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Inside True Blood Blog Michael McMillian talks about returning as Steve Newlin to
True Blood.
“It seems really clear to me that Steve was always just as attracted to Jason as his wife was,” McMillian says. “In his eyes, Jason Stackhouse is the guy that Steve really wanted to be. I think he had a really heavy man-crush on him … that might have gone a bit deeper. And I think Steve is more heartbroken that Jason slept with Sarah than he is that Sarah slept with Jason, if you know what I mean. I have my own theories and ideas of what Steve’s been up to off-screen – and I’m sure the fans do, too – and I’m sure the writers will fill that in. But I think the fact that he’s coming back for Jason is linked to that emotional undercurrent he was feeling in Season 2. I have no idea where the show is headed, but it’s great to be back, even just for a few hours on set.”
Monday, September 12, 2011
Steve Newlin returns to True Blood with fangs !
Loving True Blood Blog and Talk Blood Radio show/ podcast raffle and fundraiser - last day!
This is the last day of the raffle --Remember I have lots and lots of great prizes!
Prizes start going out later this week.
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, collector's t-shirts, soundtrack CDs, 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!
TONS OF PRIZES!!
But best of all you know you helped keep your favorite True Blood Blog or radio show going for another year!
Thanks, Dallas
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ESQLee who want's to dedicates tonight's episode to Charlaine Harris and the Sookie Stackhouse series. ( ep 8)Betty Crocker Releases ‘True Blood’ Inspired Cocktail & More for Fall TV!
Attention, Truebies!
It’s True Blood‘s season finale is finally here and recipe wiz Betty Crocker has created the prefect nightcap! This cocktail is only one of the many delicious concoctions from Fanfare, Betty Crocker’s newest collection of recipes inspired by popular TV shows. Curl up on the couch with a blood-red sangria martini (after all, “sangria” means “bleeding” in Spanish!) and tune into True Blood tonight! Check out the recipe after the jump!
Recipe: Blood-Red Sangria Cocktail
INGREDIENTS
Sangria Simple Syrup
1 cup sugar
1 cup red wine, such as Merlot or Zinfandel
1 cup dark sweet cherries, stemmed, pitted, and halved
1 stick cinnamon
Sangria Martini Cocktail
Ice cubes
3 tablespoons (1 1/2 oz) citron (citrus) vodka
2 tablespoons (1 oz) clear orange-flavored liqueur
2 tablespoons (1 oz) sangria simple syrup, chilled (above)
1 dark sweet cherry on a cocktail pick
DIRECTIONS
STEP 1
To make simple syrup, in 1 1/2-quart saucepan, mix sangria simple syrup ingredients.
Heat to boiling over medium heat.
Simmer 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat; let cool 30 minutes.
Strain mixture through fine mesh strainer; discard solids.
Cover and chill sangria syrup until ready to use. Makes about 1 1/2 cups.
STEP 2
To make cocktail, fill cocktail shaker with ice.
Add vodka and orange liqueur to cocktail shaker; cover and shake.
Strain into martini glass.
Drizzle sangria syrup into cocktail in glass.
Garnish with cherry.
BETTY CROCKER EXPERT TIP
Use a vegetable peeler to remove strips of orange peel. Be sure to remove only the orange part of the peel; the white part, called pith, is bitter.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Talk Blood Radio: True Blood Season 4 Finale 2 hour LIVE Talk show TONIGHT 9:30 pm join us !
Live TONIGHT: Come and 'Talk Blood' right after the True Blood episodes airs. We will be discussing True Blood Season 4 Episode 4.12 "And When I die"this is the big finale episode and our annual 2 hour live radio show. It will be amazing and you'll want to join us to call in or chat about it, I'm sure !
Hands down this is the best True Blood team of reviewers there is!
I will be joined tonight by all of my co-hosts this season:
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 . You can call -in by dialing 1 (646) 929-0825
I'll be taking your calls!
Be sure to join us tonight because we're going to talk True Blood on Talk Blood Radio live on Blog Talk Radio. Please buy a raffle ticket to win great prizes and support the show!
** We will be mailing out lots of prizes starting next week --please buy a raffle ticket to be eligible !!
Caroline Holliday Bellefleur's Chocolate Cake as told to Charlaine Harris recipe from Sookie Stackhouse companion book
You will love this book soo much. Betcha you didn't expect the dates!
