Amy Mah's Blog, page 23
March 29, 2014
£1m racism claim over Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear 'slope' jibe
How stupid, This is just so stupid to sue over for a start.
And I did not know Slope was a rude word and I am Asian! Come on what does it mean?
There is a religious war going on it Burma and someone picks up on a word to complain about?
As if there were not 1,000's of rude words Asians use to describe white people, and the only reason white folks don't know is that we do not tell them and you sure will not find them in a normal dictionary.
Amelia Mah Slope, slopehead, slopy, slopey, sloper
(US and Aus) a person of Asian (in Australia, especially Vietnamese; in America, especially Chinese) descent.[188]
No wonder I do not know of it it is American and AustralianSo stupid to complain about it on a UK program where the word is not known.
Film star launches £1m racism claim over Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear 'slope' jibe
Controversial: Richard Hammond, left, and Jeremy Clarkson on the bridge as the comment was made
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An Asian film star has launched an £1 million racism claim against the BBC over Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘slope on a bridge’ jibe in a Top Gear special from Burma.
The controversy-seeking motor mouth made the off-the-cuff remark as the camera trained across a bridge the trio had built for a challenge to cross the River Kwai.
“That is a proud moment, but there’s a slope on it”, he deadpanned as an Asian man walked into the frame.
The word ‘slope’ is considered a derogatory term for Asian people. It led to an immediate backlash on Twitter when the episode was broadcast, with one viewer describing it as “not big, not clever, not funny”.
Another wrote: “Unbelievable that @BBC_TopGear are allowed to broadcast such racist and disrespectful rubbish so proudly on the #bbc’.”
Indian-born actress Somi Guha, 36, is taking legal action for unlawful discrimination by a public body. Her lawyers claim the BBC could face £1 million in damages under equality laws unless it apologises and takes the motoring show off the air.
In her formal written complaint to the BBC Ms Guha, who starred in 2006 hit movie Children of Men and lives in Tower Hamlets, east London, wrote: “Casual racism in the media by established BBC stalwarts is constantly brushed aside. Discrimination within the industry is accepted. Racial profiling of roles is accepted and expected.
“I find it offensive that Jeremy Clarkson refers to people of different races in pejorative terms. What is that saying to children who watch him? That it’s okay to bully and make racist comments. Jeremy Clarkson has made derogatory comments about Mexicans. Now he bullies an Asian person. It has to stop.”
Ms Guha’s lawyers have written to BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten demanding the show is stopped while an investigation is launched.
Lawrence Davies, from solicitors Equal Justice, said: “The BBC refuses to tackle serial offender Jeremy Clarkson. The BBC defends his behaviour as British humour but it is offensive, casual racism being used to boost ratings.”
The firm also represented Mexican student Iris de la Torre when she accused co-presenter Richard Hammond of making bigoted comments about her countrymen.
Hammond branded Mexicans ‘lazy, feckless and flatulent’ while Clarkson claimed its ambassador to the UK would not complain because he would be snoring in front of his television at the embassy.
Mexican ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza did then made a formal complaint to the BBC but Ms de la Torres’s complaint was dropped after she received an apology from the broadcaster.
The TV show, renowned for its schoolboy humour and audacious stunts, is no stranger to controversy.
Earlier this year, Clarkson was forced to apologise for posting a picture of himself asleep on a plane, with a sign with the words ‘ gay c**t’ written on it, and an arrow pointed at himself.
A BBC spokeswoman for Top Gear said gave no comment on Ms Guha’s action.
And I did not know Slope was a rude word and I am Asian! Come on what does it mean?
There is a religious war going on it Burma and someone picks up on a word to complain about?
As if there were not 1,000's of rude words Asians use to describe white people, and the only reason white folks don't know is that we do not tell them and you sure will not find them in a normal dictionary.
Amelia Mah Slope, slopehead, slopy, slopey, sloper
(US and Aus) a person of Asian (in Australia, especially Vietnamese; in America, especially Chinese) descent.[188]
No wonder I do not know of it it is American and AustralianSo stupid to complain about it on a UK program where the word is not known.
Film star launches £1m racism claim over Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear 'slope' jibe
Controversial: Richard Hammond, left, and Jeremy Clarkson on the bridge as the comment was made
8424An Asian film star has launched an £1 million racism claim against the BBC over Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘slope on a bridge’ jibe in a Top Gear special from Burma.
The controversy-seeking motor mouth made the off-the-cuff remark as the camera trained across a bridge the trio had built for a challenge to cross the River Kwai.
“That is a proud moment, but there’s a slope on it”, he deadpanned as an Asian man walked into the frame.
The word ‘slope’ is considered a derogatory term for Asian people. It led to an immediate backlash on Twitter when the episode was broadcast, with one viewer describing it as “not big, not clever, not funny”.
Another wrote: “Unbelievable that @BBC_TopGear are allowed to broadcast such racist and disrespectful rubbish so proudly on the #bbc’.”
Indian-born actress Somi Guha, 36, is taking legal action for unlawful discrimination by a public body. Her lawyers claim the BBC could face £1 million in damages under equality laws unless it apologises and takes the motoring show off the air.
In her formal written complaint to the BBC Ms Guha, who starred in 2006 hit movie Children of Men and lives in Tower Hamlets, east London, wrote: “Casual racism in the media by established BBC stalwarts is constantly brushed aside. Discrimination within the industry is accepted. Racial profiling of roles is accepted and expected.
“I find it offensive that Jeremy Clarkson refers to people of different races in pejorative terms. What is that saying to children who watch him? That it’s okay to bully and make racist comments. Jeremy Clarkson has made derogatory comments about Mexicans. Now he bullies an Asian person. It has to stop.”
Ms Guha’s lawyers have written to BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten demanding the show is stopped while an investigation is launched.
Lawrence Davies, from solicitors Equal Justice, said: “The BBC refuses to tackle serial offender Jeremy Clarkson. The BBC defends his behaviour as British humour but it is offensive, casual racism being used to boost ratings.”
The firm also represented Mexican student Iris de la Torre when she accused co-presenter Richard Hammond of making bigoted comments about her countrymen.
Hammond branded Mexicans ‘lazy, feckless and flatulent’ while Clarkson claimed its ambassador to the UK would not complain because he would be snoring in front of his television at the embassy.
Mexican ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza did then made a formal complaint to the BBC but Ms de la Torres’s complaint was dropped after she received an apology from the broadcaster.
The TV show, renowned for its schoolboy humour and audacious stunts, is no stranger to controversy.
Earlier this year, Clarkson was forced to apologise for posting a picture of himself asleep on a plane, with a sign with the words ‘ gay c**t’ written on it, and an arrow pointed at himself.
A BBC spokeswoman for Top Gear said gave no comment on Ms Guha’s action.
