Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks 97
gyrogeerloose writes "In a column in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune, Peter Rowe makes a connection between the popularity of horror movie genres and the political party in the White House. A Republican administration presides over a period of zombie movies while a Democrat in the Oval Office brings on a cycle of vampire movies. Why? Possibly because the two genres 'are really competing parables about class warfare.' Hmmmm, maybe. On the other hand, it might just be a coincidence." Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.
The obvious question (Score:4, Informative)
Call him Barry (Score:2, Informative)
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What amazes me is that most people don't know that Senator Barack Obama was affectionately known to his friends as "Barry" during high school. My CEO's wife knew him immediately when he started his campaign, and was quoted as saying "Why is Barry on TV?" when she saw him announce his candidacy. That's not the message that peple got through the mass-media moron-tube though.
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Apparently he was known as Barry before he become famous.
Not so much a hook as Barack Hussien Obama as some would like us to know him as.
So to the US's new head guy, Barry. /salute
Re:Finally (Score:3, Informative)
If idle isn't dropped, then it needs to be an option in my profile.
It is. Help&Preferences -> Your Preferences -> Index -> Sections
Re:Return of Blackula? (Score:2, Informative)
It's not a Venture Brothers reference; Blacula is a real film from 1972: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068284/ [imdb.com]. There's a sequel, too.
It's hard to tell with a show like that, but you can be safe in saying that just about everything in there is a reference to something. They wouldn't have a character that hunts blaculas if the blacula precedent hadn't been set previously.
Bush/Cheney were Chaotic Evil (Score:3, Informative)
In D&D terminology, Bush/Cheney were clearly Chaotic Evil. Some of their advisers and henchpersons like John Yoo may have been Lawful Evil or Neutral Evil, and their main enemies were probably Lawful Evil, as well as the Neutral and Good folks who were collateral damage. Seems to be a good environment for Zombies.
Vampire movies sometimes have vamps who are protagonists, certainly since The Vampire Lestat novels. And then you get the occasional Vampires vs. Werewolves sort of movie, which was obviously a literary reference to the Cold War...