There is always a war… Down in San Bruno, Californiathere are renegades and vampiresrunning gun and overrunning every street.There are always women in the crosswalksshepherding their invisible childrento non-existent schools.These women drink […]
So long as we're talking vampires…
Let’s blame Anne Rice Or, more specifically, if we’re going to start bitching about teenie-bopper bloodsuckers (which, I agree, are a true scourge), then really, we need to blame Lestat, Rice’s tortured antihero […]
Nota Bene #116: Long Live Elena Pavlichenko
“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” Who said it?
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
The Strain: A new vision of vampirism
Anyone who’s seen Guillermo del Toro’s recent movies—Pan’s Labyrinth and the Hellboy movies (and a two-part The Hobbit on the way)—probably expect anything spawned by that mind to be boldly imaginative. Del […]
Zombies: The new media darlings
Zombie: Don’t worry. Only people with brains get eaten. You’re safe. They aren’t sexy. They aren’t romantic. They aren’t tragically doomed. In fact, they’re ravenous, violent, and virtually unstoppable. They ooze all […]
Vampires and late-night TV spots
by greg stene, phd Okay. It’s 3:21 in the ayem. The bright digital numbers in the dark tell you that. The generalized anxiety of impending death sometime in the next three decades […]
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