True Blood seems to be causing all sorts of controversy with Season 4. Not only did HBO let Alan Ball turn the infamous shower scene from book 4, Dead To The World by author Charlaine Harris, into a scene from Narnia, but he seems intent on turning Sookie Stackhouse into a less than savoury character. Last week we saw in episode 8, "Spellbound," Sookie's shower turn into a snow covered field complete with a double bed for her and Eric Northman to get busy in. This was a result of a V induced hallucination. Not happy Alan Ball! Now in episode 9, "Let's Get Out Of Here," we find that Sookie has ingested MORE vampire blood! This time Alan Ball found it important to show a threesome between Sookie, Eric and Bill Compton, who is an ex-boyfriend. Fans are getting more than a little bit concerned about what is being inferred about her character. I wonder what episode 10 will bring?
FIBP releases its first print book: the fantastic Black Numbers by Dean Frank Lappi. If you like horror and fantasy, you’ll love this book about magic that comes from sexuality and manipulating numbers.
With only 86 days to go until the premiere of Breaking Dawn, Part 1, Twihards are starting to get a little frenzied! Not only is Breaking Dawn an international success for Stephenie Meyers, it is a boon for the franchise industry. Already you can add a countdown widget to your computer as well as calenders, Comic Con cards and the offical T Shirt. The movie comes to theaters 18th November 2011 (or 11.18.11 as the merchandise claims), so make sure you get your seats booked early!
Hurricane Irene intensified this morning in the Bahamas, reaching major category 3 status, with peak sustained winds of 115 mph. Hurricane warnings continue for all of the Bahamas where 6-12 inches of rain are expected in addition to hurricane force winds..
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Irene is headed northwest at 12 mph towards the East Coast, but the latest guidance has continued to trend eastward, more offshore.
Irrespective of whether the storm makes a direct hit at particular coastal locations from North Carolina to New England, it may still bring torrential rain, coastal flooding and damaging winds.
The storm might reach category 4 levels with peak winds near 135 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
As hurricane Irene nears the east cost, the Red Cross is encouraging Americans to make blood donations ahead of time. In these financially strained times, people sometimes are not able to give monetarily to charitable organizations such as the Red Cross. The Red Cross is asking for blood donations ahead of the storm, to build up a store that may be needed after the hurricane hits. Visit www.redcrossblood.org for more information.
Gaddafi’s seat of power in Tripoli seems to have fallen after rebel fighters swarmed into his compound.
The Libyan leader and his family, however, had already disappeared. If they spent the last days of their rule inside their walled citadel, Bab al-Aziziya, they had since escaped, possibly through the labyrinth of tunnels that lie beneath the compound.
With Gaddafi's fate unknown, nobody could say for certain whether the bloodshed was over for good. In the streets beyond the compound, gunfire continued to ring out, although it was unclear whether it was a result of continued skirmishes or celebrations. There were also reports of sporadic looting as darkness fell.
Government strongholds remained in the coastal town of Sirte, Gaddafi's birthplace, and the southern desert city of Sabha, and there was no word last night on whether his supporters would carry on fighting. But the fall of Gaddafi's fortress-like city within a city, and the trampling of his likeness under the feet of Libya's new rulers, represented a symbolic moment of victory after a six-month civil war.
After the civil war which has raged in Libya for the last 6 months, the country will literally have to construct itself from the ground up once the fighting is over. A transitional council has been set up to assist with that transition.
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