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FEED YOUR NEED: Drop of True Blood Thursdays

17 Jun 2010 | By Justine

The blood sucking fiends, uh, I mean FANS on Twitter have what you need, once again, and just in time for the third season of HBO’s True Blood. Recognizing that so many vamp lovers get whipped into a fine frenzy for a regular bloody fix when the show airs each summer, they’ll be hosting Drop of true Blood Thursdays during the run of the season.

If you hit their site every Thursday at 9pm / 8pm CT during season 3, you’ll be able to watch, and play in, the first interactive social theater.

If you want to get bitten every Thursday, here’s how to do it:

Got to the site every Thursday night at 9pm / 8pm CT during True Blood Season 3, and they’ll do a Drop – a new original storyline written by the True Blood Twitter crew. They’ll bring to life a scene not seen in the previous week’s episode; something that the fans might have wished to see, from behind the on screen action.
To accommodate the fans and the attention, they have created – virtually speaking – a brand new stage for viewers to not only watch, but truly be a part of the show. It’s live interactive social theater, a space where one can not only watch the story play out, but get into the action. Every response, comment, and OMG will become part of the storyline and may eventually affect the outcome of Thursday night storylines to come. To be a part of Drop of True Blood Thursday, viewers simply need to go to the site, login and join the fun.

If you want to hear it, straight from the waitress, check out SookieBonTemp’s blog about the new virtual theatre, too.

Go get bloody, have some fun and let your friends know, too – because one good bite deserves another.

For a look back at the True Blood crew from Twitter:
Bites for Blood

The Teeth Behind the Tweets

True Blood Fans Takin’ it to the Tweets

re-published from Geek Speak Blog with permission

Counting Down to the Return of True Blood: June 13, 2010

29 May 2010 | By Justine

As half the inhabited world seems to know, True Blood returns to HBO on Sunday, June 13, 2010. As a little teaser (because who doesn’t appreciate a tease that eventually delivers, right?) HBO has posted a few mini episodes on their site. Below, one of my favorite teasers. To see my other fave, you’ll have to venture over to the HBO site. Because….well, HBO isn’t the only site that gives good tease.
While you’re there, check out the other fun extras they’ve provided for us Trubies, as we await the return of our favorite film vamps, with baited blood.

Minisode: Eric & Pam

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SotD: Phineas & Ferb-they do it all!

30 Jan 2010 | By Justine

I sometimes pine for the days of old, when Saturday mornings meant something. To be exact, they meant cartoons. Lots of great cartoons. I tend to think that kids of today don’t have it as good as we did when I was a kid. Our cartoon characters had to fight crime uphill, in evil-scientist created monsoons, in brightly colored tights and capes…both ways. And we liked it like that.

Luckily for me, a wise beyond his years three year old (my nephew) introduced me to the joy that is Phineas & Ferb. It airs on the Disney channel and the animation is charming and fresh; the pop culture references are witty; and the stories are funny and just odd enough to appeal to viewers of any age (seriously; my Dad, who is many, many years beyond the age of consent, watches P&F. If you don’t believe me, just ask him. But I digress…) The basic story revolves around the antics and Phineas and Ferb, stepbrothers, and their older sister, Candace. The sub stories feature hilarious, absurb spy-foils-evil-nemesis stories about the constant attempts by Dr. Doofenshmirtz to control the Tri-State area, and Perry the Platypus’ daring-do foiling of said plans.

The truly inspired element of this show, though, is the music. Bowling for Soup (very gifted, tongue-in-your-cheek musicians) does the theme song, Today is Gonna be a Great Day. The creators of the show have gotten two Emmy nods for the music, to date. This show also brings several different media geek gods and demi-gods together to do voices and music. Of cult geek note, Richard O’Brien, who created The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and starred as Riff Raff lends his voice to the kids’ father. Gitchee Gitchee Goo is the song that cemented songs as a key element in the show. It was first heard in season 1, in the episode Flop Starz; an extended version is in a later episode, the Musical Cliptastic Countdown, wherein Gitchee Gitchee Goo was voted the number one song of the series. As the story goes, the PtB (that’s Powers that Be) at Disney were so enamored of the song, they wanted at least one song/musical number in every episode that followed.

So, for my own Saturday morning enjoyment, and hopefully your’s, too, here are a few of my fave musical numbers. If you fall in Gitchee Gitchee Goo with the music, too, you can even pick up the soundtrack and sing along whenever the urge to do it all hits you.

Gitchee Gitchee Goo – the song that really got them rolling

When You’re Small – for those that don’t know me personally, just know that this song has a special place in my heart…yes, I’m short.

Music Makes Us Better – I think you can see why I picked this one for todays squee.

Possibly my all time favorite P&F song….Evil Love… maniacally laugh along with me…