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BELLA: It’s tough being the new kid in school! Especially when everyone is so friendly and helpful and interested in me. Why can’t they just leave me alone so I can sit in the corner and cut myself? 
CLASSMATE: You’re awesome, Bella!
BELLA: See what I have to put up with? Hey — who are those hot people over there?
CLASSMATE: Those are the Cullens. They avoid direct sunlight, they don’t eat food, they sleep in coffins in a graveyard, and holy water burns them. I think they’re Canadians.
BELLA: They sure are spectacularly gorgeous.
CLASSMATE: Yes, they are.
BELLA: I mean seriously, those people are BEAUTIFUL. Especially the one who keeps looking at me. Man alive, that guy is stunning. I mean, wow. He is hot buttered seduction on a stick. I’m not interested in him sexually, of course, because sex is dirty, but wow — LOOK AT HIM! Yee-ikes! Hubba hubba! If you don’t mind, I’d like to spend the next 75 pages talking exclusively about how attractive he is, and then bring it up again every paragraph or so for the remaining 400 pages. 
CLASSMATE: Knock yourself out.

A man convinced an underage girl that he was a half-werewolf, half-vampire hybrid.

He also had a guardian dragon.  To prove to police that he was a hybrid, he showed them his canine teeth.  The police responded, "I let him know that all mammals, including humans, have canine teeth."

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Along the lines of what Tammy was talking about, here’s an article about the defanging of Vampires.

I hope that there’s a vampire pendulum, swinging from tortured and broody to bloodthirsty and vicious, because I’m personally of the opinion that Angel knocked the shit out of the tortured and broody, and we need a decade of viciousness to get us back on track.

I mean, it’s a bad sign when they come up with Moonlight, a series about a vampire detective in LA who is good, instead of evil, a scant 3 years after Angel went off the air.  Angel, of course, being about a vampire detective in LA who is good, instead of evil.

Give the filmmaking team of 30 Days of Night a gold star for a genius move: casting Danny Huston as head vampire honcho Marlow. Huston tears up the screen – and a bunch of hairy, frigid Alaskans – in a performance that is textured, intimidating and “Whoah!” inspiring.

And here’s the rest of the good news. The film isn’t nearly as crappy as I thought it would be.

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