August 10, 2007 (SciFi Wire) -- HBO has officially picked up the vampire series True Blood from Six Feet Under's Alan Ball, based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire novel series, Variety reported.

Ball will executive-produce and act as show runner for True Blood, which is expected to go into production this fall. HBO is still ironing out an episodic order and airdate. Ball wrote and directed the pilot and has already penned several more episodes.

The pilot stars Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer and Brook Kerr. It is set in small-town Louisiana and follows the world of vampires, who are able to co-exist with humans by drinking a Japanese-manufactured synthetic blood. The show contains a dose of humor alongside the horror.

Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress who winds up falling for vampire Bill Compton (played by Moyer) and who has powers of her own. Carrie Preston and Michael Raymond-James round out the cast.

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I Am Legend's Junk Science: Hollywood sci-fi vs. reality

In the new blockbuster I Am Legend, virologist Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the sole survivor of a man-made plague that has wiped out all of humankind -- and turned those who didn't die into creepy, vampire-like mutants.

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Refusal

I'm not really sure how to say it,
and I'm not quite positive I mean it,
but it's been resting there
in the back of my head
and I really don't know how to sleep.
My attention is just so far off,
and nothing can shake me out of it,
it's like I'm caught in here
waiting for something unknown
can you show me which way the exit is?
My existance means nothing anymore,
and you're constantly nudging my back,
I wish you would just stop it
quit trying to push me forward

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Diseases Related to Vampirism

Xeroderma Pigmentosum: Many diseases have been linked -- usually incorrectly -- to folkloric vampirism, and here is yet another one. One question answered by the following was, "Is xeroderma pigmentosum like albinism?"

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Hopeless

I don't feel
I can't think
I'm lost in a silence
That only breathing breaks
I can't sleep
I can't dream
I want someone
To be here with me
I can't write
I can't move
I want to ask
But my voice can't be heard
I can't cry
I can't tell
I'm stuck in a world
Where only pain is my help
I can't stop
I can't yell
I can't breathe
To cry out for help
I can't hear
I can't see
I've gone much too far
I need help

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Bad Teeth Are Good Business for Local Dent Tech's Bewitching Futures

October 10, 1996 (Peter Gilstrap / Phoenix New Times) - It takes a certain brand of optimism and foresight to make a small-market concept work, a certain drive and, of course, the essential ability to recognize a need and fill it. Before a savvy, upward mover even begins to address such concepts as outsourcing, retrenchment and severe lower-pricing to shed high-cost capacity, he must be able to pick the right product at the right moment. Such a man is Rod Jakubik. His product is fangs.

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