Talk Blood Radio: True Blood Season 4 Ep 4 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 4 "
I'm Alive and on Fire"

My co-host tonight will be Mark Blankenship from Huffington Post and NPR and Jefwithonef from Houston Post.  I'll take your calls  and we will 'meet our sponsor ' tonight by talking to tonight's episode sponsor,  who is also the wonderful Mark Blankenship.

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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

Special thanks to my longtim co-host,  Mark Blankenship for sponsoring tonight's episode - please visit his wonderful blog " The Critical Condition " where Mark reviews pop culture( movies, tv  and music etc ) year round !!

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About The Critical Condition Criticism to the Rescue!
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More than that, we believe criticism can rescue an otherwise boring day, just by getting us engaged with TV, movies, and music. So five days a week, professional critic Mark Blankenship digs into everything from classic cinema to trashy reality shows.
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True Blood Season 4 Crossword Puzzle - Episode 3 " If You Love Me, Why Am i Dyin'? "

If You Love Me, Why Am i Dyin

Thanks to Kristie !

Rise of Lafayette How Nelsan Ellis convinced ‘True Blood’ creator to save his character

Actor Nelsan Ellis, who plays Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s hit vampire series “True Blood,” remembers what he’d hear in meetings when he was a Juilliard graduate trying to land roles in Hollywood.
“Everybody kept saying, ‘I just don’t know how to sell you,’ ” he recalls. “I’m odd. I don’t think you can put a finger on me. I have some sex appeal, but I’m not the sexy dude. Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn’t look at me and go, ‘He’s a leading man.’ ”
Does it surprise anyone, then, that what would launch Ellis is a stereotype-busting role as a gay, muscular short order cook/prostitute/drug dealer who wears makeup and can beat up rednecks? Sitting at a sidewalk café on a busy street in Los Angeles, Ellis, dressed in a T-shirt and flat cap, explains how, in many ways, Lafayette is him.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/rise_of_lafayette_r7cflOsDZTTDregdTwM1MK#ixzz1SNEnQL40

Hello there Alcide - what to expect tonight on True Blood !

My friend Joe Manganiello, who portrays werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the hit HBO vampire series “True Blood” is enjoying his role, and so are his fans. Sherman Oaks reader Wendy Fujimori tells Canyon News, “I was shocked to see that Alcide had reunited with his former fiancé Debbie, and what a treat it is to see her all cleaned up and fighting her drug addiction. I hope that Joe and Alcide will be featured a lot more this season on ‘True Blood.’” Manganiello says of a recent fan experience, “This guy came up to me and said ‘Hey, can she take a picture sitting on your lap?’ and I said ‘It’s really not appropriate this is my fiancé sitting here, I really don’t think it’s appropriate,’ and he said ‘Dude, this is my wife.’ and it’s happened multiple times. I don’t know if it was like they have their freebie lists, like if you ever meet him you get the hall pass.”
Are you prepared for a spoiler alert? On Sunday night’s episode of “True Blood” titled “I’m Alive and on Fire” Alcide helps Sookie hunt for a missing and child-like Eric; Marnie searches for guidance to break the spell she cast on Eric; Bill discovers a surprising common bond with the Bellefleurs; Jason begs for liberation from Hotshot and the vicious were-panthers; Sam penetrates Luna’s inner circle; Arlene sees the writing on the wall when it comes to her new baby and Tommy returns to his roots when his parents show up to cause more trouble for him and for Sam.

http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/publish/On_the_Industry_1168/Tanna_Tommy_And_True_Blood_In_Hollywoodland.php

TB S4 Ep 4 Spoiler video : Eric invites Sookie to swin " Come play with me !"

"True Blood’ spoilers!: ‘If you kiss me, I promise to be happy.’

How long can “True Blood’s” Sookie (Anna Paquin) resist the sweeter, albeit amnesiac Eric (Alexander Skarsgard)?
In the episode “I’m Alive and On Fire,” Sookie can’t control Eric, who is drunk on fairy blood. She can’t even stop the playful vamp from pinching her butt. She soon loses him in the woods. With Alcide (Joe Manganiello) in wolf form, she finds him, hours later, in the sunlight, enjoying a naked dip in gator-filled waters.
If you remember, fairy blood allows vamps to walk in daylight - temporarily - and Eric turns to Sookie for comfort when he realizes he will never feel the sun again. He must be having some effect on her, because Sookie does what once would have been unthinkable: She lies to Bill (Stephen Moyer) to protect him.