March 25, 2014
March 23, 2014
A VAMPIRE'S GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS
A VAMPIRE'S GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANSBy
Steven P. Unger
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St. Louis Cathedral
I wrote this article on New Orleans as an homage to one of my favorite cities, one still fresh in my mind and heart after a long-postponed revisit there as an invitee to the Vampire Film Festival's Midsummer Nightmare last year. All of the photos in this article are my own, except for the portrait of the Compte de St. Germain and the two pictures otherwise credited. Most of the text is a compendium of others' words and research. With apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently left out, my online research for this chapter led me to articles from hubpages.com; Kalila K. Smith (whose Vampire Tour I can recommend from personal experience�seehttp://www.zoominfo.com/p/Kalila-Smith/178024410); New Orleans Ghosts.com; GO NOLA; Brian Harrison; Haunted Shreveport Bossier.com; and Frommers.com. I've borrowed freely from all of these sources and recommend them highly to those who would like to delve more deeply into the secrets of this unique city.
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If you have ever walked the dark, rainy streets of the French Quarter at night, you have seen the voodoo shops selling their gris-gris and John-the-Conqueror Root. You've seen the old woman in the French Market whose pointing finger foretells your death And if you know the right person to ask and you ask in the right way, you'll be shown to the vampire clubs. I've been in those clubs and seen people who believe with their heart, body, and soul that they are real, live vampires. And some of the people in those clubs are scared to death of a select group of vampires who have only appeared there a few times, and always in the darkest of night. By day, of course, the vampire clubs are closed and locked or turned back into regular tourist bars . . .--Crazy Horse's Ghost
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St. Louis Cemetery (Photo Courtesy of David Yeagley) Like the Spanish Moss that drapes the trees of the nearby bayous, mystery and the occult have shrouded New Orleans since its birth. For hundreds of years, families there have practiced a custom called "sitting up with the dead." When a family member dies, a relative or close family friend stays with the body until it is placed into one of New Orleans' above-ground tombs or is buried. The body is never left unattended. There are many reasons given for this practice today�the Old Families will tell you it's simply respect for the dead�but this tradition actually dates back to the vampire folklore of medieval Eastern Europe. First, the mirrors are covered and the clocks are stopped. While sitting up with the deceased, the friend or family member is really watching for signs of paranormal activity, e.g.,. if a cat is seen to jump over, walk across, or stand on top of the coffin; if a dog barks or growls at the coffin; or if a horse shies from it, these are all signs of impending vampirism. Likewise, if a shadow falls over the corpse. At that point, steps are taken to prevent the corpse from returning from the dead. Ways to stop a corpse�especially a suicide�from becoming a vampire include burying it face down at a crossroads. Often family members place a sickle around the neck to keep the corpse from sitting up; stuff the mouth with garlic and sew it closed; or mutilate the body, usually by decapitating the head and placing it at the bottom of the feet. But the most common remedy for impending vampirism is to drive a stake into the corpse, decapitate it, then burn the body to ashes. This method is still believed to be the only sure way to truly destroy the undead.[image error]
THE CASKET GIRLS
Ask any member of the Old Families who the first vampires to come to New Orleans were, and they'll tell you the same: it was the Casket Girls. Much of the population that found their way to New Orleans in the early 1700s were unwelcome anywhere else: deported galley slaves and felons, trappers, gold-hunters and petty criminals. People who wouldn't be noticed if they went missing. Sources vary on the specifics, but the basic story is that the city�s founders asked French officials to send over prospective wives for the colonists. They obliged and after months at sea these young girls showed up on the docks, pale and gaunt, bearing only as many belongings as would fit inside a wooden chest or "casquette," which appears to have been the 18th Century equivalent of an overnight bag. They were taken to the Ursuline Convent, which still stands today, where the girls were said to have resided until the nuns could arrange for marriages. Some accounts say they were fine young women, virgins brought up in church-run orphanages; some say they were prostitutes. But there are many who swear they were vampires, vampires who continue to rise from their "casquettes" on the third floor to break through the windows and hurricane shutters�windows and shutters that always seem to need repairing after the calmest of nights�to feed upon the transient crowds that for centuries have filled the darkened alleys of the Quarter. Finally in 1978, after centuries of rumors and stories, two amateur reporters demanded to see these coffins. The archbishop, of course, denied them entrance. Undaunted, the next night the two men climbed over the convent wall with their recording equipment and set up their workstation below. The next morning, the reporters' equipment was found strewn about the lawn. And on the front porch steps of the convent were found the almost decapitated bodies of these two men. Eighty percent of their blood was gone. To this day, no one has ever solved the murders.
LE COMPTE DE ST. GERMAIN
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Le Compte de St. Germain and the Balcony at Ursuline and Royal If there is one person who encapsulates the lure and the danger of the vampire, it is the Compte de Saint Germain. Making his first appearance in the court of Louis XV of France, the Comte de Saint Germain endeared himself to the aristocrats by regaling them with events from his past. An alchemist by trade, he claimed to be in possession of the "elixir of life," and to be more than 6,000 years old. At other times the Count at claimed to be a son of Francis II Rakoczi, the Prince of Transylvania, born in 1712, possibly legitimate, possibly by Duchess Violante Beatrice of Bavaria. This would account for his wealth and fine education. It also explains why kings would accept him as one of their own. Contemporary accounts from the time record that despite being in the midst of many banquets and invited to the finest homes, he never ate at any of them. He would, however, sip at a glass of red wine. After a few years, he left the French court and moved to Germany, where he was reported to have died. However, people continued to spot him throughout Europe even after his death. In 1903, a handsome and charismatic young Frenchman named Jacques Saint Germain, claiming to be a descendant of the Compte, arrived in New Orleans, taking residence in a house at the corner of Royal and Ursuline streets. Possessing an eye for beauty, Jacques was seen on the streets of the French Quarter with a different young woman on his arm every evening. His excursions came to an abrupt end one cold December night, when a woman�s piercing scream was heard coming from Jacques� French Quarter home. The scream was quickly followed by a woman who flung herself from the second story window to land on the street below. As bystanders rushed to her aid, she told them how Saint Germain attacked and bit her, and that she jumped out of the window to escape. She died later that evening at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. By the time the New Orleans police kicked in the door of Saint Germain�s home, he had escaped. However, what they did find was disturbing enough. The stench of death greeted the nostrils of the policemen, who found not only large bloodstains in the wooden flooring, but even wine bottles filled with human blood. The house was declared a crime scene and sealed off. From that evil night to the present day, no one has lived in that home in the French Quarter. It is private property and all taxes have been paid to date, but no one has been able to contact the present owner or owners. The only barriers between the valuable French Quarter property and the outside world are the boarded-up balcony windows and a small lock on the door. Whispers of Jacques sightings are prevalent, and people still report seeing him in the French Quarter. Could it be the enigmatic Compte checking up on his property?
