We get a Kat P? Whee! It will be so good to have you in the area, Kat. Can't wait to see you again! Speaking of LA, LAistas, insent to those whose emails I have.

Brenda, glad to hear that Lucy is turning a corner.

ita, I was so incredibly happy to hear about your good ER experience! I want to kiss your attending.

Sweet suffering Bram Stoker, what is WRONG with those children? I guess my idea to include a sidebar of "The Lady of the Manners top 13 vampire books" in the manuscript wasn't just self-indulgent.

Please! Oh, please! Oh pretty, pretty please!

When it happened, I literally sat down on the edge of the stage it so threw me. Combine that with their not knowing who Anne Rice was simply too much. I've mentioned the supposed vampire fans try 'Salem's Lot, They Thirst, Interview With The Vampire, Vampire Kisses, The Vampire Diaries and, of course, Stoker's Dracula. I've even suggested The Society of S and The Year of Disappearances as the author is from Orlando and part of the book takes place in this inbred county.

Nothing! No interest. They are hooked on Twilight! While I am glad this means they are reading, still... When one went so far as to utter the sentence, "But I only like Twilight vampires. Edward is so dreamy. I can't wait to see the movie." I think I actually sobbed.

During lunch that day I pulled out the several Dracula scripts I had and began rereading them as possible productions. I know I was muttering something about the lack of education in today's baby bats!

You can also point them at the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries....

You can also point them at the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries....

Oooo! I forgot to mention those!

"But I only like Twilight vampires. Edward is so dreamy. I can't wait to see the movie." I think I actually sobbed.

I... I...

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

::stomps off snarling::

I may pick up my Buffy fic writing again just so I can have Spike snarl at some baby-Slayer who keeps trying to see if he glitters.

In a music history class, we heard a really old recording of the last surviving castrato from the twenties and it was eeeeeeeerie.

The project I am working on is (for class) is a poster for YBCA's hosting of Monsters and Prodigies: A History of the Castrati by Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes - the same production was on Broadway a couple years ago. The gentleman playing the castrato - Javier Medina - had leukemia as a kid and has a hybrid larynx, and has a soprano voice as a result. From the clips on YouTube, he sounds like the real deal. It's fucking eerie.

I know I was muttering something about the lack of education in today's baby bats!

Not to be all Gothier Than Them, but those kiddoes aren't babybats. If they're not interested in anything beyond Twilight, they're just interested in the dreaminess du jour.

Brenda! Yay for Lucy!!!

Do it!!!

I think Rice was actually a very skilled and evocative writer early on, before the purple prose gobbled her up and ran away.

It wasn't the purple prose gobbling her up; it was her loudly, proudly stated vow to not allow an editor to touch her precious baby words. You can see exactly where it happened (after Queen of the Damned and The Witching Hour, IMO), because the delineation between "fun, over-the-top, sensual prose" and "what fresh hell IS THIS?" is so clear that anyone with the ability to read can see it.

was surprised going from Interview (which was very densely written, languid and sensual) to Lestat (which flies along like any old airport read).

Yes, this. It was hard to grasp they were the same writer.

I have to disagree on Interview; I thought it was slow as hell and plodded along, and I adored Lestat (the book, though not necessarily the character).

I actually think it was rather brilliant that Rice gave us a whole book where we thought Louis was the hero, and fell in love with him (at least I know I did) and THEN gave us Lestat as hero. Because I hated Lestat and then there was this enormous switch which I went along with, despite that.