Caroline Holliday Bellefleur's Chocolate Cake
Time: 2 hours, Serves 12
1 package Swansdown Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix (or Duncan Hines, if you can't find Swansdown anymore)
1 package (8 oz.) seedless dates
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups confectioners' sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
3 Tbsp. shortening
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 Tbsp. brewed coffee
1 cups chopped pecans
1. Mix the cake mix and bake in a greased 9x13 glass pan, following the box directions.
2. Cook the dates, water and sugar in a double boiler for 30-40 minutes. Spread on top of cooled cake.
3. While the date mixture is cooling on the cake, mix together the confectioners' sugar, salt, shortening, vanilla, coffee and pecans. Spread on top of the cake. Sometimes I use pecan halves to create a pattern to make it look prettier.
- From Caroline Bellefleur, as told to Charlaine Harris
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True Blood’s Kristin Bauer on Next Season and Pre-Vampire Pam: a Victorian-Era Hooker, Perhaps?
Bauer did offer up one nugget about next season: “Alan [Ball] said that I would get my flashback, my making, you know, when Eric made me.” And she’s already creating scenarios for what that may be like. “I’m imagining; it’s all in my head, a combination of the books and other things that I’m putting together. Each vampire gets that flashback, and so I’m picturing little snippets. Like, there was a line: ‘I’m not a hooker,’ that was a long time ago. So I’m like, okay, maybe she’s a hooker. And then it would be, like, the Victorian era, so I’m picturing a Victorian-era hooker. And then I have this other thing where Eric saves Pam, so I’ve got some alley, hooker, Victorian costume,” she laughed.
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Alexander Skarsgård: Interview with a vampire
We are sitting in a spiffy bistro, just off the Bowery in New York's NoHo, and the incongruous presence of a celebrity vampire – Skarsgård's profile in the US rests largely on his role in HBO's lusty drama True Blood – is creating ripples of interest. At 6ft4in and shamelessly handsome, it's hard to ignore him. A young girl interrupts to ask his name. "Alex," he replies, "What's yours?" "Emma," she says, before racing off to confirm to her mother that, yes – it is the man from True Blood. A waiter approaches to congratulate him on the latest episode, before recommending the potato pizza with truffle oil and fontina cheese, a house speciality. We order one between us. There has to be wine, too, though Skarsgård agonises momentarily. "I got here two weeks ago, and I haven't been sober one day since," he says. "It's not like I'm wasted, but every single night there's been something. In LA you have to plan, like, 'All right, next Saturday, let's get drunk and let's not drive – we'll arrange a car.' In Stockholm or New York you go out, you have a late lunch, you end up ordering a bottle of wine, and someone shows up, you order another. I love that, just the flow of it."
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
‘I’m a Vampire!’: Watch Vulture’s True Blood Self-Identification Supercut
True Blood's plotlines are often convoluted, its acting sometimes histrionic, and its pacing can be a bit off. But there's one thing the show positively excels at: constantly reminding viewers who everyone is. How could we possibly keep all the witches, brujos, mediums, fairies, vampires, werewolves, werepanthers, shape-shifters, and their various non-mythical associates straight without everyone constantly restating, "I'm a _____" like some kind of verbal name tag? True Blood's fourth season finale is on Sunday, which means all this absurd, wonderful overexplanation is about to vanish, just like every single one of Tara's interesting story lines. But for now, here's one more reminder of who's who.
True Blood Recipe of the week: Quinn's Famous Bacon Sandwich
John Quinn's Bacon Sandwich
INGREDIENTS:
4 slices bacon
2 slices wheat bread/ white bread or sliced french bread
1 Tbsp mayonnaise / mustard
Lettuce
2-3 slices ripe tomato
Salt & pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS: Cook bacon until crisp then drain on paper towels. Toast the bread. Spread mayonnaise on both slices bread then add bacon, tomato & lettuce. Slice at a diagonal & serve.
SERVINGS: 1
TIME: 10 minutes
SERVING TIPS: Add what you want, such as sliced avocado, Swiss cheese.
Quinn makes Sookie and Amelia (and Bob!) bacon sandwiches in Book 7, All Together Dead.
Bob ignored his kibble in favor of watching Quinn fry bacon, and I was slicing tomatoes.
I’d gotten out the cheese and the mayonnaise and the mustard and the pickles, anything I could imagine a man might want on a bacon sandwich.
True Blood Season 4 Crossword Puzzle - Episode 11 " Soul of Fire"
Just what you want today --a great new crossword from the TB Crossword Guru, the amazing Kristie.
Soul of Fire
Friday, September 9, 2011
Everyone ( Kevin, Nelsan and Carrie) talk about the finale and the cliff hanger ....
But True Blood always ends its seasons with big cliffhangers! “No,” said Ellis gravely. “This year, it’s on a different scale. When we all read the script, we were like, ‘What?!’ The cliffhangers take it to another level.” Are we getting something akin to the first season finale, where we thought that Lafayette had perished in the final minutes? “I can’t give it away, but something like that, except, I can’t say, but something really big on that level is going to happen.” He laughed. “You’ll see, and it’ll throw you for a loop, and then you all will have to wait for eight months!”
