Comedy is often
built on tragedy. Memoirs are a form of literature that often mines a person’s
tragedy to create universal feelings in the reader. Billy Crystal’s Still Foolin’ Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m
Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys is a brilliant memoir from a
supremely funny man. Much like Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up it serves as both a career retrospective piece as
well as means for Crystal to show some of the events that shaped the performer
we see.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Blood Rites: Sex, Blood, Magic
Sexy vampires have
been part of pop culture for the last 20-odd years. In literature, one could
say Anne Rice began the trend of mixing eroticism into vampire storytelling.
Later writers like Laurell K. Hamilton and Charlene Harris (of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series and The Southern Vampire Mysteries series,
respectively) would continue the trend. In the Dresden universe, Jim Butcher
first introduced the White Court vampire Thomas in Grave Peril. Blood Rites,
the 6th book in The Dresden Files, places the White Court at the
center of the plot. The White Court members are the seductive vampires, the
ones who excel at manipulation and sexual slavery. But this is Harry Dresden’s
world and sexy vampires are still vampires.
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