Daily Loaf

Going to see The Twilight Saga: New Moon? If you aren’t already jumping out of your chair kind of excited, you should be, because we thought it was pretty much amazing…we being me, Nice Amanda and my BFF Mean Amanda. I mean, sure, we might be in our 20s and maybe this isn’t the coolest thing ever for us to love, but we do love it and you should too.

We had the distinct pleasure of checking out the sneak preview last night so if you are into random conversations about werewolves, vampires, “Star Wars for girls” and vampire dildos you should probably listen to the podcast below where the Amandas will educate you on the Twilight saga, what we thought of New Moon and what to look out for, including Jacob’s miraculous back muscles, Edward’s weird nipple, some actual funny scenes and we didn’t even mention the bad wigs! (run-on sentence? Yep, that’s how thrilled I am about this, I have lost all ability type like an adult).

Download the podcast here

And you can check out the real Creative Loafing review here: The Twilight Saga: New Moon: one Twifan’s stream-of-consciousness review

This time of year is ripe for ghosts, ghouls and scary tales, but don’t let witches brew distract you from great inexpensive wines. Halloween screams for some scary and spooktacular vino, and one of my all time favorites to drink on Halloween night is Vampire Cabernet Sauvignon. Vampire — like its counterpart, Dracula Wine — was at one time made in Transylvania, but has now moved operations to Paso Robles; that just bites, no pun intended.

Half the fun of drinking Vampire was the storied location where it was made. Thankfully, the change in venue has not resulted in ghastly juice.

I’m first enticed by the aromas of blood-red, ripe fruit. The scent calls to me and I can’t resist taking a small nibble, er, sip of the garnet colored liquid swirling in the glass. On the first taste I’m hit with a lip smacking, succulent flavor, with a finish leaving me wanting more. Just one thing to do: Read the rest of this entry »

First, Twilight fans were given The Vamp, a pale, sparkly dildo which, according to the website, retains temperature so you can “toss it in the fridge for that authentic experience.”

Naturally, the next step was to turn the teenage melodrama into a porno flick. Given the abundance of XXX parodies released this year, it’s hardly surprising that the insanely popular vampire love story had a go.

This Isn’t Twlight: The XXX Parody was released this weekend. Since a 48-hour digital rental at AEBN.net is only $7.95, a couple girlfriends and I decided to give it a try. It would be good for a laugh, if nothing else. Read the rest of this entry »

Vampires are in.

True Blood, the Charlaine Harris-adapted stories of waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her love affair with small town vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) has garnered enough success for Showtime to have ordered a third season. (Even with Evan Rachel Wood’s cancerous performance.)

The CW has been raising the dead for years: Superman as a television property via Smallville, the concepts of Melrose Place and 90210, Tyra Banks — but Tyra and her ty-rades still weren’t enough undead for the network. New  to the line-up is The Vampire Diaries (cast pictured), probably starring some newcomer’s pecs and the bust of a blonde.

Oh, and there’s Twilight’s Robert Pattinson – you know, that kid from Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire? Maybe you’ve seen him in that.

The vampire has been a longtime mainstay of pop culture, exuding sex appeal and terror, and the comics world has been no stranger to blood suckers. Just ask my Dad.

I remember feeling very connected to him when we’d go comic shopping on Saturdays. He’d pick me up, we’d go to the local flea market (I’m from Ohio) and he’d buy me the comics I wanted, even getting a few of his own. I’d have my stack of X-Men — and my father would purchase issue after issue of Vampirella.

Vampirella, vampire warrior: born either of Draculon, a vampire planet, or of a division of Hell. The character’s backstory has changed in her forty-year tenure as comicdom’s sexiest vampire.

The Vampirella issues soon grew to the height of my father’s Playboy collection, and I realized that Read the rest of this entry »

The week leading up to Skin Two, eyes lit up whenever I mentioned I had extra tickets to Secret Room’s fetish party and medical fashion show at The Castle. Friends were excited to finally have a chance to show off their fancy lingerie or to just ogle fetishists in fishnets. Of course when Saturday rolled around, I stood alone in line to The Castle, fighting my impulse to flee.

Normally I pride myself on going out in public wearing one of my wigs and an outfit that highlights my aerodynamic crotch. But, I wasn’t used to wearing a bedazzled codpiece in front of a crowd that thought this sort of thing was normal. Read the rest of this entry »