Countdown to TRUE BLOOD

Okay, it's just one more week, and one more Sunday, and True Blood, the HBO series based on friend and fellow Femme Fatale Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse mysteries premieres! I don't know about you, but I fell hard about five pages into Dead Until Dark, when it was revealed that the vampire's name was not Antoine, not Basile, not Langford, but...Bill. I've written elsewhere about why I admire Sookie as a hero, and I'm hoping if you don't know the books already, you'll go out and get 'em. And if you don't have HBO...well, you've still got a week.

The chance to watch a story I've been following eagerly for years transformed into a visual medium by a director like Alan Ball? I can't wait!