ANNE RICE AND THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES
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Lafayette Cemetery (Photo Courtesy of Phil Orgeron) There is no one who has done more to bring the vampire into the New Age than Anne Rice, born and bred in New Orleans, with her novel Interview with the Vampire and the films and books that followed. Those who have profited mightily from the popularity of True Blood and Twilight owe her a great debt. The ultra-retro St. Charles Avenue Streetcar will take you close to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, the gravesite of Louis de Pointe du Lac's (Lestat's companion and fellow vampire in Rice's The Vampire Chronicles) wife and child and where Louis was turned into a vampire by Lestat. The Styrofoam tomb from the film Interview with the Vampire is gone now, but you can easily find the site where it stood, the wide empty space in the cemetery nearest the corner of Coliseum and Sixth Street. During the filming of Interview with the Vampire, the blocks between 700 and 900 Royal Street in the French Quarter were used for exterior shots of the home of the vampires Louis, Lestat, and Claudia, trapped through time with an adult mind in the body of a six-year-old girl. In fact, the streets there and around Jackson Square were covered in mud for the movie as they had been in the 1860s when the scenes took place. The perfectly preserved Gallier House at 1132 Royal Street was Anne Rice's inspiration for the vampires' house, and very close to that is the Lalaurie House, at 1140 Royal Street. Delphine Lalaurie, portrayed by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven, was a real person who lived in that house and was indeed said to have tortured and bathed in the blood of her slaves�even the blood of a slave girl's newborn baby�to preserve her youth. She was never seen again in New Orleans after an angry mob partially destroyed her home on April 10, 1834. There is a scene in American Horror Story where Delphine escapes from the coven's mansion and sits dejectedly on the curb in front of her old home. A private residence now, some locals still swear that the Lalaurie House is haunted, and that the clanking of chains can be heard through the night. Built in 1789, Madame John's Legacy (632 Dumaine Street) is the oldest surviving residence in the Mississippi Valley. In Interview with the Vampire, caskets are shown being carried out of the house as Louis' (Brad Pitt) voice-over describes the handiwork of his housemates Claudia and Lestat: "An infant prodigy with a lust for killing that matched his own. Together, they finished off whole families."
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RESOURCES FOR VAMPIRES
As a service to this most vampire-friendly city (http://www.vampirewebsite.net/vampirefriendlycities.html), the New Orleans Vampire Association describes itself as a "non-profit organization comprised of self-identifying vampires representing an alliance between Houses within the Community in the Greater New Orleans Area. Founded in 2005, NOVA was established to provide support and structure for the vampire and other-kin subcultures and to provide educational and charitable outreach to those in need." Their Web site also points out that "every year since Hurricane Katrina, the founding members of NOVA have taken food out on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to those who are hungry and homeless." (Seehttp://www.neworleansvampireassociation.org/index.html.) FANGTASIA, named with permission from HBO after the club featured in True Blood, is an affiliation of New Orleans-based musicians and film and TV producers who for three years have presented a multi-day vampire-centric event of the same name, the first two years at 1135 Decatur and last year at the Howlin' Wolf. You can follow their plans and exploits via their blog at http://www.fangtasiaevent.com/fangtasia-blog/. Next year FANGTASIA hopes to create "the South by Southwest of Global Vampire Culture" at an as yet undisclosed location in Greater New Orleans. As they describe it: Moving beyond this third consecutive year, FANGTASIA is building a broader international draw that will bring fans to not only party at club nights, but also attend conferences, elegant fashion shows, film & TV screenings, celebrity events as well as an international Halloween/party gear buyers� market. Participants will experience gourmet sensations, explore our sensuous city and haunted bayous as well as epically celebrate the Global Vampire Culture in all its sultry, seductive, diverse and darkly divine incarnations. Additionally, FANGTASIA is strategically poised months prior to Halloween to provide corporate sponsors and vendors a perfect window to connect with their core demographic. This also allows FANGTASIA to actively support and promote existing major Halloween events in New Orleans and beyond. On the subject of vampiric Halloween events, for 25 years the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club (http://arvlfc.com/index.html) has presented the annual Vampire Ball (http://arvlfc.com/ball.html), now as part of the four-day UndeadCon (http://arvlfc.com/undeadcon.html) at the end of October; and on the weekend nearest Halloween Night (for example, November 1, 2014) the Endless Night Festival and New Orleans Vampire Ball takes place at the House of Blues (http://www.endlessnight.com/venue/).
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The Boutique du Vampyre (http://feelthebite.com/boutique2013.html) is a moveable (literally�they're known to change locations on short notice) feast of vampire and Goth-related odds and ends, many of them locally made. There are books as well�you may even find a copy of In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide if they're not sold out. Their Web site itself holds a surprise treat: a link to a free video cast of the first two seasons of Vampire Mob (http://vampiremob.com/Vampire_Mob/Vampire_Mob.html), which is just what the title implies. Finally, no visit to the Crescent City would be complete, for Vampire and Mortal alike, without a taste of absinthe (http://www.piratesalleycafe.com/absinthe.html), or even more than a taste. There is a ritual to the preparation and serving of absinthe that should not be missed; one of the sites that does this authentically is the Pirates Alley Café and Absinthe House at 622 Pirates Alley. *** Steven P. Unger is the best-selling author of In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide, published and distributed by World Audience Publishers (http://www.amazon.com/Footsteps-Dracula-Personal-Journey-Travel/dp/1935444530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262485478&sr=1-1). In the Footsteps of Dracula can be ordered from your local bookstore or online at www.amazon.com,. www.amazon.co.uk, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.com/Kindle, or with free delivery worldwide from www.bookdepository.co.uk.
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https://www.amazon.com/author/steven_p._unger_wordworker
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St. Louis Cathedral
I wrote this article on New Orleans as an homage to one of my favorite cities, one still fresh in my mind and heart after a long-postponed revisit there as an invitee to the Vampire Film Festival's Midsummer Nightmare last year. All of the photos in this article are my own, except for the portrait of the Compte de St. Germain and the two pictures otherwise credited. Most of the text is a compendium of others' words and research. With apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently left out, my online research for this chapter led me to articles from hubpages.com; Kalila K. Smith (whose Vampire Tour I can recommend from personal experience�seehttp://www.zoominfo.com/p/Kalila-Smith/178024410); New Orleans Ghosts.com; GO NOLA; Brian Harrison; Haunted Shreveport Bossier.com; and Frommers.com. I've borrowed freely from all of these sources and recommend them highly to those who would like to delve more deeply into the secrets of this unique city.