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

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 pen and ink sketch of Sookie and Eric  ( Yes, as in the True Blood paper dolls and the art work is fangtastic! ) , Sookie, True Blood collectors poster ( one of a kind !) and various other gift certificates and other goodies from some of our sponsors! There are lots of prizes!

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

Thanks, Dallas

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True Blood Recipe of the week: Gran's ( Adele Stackhouse's) Pecan Pie (Sookie's Cryin')

I love True Blood / Sookie food mentions and have collected tons of  recipes for food mentioned in the show/series,  as well as great recipes from True Blood parties etc over the past 4 years of writing this blog.

You can see them all here
http://lovingtruebloodindallas.blogspot.com/search/label/recipes


This week's True Blood Recipe of the Week is: Gran's Pecan (Sookie's Cryin') Pie
 There are 2 recipes for it ....one the traditional Southern Pecan pie and one that is the more custardy one we see her eat in Season 1.

Gran's ( Adele Stackhouse's) Pecan Pie

Old Fashioned Pecan Pie

1/2 cup sugar
4 Tbs. butter (softened)
2 eggs beaten
2 Tbs. flour
1 cup dark cane syrup
1/4 Tsp. Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup chopped pecans
1 - 9" unbaked pie crust
1/2 cup pecan halves

Pre-heat oven to 375ºF. Beat together sugar and softened butter. Beat in (one ingredient at a time) eggs, flour, syrup, vanilla and salt. Fold in chopped pecans and pour into pie crust. Decorate top with pecan halves.

Bake 40 minutes on center rack until center of pie is firm.

True Blood Recipes: Gran's Pecan Pie or 'Crying pie' the True Blood version

The pie Sookie eats in True Blood is quite different from a Texas Pecan Pie or other southern pecan pie recipes because of it's creaminess, a reader suggest this recipe for the 'True Blood Cryin' pie'.
Pecan Cream Pie recipe
1 (9 inch) pie shell, baked

4 egg yolks
2 cups milk
2/3 cup white sugar
1/3 cup cornstarch
1 pinch salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup ground pecans

4 egg whites
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 tablespoons white sugar
1/4 cup ground pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In the top of a double boiler, combine yolks, milk, 2/3 cup sugar, cornstarch and salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Stir in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and 1 cup pecans. Pour filling into baked pie shell.
In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until foamy. Beat in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and gradually add 6 tablespoons white sugar, continuing to beat until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue over pie, covering completely. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup ground pecans.
Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes, or until meringue is delicately browned.

Charlaine Harris Can't Drive a Stake in 'True Blood'

I'm not sure why this is just now getting all this notice ..I think she confirmed this last February. If Ball stayed book- for- book with True Blood seasons this would give us 9 more after this season and Balls is acting like he's only doing 2 more. Who knows..

Don't worry, Trubies: Just because Charlaine Harris (who, as you should know, is the author of the novels that inspired True Blood, "The Southern Vampire Mysteries") has announced that she's going to quit writing her books after the 13th installment does NOT mean that True Blood the TV show will have to end. Ever.
That's because True Blood now has a life -- maybe "immortal existence" is a better way to put it -- all on its own. TB writers do pull key characters and plot points from the books, but that's where the similarities end ... in fact, the two versions are different enough so that instead of the usual purist/newbie divide you'd expect to see in a situation like this, you find quite a lot of people who are fans of both.

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True Blood Music Video of the Day : Bruises~ Sookie and Eric

Just thought everyone was warming up for this .. Ha!

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire will be adapted into a new graphic novel

Eww sounds good !

Yen Press, the graphic novel and manga imprint at Hachette, will adapt Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire into a new graphic novel with the same plot but a new point of view: the story will be told by Claudia, a child who is transformed into a vampire by Louis, the narrator of the original novel. Newcomer Ashley Marie Witter will illustrate the story, which will be published as a single volume in fall 2012.

