Click image to listen.When the heck did vampires get so darn cuddly? The two Mikes ponder that most ancient of questions in Mario Acevedo's The Nympho of Rocky Flats. Is it possible that Count Chocula is the prototype of all modern vampire detectives or is some other cereal to blame? The guys find the book annoying but they talk about it anyway and ponder what it would be like to take a Short Course In Just Being Evil.
If you want to read a good gumshoe vampire story read the Vampire Papers instead!
IT CERTAINLY IS COCKTAIL TIME!
Kundalini Noir
To one Bottle of Pilsner Beer
add five dashes of your favorite Tabasco Sauce.
Drink up! Chin, chin.
END MUSIC: What I Need by Gangstagrass on the album Gangstagrass. You can download the album for free from here.
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The character of a vampire that won't scruple to drink the blood that s/he needs seems to be the same ethical dilemma that humans have in reconciling their recognition of the lives of animals with their need to kill and eat them. Maybe that is part of the Fall From Innocence, the knowledge that we live through the suffering and death of other beings. So Angel and his ilk represent us humans, in all our moral angst, as seen from the livestock pens.
...so actually, the change is from vampire as alien to vampire as us.
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