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If you have ever walked the dark, rainy streets of the French Quarter at night, you have seen the voodoo shops selling their gris-gris and John-the-Conqueror Root. You've seen the old woman in the French Market whose pointing finger foretells your death And if you know the right person to ask and you ask in the right way, you'll be shown to the vampire clubs. I've been in those clubs and seen people who believe with their heart, body, and soul that they are real, live vampires. And some of the people in those clubs are scared to death of a select group of vampires who have only appeared there a few times, and always in the darkest of night. By day, of course, the vampire clubs are closed and locked or turned back into regular tourist bars . . .--Crazy Horse's Ghost
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St. Louis Cemetery (Photo Courtesy of David Yeagley) Like the Spanish Moss that drapes the trees of the nearby bayous, mystery and the occult have shrouded New Orleans since its birth. For hundreds of years, families there have practiced a custom called "sitting up with the dead." When a family member dies, a relative or close family friend stays with the body until it is placed into one of New Orleans' above-ground tombs or is buried. The body is never left unattended. There are many reasons given for this practice today�the Old Families will tell you it's simply respect for the dead�but this tradition actually dates back to the vampire folklore of medieval Eastern Europe. First, the mirrors are covered and the clocks are stopped. While sitting up with the deceased, the friend or family member is really watching for signs of paranormal activity, e.g.,. if a cat is seen to jump over, walk across, or stand on top of the coffin; if a dog barks or growls at the coffin; or if a horse shies from it, these are all signs of impending vampirism. Likewise, if a shadow falls over the corpse. At that point, steps are taken to prevent the corpse from returning from the dead. Ways to stop a corpse�especially a suicide�from becoming a vampire include burying it face down at a crossroads. Often family members place a sickle around the neck to keep the corpse from sitting up; stuff the mouth with garlic and sew it closed; or mutilate the body, usually by decapitating the head and placing it at the bottom of the feet. But the most common remedy for impending vampirism is to drive a stake into the corpse, decapitate it, then burn the body to ashes. This method is still believed to be the only sure way to truly destroy the undead.[image error]
THE CASKET GIRLS
Ask any member of the Old Families who the first vampires to come to New Orleans were, and they'll tell you the same: it was the Casket Girls. Much of the population that found their way to New Orleans in the early 1700s were unwelcome anywhere else: deported galley slaves and felons, trappers, gold-hunters and petty criminals. People who wouldn't be noticed if they went missing. Sources vary on the specifics, but the basic story is that the city�s founders asked French officials to send over prospective wives for the colonists. They obliged and after months at sea these young girls showed up on the docks, pale and gaunt, bearing only as many belongings as would fit inside a wooden chest or "casquette," which appears to have been the 18th Century equivalent of an overnight bag. They were taken to the Ursuline Convent, which still stands today, where the girls were said to have resided until the nuns could arrange for marriages. Some accounts say they were fine young women, virgins brought up in church-run orphanages; some say they were prostitutes. But there are many who swear they were vampires, vampires who continue to rise from their "casquettes" on the third floor to break through the windows and hurricane shutters�windows and shutters that always seem to need repairing after the calmest of nights�to feed upon the transient crowds that for centuries have filled the darkened alleys of the Quarter. Finally in 1978, after centuries of rumors and stories, two amateur reporters demanded to see these coffins. The archbishop, of course, denied them entrance. Undaunted, the next night the two men climbed over the convent wall with their recording equipment and set up their workstation below. The next morning, the reporters' equipment was found strewn about the lawn. And on the front porch steps of the convent were found the almost decapitated bodies of these two men. Eighty percent of their blood was gone. To this day, no one has ever solved the murders.
LE COMPTE DE ST. GERMAIN
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Le Compte de St. Germain and the Balcony at Ursuline and Royal If there is one person who encapsulates the lure and the danger of the vampire, it is the Compte de Saint Germain. Making his first appearance in the court of Louis XV of France, the Comte de Saint Germain endeared himself to the aristocrats by regaling them with events from his past. An alchemist by trade, he claimed to be in possession of the "elixir of life," and to be more than 6,000 years old. At other times the Count at claimed to be a son of Francis II Rakoczi, the Prince of Transylvania, born in 1712, possibly legitimate, possibly by Duchess Violante Beatrice of Bavaria. This would account for his wealth and fine education. It also explains why kings would accept him as one of their own. Contemporary accounts from the time record that despite being in the midst of many banquets and invited to the finest homes, he never ate at any of them. He would, however, sip at a glass of red wine. After a few years, he left the French court and moved to Germany, where he was reported to have died. However, people continued to spot him throughout Europe even after his death. In 1903, a handsome and charismatic young Frenchman named Jacques Saint Germain, claiming to be a descendant of the Compte, arrived in New Orleans, taking residence in a house at the corner of Royal and Ursuline streets. Possessing an eye for beauty, Jacques was seen on the streets of the French Quarter with a different young woman on his arm every evening. His excursions came to an abrupt end one cold December night, when a woman�s piercing scream was heard coming from Jacques� French Quarter home. The scream was quickly followed by a woman who flung herself from the second story window to land on the street below. As bystanders rushed to her aid, she told them how Saint Germain attacked and bit her, and that she jumped out of the window to escape. She died later that evening at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. By the time the New Orleans police kicked in the door of Saint Germain�s home, he had escaped. However, what they did find was disturbing enough. The stench of death greeted the nostrils of the policemen, who found not only large bloodstains in the wooden flooring, but even wine bottles filled with human blood. The house was declared a crime scene and sealed off. From that evil night to the present day, no one has lived in that home in the French Quarter. It is private property and all taxes have been paid to date, but no one has been able to contact the present owner or owners. The only barriers between the valuable French Quarter property and the outside world are the boarded-up balcony windows and a small lock on the door. Whispers of Jacques sightings are prevalent, and people still report seeing him in the French Quarter. Could it be the enigmatic Compte checking up on his property?
ANNE RICE AND THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES
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Lafayette Cemetery (Photo Courtesy of Phil Orgeron) There is no one who has done more to bring the vampire into the New Age than Anne Rice, born and bred in New Orleans, with her novel Interview with the Vampire and the films and books that followed. Those who have profited mightily from the popularity of True Blood and Twilight owe her a great debt. The ultra-retro St. Charles Avenue Streetcar will take you close to Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, the gravesite of Louis de Pointe du Lac's (Lestat's companion and fellow vampire in Rice's The Vampire Chronicles) wife and child and where Louis was turned into a vampire by Lestat. The Styrofoam tomb from the film Interview with the Vampire is gone now, but you can easily find the site where it stood, the wide empty space in the cemetery nearest the corner of Coliseum and Sixth Street. During the filming of Interview with the Vampire, the blocks between 700 and 900 Royal Street in the French Quarter were used for exterior shots of the home of the vampires Louis, Lestat, and Claudia, trapped through time with an adult mind in the body of a six-year-old girl. In fact, the streets there and around Jackson Square were covered in mud for the movie as they had been in the 1860s when the scenes took place. The perfectly preserved Gallier House at 1132 Royal Street was Anne Rice's inspiration for the vampires' house, and very close to that is the Lalaurie House, at 1140 Royal Street. Delphine Lalaurie, portrayed by Kathy Bates in American Horror Story: Coven, was a real person who lived in that house and was indeed said to have tortured and bathed in the blood of her slaves�even the blood of a slave girl's newborn baby�to preserve her youth. She was never seen again in New Orleans after an angry mob partially destroyed her home on April 10, 1834. There is a scene in American Horror Story where Delphine escapes from the coven's mansion and sits dejectedly on the curb in front of her old home. A private residence now, some locals still swear that the Lalaurie House is haunted, and that the clanking of chains can be heard through the night. Built in 1789, Madame John's Legacy (632 Dumaine Street) is the oldest surviving residence in the Mississippi Valley. In Interview with the Vampire, caskets are shown being carried out of the house as Louis' (Brad Pitt) voice-over describes the handiwork of his housemates Claudia and Lestat: "An infant prodigy with a lust for killing that matched his own. Together, they finished off whole families."
