and its promise of fun "Every morning / Every evening", and "In the meantime, / In between time" have become symbolic of the Roaring Twenties, and it appears in some of the major literature of the decade, including The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in Dorothy Parker's award-winning short story of 1929, "Big Blonde".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_We_Got_Fun%3F 

This is the chorus you are probably familiar with
Ain't We Got Fun by Peggy Lee

Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening
Ain't we got fun?
Not much money, Oh, but honey
Ain't we got fun?
The rent's unpaid dear
We haven't a bus
But smiles were made dear
For people like us

In the winter in the Summer
Don't we have fun
Times are bum and getting bummer
Still we have fun
There's nothing surer
The rich get rich and the poor get children
In the meantime, in between time
Ain't we got fun?