Floyd Kemske's darkly comic sendup of corporate evil goes right to the hell of the matter, taking us inside a failing biotech company as a new boss is brought into restructure the organization. The new boss, however, is both literally and figuratively a vampire with a taste for other people's blood as well as their ideas. Despite the supernatural twist, Kemske captures perfectly the real human existential discomfort of life in the bizarre social microcosm that is the modern corporation.

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Posted by Vladimir Wed, 03/21/2007 - 21:04

 

The Bridge

Perhaps the most iconic image from Legend is the ravaged Brooklyn bridge, its middle span destroyed by a bomb to quarantine New York in one of the film's crucial action sequences. "The middle span is gone up to the towers, and from the towers on, you can still see the suspension cables, the vertical cables and the deck [from the towers to the shores].

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I Am

I am forever searching for what I do not have and can not know.
I run lonely out into the cold dark night in search of that most elusive of treasures.

Seek me not, find me never it whispers.
And my soul can not comprehend.

I am eternally damned to this meaningless and conflicting existance.

For I have no peace.

In the dark of the night, in the thrill of the hunt, in the blood of the prey, I have no peace.

And it shines like a dagger before me.
Bright, bold, tempting.

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Crosses & garlic not included

June 10, 2007 (NY Daily News / Clare Trapasso) -- Scour the Romanian countryside for vampires in time for the 110th anniversary of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." The summer version (July 10-17) of the popular Dracula Tour takes vampire hunters to several spooky Transylvania locales, including the Snagov Island grave of Vlad Tepes - aka Vlad the Impaler, the violent ruler said to have inspired the Dracula character.

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The Crimson Quill [vol. 2001]

A collection of poetry and prose submitted to VO in 2001.

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Women in the Vampire World

There are essentially three roles of women in the vampire world. Women may be victims or vampires themselves. The third level of attachment to the vampire world (VW) is an outside attachment, and that belongs to the women who are mere observers, such as anyone who reads a vampire book and is drawn to it.

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