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RESOURCES FOR VAMPIRES
As a service to this most vampire-friendly city (http://www.vampirewebsite.net/vampirefriendlycities.html), the New Orleans Vampire Association describes itself as a "non-profit organization comprised of self-identifying vampires representing an alliance between Houses within the Community in the Greater New Orleans Area. Founded in 2005, NOVA was established to provide support and structure for the vampire and other-kin subcultures and to provide educational and charitable outreach to those in need." Their Web site also points out that "every year since Hurricane Katrina, the founding members of NOVA have taken food out on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas to those who are hungry and homeless." (Seehttp://www.neworleansvampireassociation.org/index.html.) FANGTASIA, named with permission from HBO after the club featured in True Blood, is an affiliation of New Orleans-based musicians and film and TV producers who for three years have presented a multi-day vampire-centric event of the same name, the first two years at 1135 Decatur and last year at the Howlin' Wolf. You can follow their plans and exploits via their blog at http://www.fangtasiaevent.com/fangtasia-blog/. Next year FANGTASIA hopes to create "the South by Southwest of Global Vampire Culture" at an as yet undisclosed location in Greater New Orleans. As they describe it: Moving beyond this third consecutive year, FANGTASIA is building a broader international draw that will bring fans to not only party at club nights, but also attend conferences, elegant fashion shows, film & TV screenings, celebrity events as well as an international Halloween/party gear buyers� market. Participants will experience gourmet sensations, explore our sensuous city and haunted bayous as well as epically celebrate the Global Vampire Culture in all its sultry, seductive, diverse and darkly divine incarnations. Additionally, FANGTASIA is strategically poised months prior to Halloween to provide corporate sponsors and vendors a perfect window to connect with their core demographic. This also allows FANGTASIA to actively support and promote existing major Halloween events in New Orleans and beyond. On the subject of vampiric Halloween events, for 25 years the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club (http://arvlfc.com/index.html) has presented the annual Vampire Ball (http://arvlfc.com/ball.html), now as part of the four-day UndeadCon (http://arvlfc.com/undeadcon.html) at the end of October; and on the weekend nearest Halloween Night (for example, November 1, 2014) the Endless Night Festival and New Orleans Vampire Ball takes place at the House of Blues (http://www.endlessnight.com/venue/).
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The Boutique du Vampyre (http://feelthebite.com/boutique2013.html) is a moveable (literally�they're known to change locations on short notice) feast of vampire and Goth-related odds and ends, many of them locally made. There are books as well�you may even find a copy of In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide if they're not sold out. Their Web site itself holds a surprise treat: a link to a free video cast of the first two seasons of Vampire Mob (http://vampiremob.com/Vampire_Mob/Vampire_Mob.html), which is just what the title implies. Finally, no visit to the Crescent City would be complete, for Vampire and Mortal alike, without a taste of absinthe (http://www.piratesalleycafe.com/absinthe.html), or even more than a taste. There is a ritual to the preparation and serving of absinthe that should not be missed; one of the sites that does this authentically is the Pirates Alley Café and Absinthe House at 622 Pirates Alley. *** Steven P. Unger is the best-selling author of In the Footsteps of Dracula: A Personal Journey and Travel Guide, published and distributed by World Audience Publishers (http://www.amazon.com/Footsteps-Dracula-Personal-Journey-Travel/dp/1935444530/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262485478&sr=1-1). In the Footsteps of Dracula can be ordered from your local bookstore or online at www.amazon.com,. www.amazon.co.uk, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.com/Kindle, or with free delivery worldwide from www.bookdepository.co.uk.
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"Choose Your Own Path" Adventure for Ages 4-8!
Author bio:Gerry Gaston is a freelance writer and engineer. His years of participating in role-playing adventure games, combined with his enjoyment of choose your own adventure books, motivated his efforts to create a new interactive format for children. His visually innovative storyline selection technique provides for a unique book reading experience. He lives with his family, cats and ferrets in Arkansas.
Book blurb:"Choose Your Own Path" Adventure for Ages 4-8! In this world, magic is real! It can be found everywhere, but only a few wizards have gained the power to use it or make enchanted items. You have been instructed to find and return a certain magical object, known as the Dragon Staff. It has the power to control dragons and your Master believes it was taken by the Red Wizard. He has likely hidden it in his mysteriously dark Tower. Beginning your quest with a strong desire to prove yourself, you meet with your Master in his castle library. And so your Adventure begins ...
I have recently released my 3rd “Choose Your Own Path” children's picture eBook adventure, filled with beautiful illustrations, for ages 4-8. This title uses a uniquely innovative interactive method allowing the reader to control the storyline sequence. I respectfully request you take a look at my title and consider posting a review or an announcement of its release.
Title: Quest for the Wizard's TowerAuthor: Gerry GastonFormat: Children’s Picture eBookAge Group: 4-8 yrs
The eBook listing can be viewed on Amazon at:http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-Adventure-Beautifully-Illustrated-Picture-ebook/dp/B00GKBQXAE
The first two published titles may also be of interest, they are:
Quest for the Dragon's Treasurehttp://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Treasure-Adventure-Beautifully-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B00DHKJ2YK
Quest for the Lost Treasurehttp://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Adventure-Beautifully-Illustrated-Picture-ebook/dp/B00959YHV0
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INTRODUCING AMY MAHby paws4puzzles
Today on Paws4Thought I have guest blogger Amy Mah.Author Amelia Mah is a 20 something snarky, sarcastic and cynical author who has a very popular blog of how she sees the world from the point of view of a modern teenage vampire Following the success of her first book “FANGS RULE A girls guide to being a vampire” she had now expanded the idea of life as a teenage vampire into a full novel Amelia has given her avatar her own name so you can see the world first hand from a very bored teenage vampire that has been forced to remain a teenager for far too long She may have very good teeth and the ability to hang from ceilings but life is far from easy.Here’s what she has to say:“My last Vampire book which I based on a younger version of myself, so if anyone asks no I am not 16 and do not live on blood, no this vampire lives on Chocolate!The two vampire books FANGS RULE and VAMPIRE have done nicely and given the world a whole new view on vampires, one thing that has surprised me is that no one has noticed that my vampires are Asian, so funny and I have given so many hints.People ask why do my vampires have arranged marriages, why does the main character call non relatives Uncle and Aunt just because they are older.So when you next read my vampire books look for the Asia vampire life style.To make a change my new book coming out later this year is very different and is a different take on Demons!”Stalker LinksBlog:Blogspot:TwitterFacebook profileFacebook page
Website
INTRODUCING AMY MAHby paws4puzzles
Today on Paws4Thought I have guest blogger Amy Mah.Author Amelia Mah is a 20 something snarky, sarcastic and cynical author who has a very popular blog of how she sees the world from the point of view of a modern teenage vampire Following the success of her first book “FANGS RULE A girls guide to being a vampire” she had now expanded the idea of life as a teenage vampire into a full novel Amelia has given her avatar her own name so you can see the world first hand from a very bored teenage vampire that has been forced to remain a teenager for far too long She may have very good teeth and the ability to hang from ceilings but life is far from easy.Here’s what she has to say:“My last Vampire book which I based on a younger version of myself, so if anyone asks no I am not 16 and do not live on blood, no this vampire lives on Chocolate!The two vampire books FANGS RULE and VAMPIRE have done nicely and given the world a whole new view on vampires, one thing that has surprised me is that no one has noticed that my vampires are Asian, so funny and I have given so many hints.People ask why do my vampires have arranged marriages, why does the main character call non relatives Uncle and Aunt just because they are older.So when you next read my vampire books look for the Asia vampire life style.To make a change my new book coming out later this year is very different and is a different take on Demons!”Stalker LinksBlog:Blogspot:TwitterFacebook profileFacebook page
Website
The Eclectic Paranormal Reader
Anthology: The Eclectic Paranormal ReaderAuthor: Toni V. SweeneyPublisher: Class Act BooksGenre: Paranormal Short StoriesRating: AdultContents:1 - Death Comes For Miss Naomi2 - The Cat's Letter To His Mistress3 - The Key: A Leonesse Tale4 - Sidewalk Sale5 - Victory For The Hawk6 - Paradise Redundant7 - Justice Above All8 - The Witch, The Wolf, And The Sellsword9 - One Good Turn
Nine fantasy short stories/novelettes to satisfy the imagination. A
combination of serious or adventurous fantasy alternating with a dash of
light or amusing fancy. Some may make the reader laugh or cause him to
peer into the shadows with concern. A few may provoke an unexpectedly
serious thought. All will definitely entertain. NOTE TO READERS: Some
stories contain gay characters or situations.