Interview with the Vampire is the first book in Rice's 10-volume series The Vampire Chronicles, and Rice said she is "intrigued" by the idea of retelling her story from a different point of view. "I have gone all through The Vampire Chronicles writing from the point of view of different characters, so it is completely legitimate to do that," Rice said. "Lestat [another vampire] tells you a completely different version of events than Louis. Who do you believe?"

Yen Press has a history with vampires: its adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight was one of the bestselling graphic novels of 2010, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Rice grew up reading Classics Illustrated comics and horror comics like Tales from the Crypt. "I remember reading Jane Eyre in the Classics comics and how much I loved the details and seeing the madwoman in the attic in those little panels and seeing the whole novel play out," she said. "What always drew me were very detailed, representational drawings, rather than something abstract. I wanted to see a lot of richness and a lot of depth." Graphic novels, she said, "have a freedom that is all their own to create an entire universe in detail fairly inexpensively, compared to a film."

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True Blood’s Kristin Bauer on Eric’s Amnesia, Corsets, and Her Most Shocking Line This Season

As True Blood's Pam, Kristin Bauer's role has thus far been twofold: to spit out piquant lines, and to look fabulous while doing it. But this season, the unflappable vamp must channel her inner thug to fight a coven of witches, who've had the gall to mess with the only precious thing in Pam's life: her badass maker, Eric Northman. Vulture discussed all the True Blood basics (sex, savagery, Skarsgard) with the seasoned actress. Then we shamelessly pumped her for information on former co-stars Jerry Seinfeld and Charlie Sheen.

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Sirius XM Radio’s ‘Iconography’ Series to Feature Alan Ball

SiriusXM "Iconography" Series to Feature Academy® and Emmy®-Award Winning Writer/Producer/Director Alan Ball

--An intimate look at the life and body of work of one of the most prolific and creative forces in Hollywood and American culture --Companion special "The True Story of True Blood" offers listeners an unparalleled look inside the hit show

NEW YORK, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sirius XM Radio SIRI +3.56% today announced that Academy® and Emmy®-Award winning writer/producer/director Alan Ball will be the featured subject of the next installment of Iconography, the series that honors the life, career, and impact of iconic personalities on SiriusXM's 24/7 LGBT channel OutQ, ch.108.

Ball has redefined storytelling with his seminal film and television works -- including American Beauty, Six Feet Under and True Blood -- peeling back the layers of dysfunctional families and their secrets and creating characters and storylines that leave an indelible impression on audiences around the world.


OutQ is airing vignettes featuring Alan Ball through the month. Iconography: Alan Ball culminates with a one-hour in-depth interview conducted by OutQ hosts Derek Hartley and Romaine Patterson premiering July 23 at 1:00 pm ET on SiriusXM OutQ, ch.108. Encore presentations will air on OutQ on July 23 at 7:00 pm, July 24 at 12:00 pm and 7:00 pm, July 30 at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm and July 31 at 12:00 pm and 7:00 pm (all times ET).

Charlaine Harris is finishing up Sookie book 12 and heading to Toronto

Charlaine posts to her blog

This will be a very short blog, since I'm not thinking about much of anything but the next book these days. I'm trying to get it ready to send in to my editor by the end of this month, and that means I have to concentrate on what's at hand.
But I'll be seeing some of you next weekend at Polaris, the Toronto convention. I'll be staying over an extra day to have a signing at Indigo Books. It's been a long time since I went across the border, and I'm looking forward to it.

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Some books she reviews and recommends

• The Pack, Jason Starr
• The Desert of Souls, Howard Andrew Jones
• Naked City, edited by Ellen Datlow
• Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion
• Hounded: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Kevin Hearn

      

Joe " Alcide " Manganiello talks with Ryan Seacrest at Los Angeles radio station KISS.FM102.7

Kevin Alejandro discusses Lafayette and Jesus relationship

I can't get the video to stop auto-playing on the blog -so watch it here

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b252369_true_bloods_kevin_alejandro_talks_jesus.html

Have you seen Steve Newlin ?

Have you seen Steve ? He was last seen in Dallas ( Dallas looks around )

http://fellowshipofthesun.org/