We had been getting curious -- maybe even excited -- about True Blood, the Louisiana-set vampire drama from Alan Ball and HBO that premieres this fall. We're pining for something langorous and Gothic-y these days. Not sure why... Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's that with the Emmys we were reminded of how much we miss Damages. Anyhow. Notice that we used the "past tense" there. Because we're starting to find the whole Tru Blood / Blood Copy / yada yada web and print campaign a little exhausting. Sure, we get that they've gotta establish that the vampires of True Blood live in a world where they can choose between drinking human blood and a synthetic blood replacement beverage, and what does that do to vampires and the world, etc., etc. That sounds great. What sounds crap, however, is the possibility that True Blood will swerve as wildly between the crass, crummy commercials and fake-news-clips in rotation on HBO and the stilted, over-written vids of this viral campaign. Click through for a few examples after the jump.
Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.
Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.
Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.
Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.
Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.
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