December 10, 2012
Double Helix by Jade Kerrion
Title: Love Triangles in the Double Helix
Love
triangles abound, at least in fiction. We love to take sides and to root for
one team or another. The Double Helix is a science fiction/urban fantasy
series; it isn’t specifically a romance, but love is universal and forms the
core of this story. Let’s take a look at the key players in this love triangle.
Zara Itani is a Lebanese-Venezuelan assassin. Sultry and
beautiful, she is lethal with blades and guns, and her attitude is more
abrasive than steel wool. Her relentlessly practical, take-no-prisoners style
results in her having little patience for people who will not tackle a problem
head-on. Strong-willed, an alpha female in every possible way, Zara respects
strength and courage. She also has a deeply hidden streak of compassion that
she will deny to her deathbed. She is “a catalyst of events, most of them
cataclysmic.”
It should come as no surprise that, on a whim, she frees
Galahad, the lab-created perfect human being from his laboratory prison.
Galahad is Zara’s perfect match. He possesses more than an incisive intellect,
impeccable manners, and stunning good looks. He’s the only one who can beat
Zara in a fair fight. Everyone wants him, but Zara has him. Zara and Galahad
are clearly made for each other.
When could perfection possibly not be good enough? When
you can compare perfection to its imperfect source, of course.
Danyael Sabre is an alpha empath and the genetic source
of Galahad’s physical template. They have the same pale blond hair, the same
striking dark eyes, the same sculptured features. Physically, they’re
identical. In every other way that matters, they’re not. After twenty-five
years of imprisonment in the laboratory where he was created, Galahad is eager
and impatient to seize the world. On the other hand, Danyael, after a traumatic
childhood as an undiagnosed alpha empath, wants nothing more than to be left
alone to do his job as a doctor in a charity clinic in poverty-stricken
Brooklyn neighborhood.
Zara’s impulsive action in freeing Galahad upends
Danyael’s hard-won normal life. Inevitably, Zara and Danyael meet, and just as
inevitably, she dislikes him. Danyael’s psychic shields, designed to deflect
attention, are partially to blame, but she would have found fault with him
anyway. She thinks he’s evasive and a coward, unwilling to face his past or
embrace his empathic mutant powers. He thinks she’s an interfering troublemaker
with a ruthless and cruel streak, but is too polite to say so. When she finally
falls in love with him, they are not certain if she did so on her own accord or
whether she was influenced by his emotion-altering mutant powers.
No question, Zara and Danyael are made for each other
too.
Who will Zara choose? The perfect human being who wants
her and everything that life can offer him, or the alpha empath who watches
silently from the sidelines of life? One thing is certain; being loved by Zara
isn’t safe. On a normal day, Zara can wreak more havoc with love than most people
can with hate. Good luck to the unfortunate guy Zara chooses, because he’ll
need it.
You can follow the Zara-Galahad-Danyael love triangle,
beginning with Perfection Unleashed,
the first novel in the award-winning Double Helix series.
Author Bio:
Jade
Kerrion unites cutting-edge science
and bioethics with fast-paced action in her award-winning Double Helix
series. Drawing rave reviews for its originality and vision, and described as
“a breakout piece of science fiction,” Perfection Unleashed ,
and its sequels, Perfect Betrayal
and Perfect
Weapon, are available in print and e-book through Amazon and
other major retailers.
About The Double Helix series:
His genetic code sourced from the best that humanity
offers, Galahad embodies the pinnacle of perfection. When Zara Itani, a
mercenary whose abrasive arrogance exceeds her beauty, frees him from his
laboratory prison, she offers him the chance to claim everything that had ever
been denied him, beginning with his humanity.
Perfection cannot be unleashed without repercussions, and
Galahad’s freedom shatters Danyael Sabre’s life.
An alpha empath, Danyael is rare and coveted, even among
the alpha mutants who dominate the Genetic Revolution. He wields the power to
heal or kill with a touch, but craves only privacy and solitude—both impossible
dreams for the man who was used as Galahad’s physical template.
Galahad and Danyael, two men, one face. One man seeks to
embrace destiny, and the other to escape it.
The award-winning Double Helix series, consisting
of Perfection
Unleashed , Perfect Betrayal ,
and Perfect
Weapon , will challenge your notions of perfection and
humanity, and lead you in a celebration of courage and compassion. Science
fiction, urban fantasy, and action-adventure readers will enjoy this thrilling
roller-coaster ride as it twists and turns through a world transformed by the
Genetic Revolution.
Social media and buy links:
Connect with Jade Kerrion: Blog / Facebook
Perfection Unleashed: Amazon / Amazon UK
/ Smashwords
Perfect Betrayal: Amazon / Amazon UK
/ Smashwords
Perfect Weapon: Amazon / Amazon UK
/ Smashwords
Social Media Links
Blog: http://www.jadekerrion.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JadeKerrion
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JadeKerrion
Perfection Unleashed
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008E98YFM
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008E98YFM
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/175081
Perfect Betrayal
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009YLG59Q
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009YLG59Q/
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/249761
Perfect Weapon
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009YMFSE8
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009YMFSE8
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/249762
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Amelia Mah
hi just to remind my readers that I do book features on my blog, book advertising is always so expensive so I offer a free service
My blog has over 38,000 hits and a large following, am what I do is lots of book features as well as life as a teenage vampire.
Send me a book cover pic, book blub and details on where it can be purchased along with author details and photo etc........ any thing that will make it good reading and i will do a book feature on it.
my email is: amymahvampire@aol.com
In return all I ask is that you help publicise my books in anyway you can such as also doing a feature on your blog on my books.
PROMOTIONAL SPOTLIGHT - FANGS RULE BY AMY MAH
Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire
By Amy Mah
FANGS RULE a girl’s guide to being a vampire …. is a young Adult book for anyone between Puberty and Senility as it takes a close up look at life as a female teenage vampire in easy to follow A to Z advice for the reader, the book is also full of manga art which helps show the human world what life is like in a vampire world……….
Giving helpful advice such as how to explain to your Mom that as a teenage blood curdling denizen of the night you would like to paint your cave bedroom black without having a shouting match over why you don’t like the way she painted the stalagmites bright pink to go with the large stuffed pink bats hanging from the ceiling.
Everything is explained from how to polish your fangs to fashion tips and ways of climbing across a ceiling wearing a nightdress without showing your underwear.
