I was talking to a cashier at my local Trader Joe’s while he rang up my order.  Our conversation eventually moved on to movies, so I asked him if he had seen “Skyfall”–if you haven’t, see it.  It’s that good–He said he had, and had liked it.

He then mentioned that he was really excited about the upcoming ‘Twilight’ film, which caused me to break into laughter.  You have to understand that I haven’t seen any of them (nor do I have any intention to), but when I heard that the vampires, under certain circumstances, sparkled, I knew right then that ‘Twilight’ wasn’t for me.

My vampires are tortured creatures, sometimes with the most evil of intentions, sometimes not; though they are always fighting the urge, the desire to indulge their thirst.  The cause of their condition may be viral, spread by blood, or they may be the spawn of an angel fallen from Heaven’s grace.

Though what vampires never, ever do, is sparkle.

I also thought that I’d mention that vampires aren’t capable of sexual reproduction. This is because they’re either demonic in nature, or dead.  It also makes no sense because  it defeats the whole ’spreading vampirism by bite’ thing.