May 23rd, 2011 by Brian White
I got into the television show True Blood much the same way I do with most everything else in my life. I’m a sucker for brilliant marketing. I’m a salesman’s wet dream I think you get the picture. Although I’m a huge fan of vampire lore, it was the seductive lips dripping with blood on […]
March 4th, 2011 by Blu-ray Brian
There’s nothing like them, is there? Vampires, I mean. It seems like the world simply can’t get enough of them. From Abraham Lincoln (see here) to the True Blood phenomenon at Comic-Con (see here), vampires are everywhere. They’re everywhere you look. They live amongst us. So don’t fight them. Embrace them! So anyway, just in […]
July 25th, 2010 by Brian White
For the second straight year in a row now, Ballroom 20 was packed full beyond capacity with fans of Alan Ball’s HBO series, True Blood. Even the peeps that waited for over 3 hours outside the Ballroom were not able to get in. Diehard True Blood fans suffered through preceding morning/afternoon panels just to get […]
July 30th, 2009 by Blu-ray Brian
I remember at last year’s Comic-Con extravaganza seeing all these True Blood signs and Tru Blood advertisements, not knowing what they were really for. I just figured out it was some kind of brilliant marketing scheme, which it was of course. I thought they were for a real beverage that actually existed. Was I ever […]