Fangs Rule is a must for every teenage vampire and from these pages you will see why Amy says “Vampires Don’t Sparkle! …. They Bite!
Hi! My name is Amy Mah Vampire and here are some helpful hints from my book: Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire
Going out on a date: Yes we all go thought the same difficulties of what to wear, the wardrobe will not shut but I still do not have anything suitable, so after hours of searching in the end I decide to wear black as it will match my comfy shoes, ok so I have more shoes than a dictators wife but only one comfy pair and they are black, why comfy shoes? Well I have no idea where we are going so what the heck should I wear!
Now comes the date bag, why can’t a girl just go out, and when I say a girl I mean me, why do I have to look like I’m going for a 10 day vacation and not just a night out.
So let’s open the date bag and check if everything is there.
1. Cell phone fully charged.
2. Spare cash and credit card.
3. Packet of mints for after eating smelly food….er…………foreigners
4. Chap stick ….well you may kiss him and …….. it goes with the mints ok?
5. Make up mirror, why take a mirror you ask, ..er …well if I get ship wreaked I can use it to signal for help, look it is just needed ok!
6. Packet of tissues just in case you cannot find a washroom when out.
7. Keys large bunch and no I do not know why luggage keys are on the same ring with my house keys.
8. Sun glasses, hat and 100% sun block just in case you stay out early.
9. A spare pair of panties in case I sleep over ……… er not that I am planning to sleep over … er forget it ok! Look I said stop giggling and forget it!!!!
10. Precautions and protection, nowadays it is not just a boys reasonability for protection and so a girl should also take her own protection if needed, personally I take a can of Mace and a 10 inch kitchen knife and if that fails I sink my teeth into the neck!
Get it: Amazon Kindle Amazon Paperback
December 9, 2012
No point in keeping legs crossed Once you have your panties in your hands
Pantie-less Vampire girl v the squat toilet
Look just because the movies don’t show that Vampires have normal bodily functions it does not mean they don’t have them………… let me give you a hint a vampire bat after a meal goes off to use its bathroom ok so when visiting a bat cave don't look up!…..now then why do you think that after 8 pints of blood I would not like to do the same thing?
My trip to SE Asia this year gave me lots of problems ………..Not so much as finding a meal but how to get rid of it afterwards ………..just listen:
Your Panties are griped tightly in your hand and your skirt clenched between your teeth and they say this is a holiday!
There comes a time when you can no longer cross your legs and when a girls got to go a girls got to go ………….
How To Use a Squat Toilet
Mastering Squat Toilets: Toilet Paper Necklace -- Female Travel Underground
But when in SE Asia just try and keep your legs crossed a bit longer as the toilets are so not good news for a nice vampire girl brought up in the west ………..
I got myself a nice light long flowing cotton dress to try and keep cool in and also hide the heat lumps …………. No not heat rash but heat lumps ………anything over 2inch dia is a lump ………it is also red and itches like **** ……
Look I’m a vampire and so even with 100% sun block I still suffer from the sun………….. No I am not the sort that catch fire ! I’m the sort slowly turns into one giant heat lump ……..
Culture shock
The toilets are PRIMATIVE ………yes very primitive …… a concrete room with stalls and flies lots and lots of flies……er did I say lots of flies…….. Each stall has a hole in the ground ………which looks like an entrance to hell……..and the floor is wet very wet …….this is due to the hose pipe which is attached to a tap in the wall and which is constantly running ……………. No toilet paper ……………you use a water hose pipe and fingers to wash yourself !!!!! YES IT IS TRUE ! You stick a cold water hose pipe between your legs !!!
As to no toilet paper a lot of the stalls don’t have doors !!!
Yes I know I have a cute Butt …..Well I have been told…………. Mostly by men over 60 that wink when they say it ………yuck……and men with odd tattoos on building sites………. but at least it is noticed……. and I am used to putting my cute butt down on a seat ………………Of course I can squat …..I am female and all females can squat but ….well I have two legs but you don’t see me taking part in the Olympics!
Well the floor is soaking wet as I said very wet so I remove my panties……………. Yes well with my sense of balance it is best not to tie my knees together while squatting over a hole in a very wet floor, now is it! ………………
And I am wearing a long cotton dress ………….. and the floor is soaking wet …and I am hoping just from the hose pipe…………… soooooooooo how not to get the dress wet ?……… time is running out as I am getting so desperate I may even risk standing up but that could make the dress even wetter…………
I have a bright idea …..I grab the front of the dress, pull it up to my face and grip it between my teeth…………..
Thank god they don’t have CCTV ………………
So there I am A blood sucking Denizen of the night ergo A VAMPIRE ! squatting over a hole in the ground with my dress clenched between my teeth and my panties safely in my hands.
Then is the problem of working out how to use the hose pipe to clean yourself……………. How the heck was I to know that in a hot county the water was so ..so .so. very cold …………. And yes I discovered that by pointing it somewhere delicate !!!!!! ............. delicate and now dripping wet and very cold!!
I am sure such things should be banned under the UN as a torture technique ………..if you did not want to take a piss before you would now !!
And without tissue paper how do you dry yourself? ……………. Well you don’t ! ……….. you have just put a cold water hose pipe between your legs and you are now …..well ………..how can one put it …er……your personal rainforest is kinda dripping…..so I put my panties back on and …..yes before you ask it does feel like you have wet yourself..
Look I asked afterwards and I was told this is normal …NORMAL !!!!!!!!!! now just who would have put it about that it is normal to do that ! stick a hosepipe of cold water between your legs and then have to walk around like that …er damp……….you can’t even sit down for fear of leaving a damp patch.
Now this is why Vampires live in the West !!!!
Now if you plan to spend a long time in a wash room then why not take a book with you
www.fangsrule.com
December 8, 2012
mana
About
the author:
Hi, I'm Ash! I’ve always been good at doing at
least one thing in my life, getting people to break the mold. I’m very
passionate about the fantasy genre and I like where it is headed, but
sometimes, I can’t help but feel we’re all really buying the same stories just
told from a different POV.
I made it my duty to generate something in people
that already exists in low amounts, uniqueness and esteem. I chose to write
Mana because it does exactly what we all expect it to. Those who have read it
have thought differently about what it means to feel like to ”one in a
million.” It was very important that I convey that message in the book because,
every day, more people are doubting themselves and not realizing that only they
are capable of being themselves.
Nobody else in the world can write my book. No one
else in the world can tell me how to make my craft better (though I gladly
accept criticism ). Lastly, no one can diminish me or my works.
Simply because I refuse to be changed. I like
being one in a million, and so should you!
Mana on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Mana-Asher-Tensei/dp/1623750253/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8HYPERLINK
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Mana on Nook http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mana-asher-tensei/1112807327?ean=2940015457216
Video for Mana http://ashertensei.blogspot.com/p/mana-series.html
Mana on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15719561-mana
Book Blurb
Mana is the story of Eurich, a young man
with a seemingly ill-fated destiny thrust upon him. He has recently learned
that he possesses a legendary magic, one that may be able to save all of
mankind from a horrible future – if he chooses to use it. Eurich lives in a
world where Earth is on a seemingly imminent collision course with Chaos, due
to a weakening barrier between Earth and another world that has been hidden for
millennia. This barrier is causing Eurich’s universe to turn upside down. New
moons have appeared in the sky. Panic is rippling through every member of the
human race, and Eurich is the only one who has the power to fix what has gone
horribly wrong. Eurich’s closest friends, Jason and Raine, are doing their best
to help him, but what Eurich needs isn’t help – it’s a way through the barrier.
