Vampire Fatigue and the Riverfront Photo Shoot
With New Moon about to hit theaters, all that I’m hearing about lately is vampires (luckily not from my wife). Now, I realize that romance is the largest selling genre in the book industry and I also realize that millions of tween girls are going crazy for the movie. What I just can’t stand is the mass of people trying to jump on the vampire band wagon. Let’s just list off some of the new vampire media since Twilight premiered:
- Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant
- Lesbian Vampire Killers
- The Vampire Diaries (CW)
- True Blood (HBO)
- Day Break (2010)
- Rosencrantz (2010)
- Gildenstern Are Undead (2010)
- Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire (2000 Disney show that’s been rerun since Twilight premiered)
Sadly, vampires have lost a lot of cool point with me from all of this. All I can see that this is doing to sending a message to tween girls that they won’t get with any hot guys unless their broodingly emo and wear far too much black eyeliner and eyeshadow. As if twelve year old girls didn’t have enough to deal with, now they have to do it all while being depressed. I don’t see a very good combination here…
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If you hadn’t noticed I updated the header picture on the blog! It felt a little self serving to put my ugly mug on it, and more than once I wanted to quote Disney’s Hercules by proclaiming loudly, “I haven’t seen this much love in a room since Narcissus discovered himself!” I think it looks good regardless of my inclusion, and it helps to make this blog uniquely mine.
Because my friends and I had so much fun doing this, I’ve added a slide show to this post so you can check out some of the other pictures that we took. They may end up as banners later on too. Also, make sure you keep an eye out for my completely inappropriate pose with a handicapped Bloomsday participant.
-Rich
