Vampires

This summer is the summer of Vampires. My wife introduced me to this book called Twilight by BYU grad Stephanie Meyer. Apparently this is a "chick book." It's about a teenage girl who moves to Forks Washington to live with her dad. Shortly after moving to Forks, she becomes involved with a Vampire and his undead family. Romantic, action and undead terror ensue. I read this book in a few days. I was totally engrossed in it. I did not expect to become so interested in this book but it was very well written and captured the emotional ups and downs of teenagedom really well.

Last night I watched Under World and Under World Evolution. I am now reading New Moon, the sequel to Twilight and in August the author of the series is coming to my Sister in Law's town for a book signing and my wife and I are trying to get my Sister in Law to get us a signed copy of the third title in the series: Eclipse.

I have heard rumors of a Twilight movie deal being in the works and I hope it works out. All this talk of vampires has got me wondering though.

Why do they call them the "undead?" I'm not dead; could I not go by that title as well? They call Zombies that too. So what exactly does undead mean? You're thoughts please (in haiku form of course).

Guest Stars

Why don't TV shows today do what they did in the 80's? You know, how they would have a super famous actor guest star in each episode, usually as the bad guy? Why don't they do that anymore? I would love to see an episode of LOST where each cut scene had a different super famous star appearing in some kind of role as an "other." That would be cool. It would also be cool if Mr. T made more TV appearances as well. Preferably on LOST. I would like to see Patrick Stewart on LOST as well, but not William Shatner. That would be awkward if you know what I mean. Sometimes when I'm watching LOST, I imagine that the main characters are the bad guys and the "others" are really the good guys. But then my thoughts quickly turn to how cool it would be if Sylvester Stallone was on LOST reprising his role as John Rambo. Can you imagine Rambo on LOST? I know why they don't do it. If Rambo was on LOST, everyone would be found because he would pull a "Lord of The Flies (LOTF)" and burn both of the Islands up with a flammable arrow. The Dukes of Hazzard used flammable arrows. What's up with that? They were on probation for the entire time they were on the air. Part of their probation terms was that they were not allowed to possess firearms. So that makes a lot of sense. They couldn't have guns but they could have explosive tipped arrows. Nice. They had a sweet car though. You know who else had a sweet car? T.J. Hooker. Again with the William Shatner. T.J. Hooker was pretty amazing. There was a lot of hood sliding in that show. I wonder how they got away with all that hood sliding without denting the hoods of their squad cars? You could never get away with doing that on a motorcycle like on C.H.I.P.S. That would never fly.

Fruit Snacks

I ate some fruit snacks today at work. I opened the packaging up and there were only four actual fruit snacks inside. Today is my birthday too and I just thought that was totally uncalled for.

Shower Curtain

My wife bought a new shower curtain for the bathroom the other day. It's clear. I was in the the shower and noticed how much brighter it was inside then I noticed that there was a clear shower curtain in place. My wife walked in while I was in the shower and started washing her face. I felt like I was in some kind of performance art installation. It was really weird. Plus when you're on the outside looking in it looks like the person in the shower is some kind of weird horror film.

Poison Something Update

I went to the doctor and it's Poison Oak. It hurts, it itches, it's oozing nasty fluid, and unfortunately it did not come from aliens nor has it endowed me with super powers. It's just poison oak and it sucks. The image on the left is my left forearm It's the worst with the infection, yes infection, going all the way around the arm. The image on the right is my right inside upper arm. That infection has seemed to stay put, thankfully. My arms are wrapped up like a mummy now and I'm on antibiotic cream and steroids. There is no side effects for the antibiotic cream; however, I find myself curiously angry all the time at everyone and everything now that I'm taking steroids. Oh and they gave me some anti itching meds but they knock me out almost instantly which is really cool at night, but not so cool when I'm driving.