He and he alone must determine if humanity is worth saving, and if he is
willing to risk his life to do so. Saving the world always begins with a single
choice, but it’s one that Eurich may not be ready to make.
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Eva's Sanctuary on Vampires
Review of Vampire by Amy Mah
Since the author of this unusual and humorous book is herself unusual and a bit off the charts, I am doing something a little different with this review. Of course, I mean that in the most loving way. You don't doubt me, do you, Mistress Amelia? I think it is necessary to give a brief account of how our Amy sees herself and her writing. This is borrowed from Amy's blog with some minor editing on my part. Clears throat!
The author, Amelia Mah, is a 20 something snarky, sarcastic and cynical author who has a very popular blog of how she sees the world from the point of view of a modern teenage vampire. Following the success of her first book, "FANGS RULE A Girls Guide to being a Vampire," she has now expanded the idea of life as a teenage vampire into a full novel. Amelia has given her avatar her own name so you can see the world first hand from a very bored teenage vampire that has been forced to remain a teenager for far too long. She may have very good teeth and the ability to hang from ceilings but life is far from easy.
Below you will find the full color illustrated version of Vampire by Amy Mah. The edition that I read was the first printing and was not illustrated. Since I love the new version, I have decided to share that with you.
Vampire
Amy Mah
Reardon Publishing
ISBN 9781874192619
This is not your typical vampire story where vampires are jumping in bed with humans or are entangled with werewolves for one reason or another. This is the story of a teenage vampire who is just trying to survive in her day to day existence. It is humorous and will make you laugh out loud when Amy is just being her own unique self. She has a way with words that is like no other. This book gives us insight as to how how Amy meets her boyfriend Max and becomes best friends with his sister Ice, who were introduced in her first book. Amy is so outrageous that you can't help fall in love with her. I'm sure she would have something to say about that... No matter! The book is a delight and if you are into the strange and unusual, you must get your copy and see for yourself. You better get a copy unless you want to hear from the author. She has her own version of bending you to her will. In all seriousness, get your copy, it is a great book.
Disclosure: I received a copy from the publisher for reviewing purposes.
I give Vampire 5 out of 5 stars
Links:
www.fangsrule.com/buy.htm and can be found on the amazon US and UK sites.
A Bag of Gumballs by Katherine Hostetler
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Do you like to read a bunch of different genre's of books? If so, then you might want to consider reading this book. In this book, I am writing a bunch of different short stories and putting them together into one large book. All of them are special and unique.
The book is named A Bag of Gumballs because if you have a bag of gumballs and you choose a piece our of the bag, you'll never know what color it will be. It's always a surprise.
Here's a short little example:
“Are you sure it’s safe for you to walk home in this weather?” my friend said as she looked out the window that was on her front door. She stroked the window gingerly with her right hand. “I could always have my mom drive you.”
The fact that she was offering something that her mom should be offering made me slightly laugh. “I’m fine,” I said. “Don’t worry about me.” I opened the door, and as soon as it was open a large boom of thunder echoed through the sky.
“Are you sure?” she asked. Her eyes seemed to be a little bit winder than they usually were, and her hands seemed as though they were shaking with fear.
“I’m very sure,” I said. “Now, you go to bed.” I stepped outside, and I was immediately pelted with a sheet of rain. I turned around and faced her. The front of me was completely wet. “I’ll be fine,” I said with a laugh.
The wind howled as the rain beat against me and the sidewalk that was around me. It was the dead of the night, and I was wondering why I was walking anyways. Even if it wasn’t raining, it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to be out here. The cracking sound of thunder could be heard everywhere. From the dark clouds lightning would strike various places near me and light up the sky and the pathway in front of me just before vanishing.
Not too far away from me, I could see a glowing person outstretching their hand towards me. I rolled my eyes thinking to myself, “There’s no way there’s a ghost,”
As if reading my mind, they decided to prove me wrong about them not being a ghost. They started to hover off the ground. They were a pallid phantom that seemed to be picked right of my personal hell to force the screams out from my dry throat. Most people in this world would have seen this as a specter, but I wasn’t afraid. I stood there in awe.
The creature that was there was beautiful beyond belief. Her skin was creamy and white and her hair, a very large contrast, was a rich shade of mahogany. Long and beautiful lashes framed her emerald green eyes. Her beautiful eyes seemed to be boring into the depths of my soul. Her nose was strait, and she had the most beautiful, full lips that I had ever laid my eyes on. She seemed to be the picture of perfection. Had she been smiling, the whole word would sigh with contentment, and had she laughed, the world would laugh with her. Also, had she wept, everyone in the world, would be by her side to comfort her.
I took a step towards her. “Who are you?” I asked as I reached my hand out to her.
“I’m you,” she said with a smile. Her smile was like an angelic ray of light beaming down on me.
My arm fell back down to my side, and I squinted my eyes at her. “You can’t be me. Y-you’re so beautiful.” I whispered. I had awe in my tone.
“I’m you,” she paused and floated down in front of me. She was not even two feet away from me when she said, “I’m you in the future,” Seeing that I didn’t believe her, she said, “Soon, you’re going to die, and you’re going to become a spirit. Whenever you become a spirit, you become perfect.”
I felt my hands trembling at my sides. “How will I die?”
“That, I cannot say, but just know that you must be careful,” she glanced to her right and gasped. “I don’t have very much time left. I must go!” She started to fade away, and as she began to disappear, tears started to form in my right eye. With every gust of wind, she got more and more see-through.
“No, please don’t go! I need to know!” I shouted as I tried to grab onto her. My hand went strait through her. I looked down at my hand with shock. “No, no, no. This isn’t happening,” I whispered. I looked back up, and she was gone. The only thing left was a memory.
“Hey, you!” I heard a voice scream behind me.
“This is how I die,” I whispered to myself.
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Katherine Hostetler was born in a small town named Wellington, Florida. When she was first born, she had three older brothers. After two years of life, her new, baby sister was born. Throughout her childhood, Katherine immersed herself in the arts. The first thing that she started doing was writing. She had a passion for writing. Her peers thought she was really weird for liking things that they considered to be boring. They would tease her and call her names, but always, she would rise above them, and she wouldn’t be mean back. As she grew up even more, she started to get into cooking, playing piano, singing, and even playing hand bells. She was a very well rounded person most of her childhood. Katherine has bee trying to write books and stories since she learned how to write, but she didn’t have the chance to have any formal writing classes until this school year. She began to take a creative writing class that had only two other students in it. To serve her love of chorus, she has been in multiple choirs, summer performing camps, solo and ensembles, all-state choirs, and national choirs. To serve her love of hand bells and piano, she participated in a hand bell choir, a solo-ringing club, and she had piano lessons for seven years when she was young. Overall, she has had a lot of chances to improve her talents.
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