The Virtues of Vampires

Via Whatever, I found this piece by Matt Yglesias asking why — if vampires are thousands of years old — they don't act old:

Across various fictions, why don't vampires exhibit more cranky old man characteristics? I'm only 28 and already I feel myself periodically overtaken by a desire to tell the young people all about How It Was Back in the Day. I'll bore people with tedious stories about the old Monroe Street Giant in Columbia Heights before the fancy new stores opened, or about how there...