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Carrie " Arlene" Preston
Insider: This Sunday brings the season four finale, what can you tease?
Carrie: The finale has one of our biggest cliffhangers ever. Honestly, this show just gets crazier and crazier each season! This year, a dark shadow from Terry’s past will show its face. And the finale opens a door but I don’t know what’s beyond it. Bottom line, there’s never a moment where Arlene can relax. Just when you think everything is OK, something’s lurking around the corner – but that’s what is so great with our show.
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True Blood Dallas Raffle-- LAST 3 days !!!
This is the last 3 days of the raffle - I will be announcing a few winners on the big 2 hour finale party on Talk Blood Radio Sunday night right after Ep 12 !
I have lots and lots of great prizes!
We just received a Sookie Companion book for a prize and there are LOTS and LOTS of others just waiting to be won!!
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, collector's t-shirts, soundtrack CDs, 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!
TONS OF PRIZES!!
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
Thirteen Things We Learned From Alan Ball at the Opera House
1. Alan Ball wanted originally to be an actor. However, he and his friends were never cast in the college productions to which they aspired, leading him to writing, which he realised (in his second year at college) was what he wanted to do. I think I can speak for everyone in attendance last night when I say, thank God he couldn't act.
2. One of his first writing jobs was for a sitcom called Oh, Grow Up, which involved a talking dog whose thoughts were communicated via subtitles. The idea was universally hated. Sound familiar, Mike Mills? The talking dog went on to become something of a conversational motif throughout the evening, ensuring many a laugh was had.
3. Death obviously featured prominently throughout the evening. When asked how he'd like to go, Ball replied that he would like to have his cremated ashes stuffed inside said talking dog. Again, many laughs.
4. When HBO first came to Ball with the proposal for Six Feet Under during his time at the critically-panned sitcom, he instantly clicked with the concept of a 'family living in a funeral home' but couldn't commit at the time. Having been confronted with death head on very early on in life, Ball immediately identified with the horrible (I think he said 'fucked up') suppression of grief and emotion experienced in funeral homes, his own mother having been whisked off behind a curtain at the first visible sign of her grieving at her daughter's funeral. His own experiences with his sister's death and her subsequent showing in an open casket would later go on to inform his time writing at Six Feet Under.
5. Again, when first optioned by HBO, Ball was still attached to Oh, Grow Up. When ABC 'graciously' cancelled the flailing sitcom, Ball was free to resume writing the pilot for Six Feet Under so that when HBO got back to him, they asked him to 'make it more fucked up.' So he did. Everyone liked that bit.
6. The final scene from Six Feet Under makes everyone cry. Even if you haven't seen any of the episodes leading up to it. Also, Wil is friends with Sia Furler and cried his eyes out when he watched it alone in a hotel room. Everyone agreed.
7. The plastic bag moment from American Beauty actually happened to Ball in real life. Ball was walking back from Sunday brunch through an empty World Trade Centre Plaza one day, and this bag was, like, dancing with him. Like a little kid begging him to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day he knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted him to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
8. In another instance of art being inspired by life, the genius dialogue in American Beauty between Angela and Jane ("You total slut, you have a crush on him. You're defending him, you love him, you wanna have, like, ten thousand of his babies.") was inspired by an incident at a U2 concert when a teenage girl got up in front of Ball and screamed "I love you Edge, I wanna have, like, ten thousand of your babies!"
9. Ball first encountered Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels when he arrived thirty minutes early to the dentist one day, not knowing how to time the distance between his house and the surgery in spite of his having lived in Los Angeles for fifteen years. Thank you, LA traffic, for your fortuitous inefficiency.
10. Australian (and presumeably other international) actors have less hang-ups about nudity on-screen than their American counterparts. Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer started hooking up by the second episode of season one of True Blood! But apparently they aren't together anymore, which was news to me. That doesn't matter, though, because they are 'consummate professionals.' Although apparently things can get a bit weird now that their characters have started hooking up with other characters on-screen. Including Alexander Skarsgård, who Wil would turn for, repeatedly. Again, everyone agreed.
11. When asked how he writes powerful female characters, like Sookie Stackhouse, Ball revealed that he has 'a big girl inside of me' that enables him to do so.
13. When asked for some encouraging words that an English teacher might pass onto her students to inspire them creatively, Ball quoted a Buddhist aphorism to 'follow your bliss,' which basically translated to 'do what makes you happy.' So Zen. So true.
In Honor of True Blood's Season Finale, We Made You a Printable, Life-Size Eric Northman Poster
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