Sorry about that !  I messed up that spoiler thing.   

... to practice beating the hell out of Trask!!(I hope I did this right)

FYI..I already made reservations for the Renaissance Hotel in Elizabeth New Jersey. August 15th I believe.  Bad timing though as the new school year/teaching starts.  Oh well its now or never for me as my family may not want me to drag them next year.  Got all the info from Marie Wallace's website (thank God for Marie's Website.) I think I also picked up info from JF's website too.  In any case, marie's has all the stuff on the festival.

Happy Birthday to KLS my favorite character (along with JF) on DS.  Many, Many more beautiful lady!

When was Angelique truly obedient?  Please! How could she? It was in no way in her nature. She was obsessive-compulsive, jealous, hard to get along with, self-serving, and only cared for her own pleasures.  She was also determined to get people out of the way who crossed her path.  The only time i kinda knew she was sort of helpful was [spoiler]during the 1897 storyline when she helped Barnabas with the doppleganger.[/spoiler] Other than that I figure she would not be a loving and devoted wife.  Who could live with that kinda stress?  Barnabas Collins?  No way.   And if he for any reason looked at another woman?  God help him!

No. My mom never cautioned me about Barnabas and his women as I am sure she would have wanted to be one of them.  She is 74 and still thinks JF is hot. In actuality, my dauhters are reading Twilight and they know what healthy and unhealthy relationships are because we have been communicating about these situations for years now.  My girls are in high school and pretty headstrong about things dealing with the opposite sex.  And no disrespect to Twilight but it stands no where near the brilliance of DS.  Think about it..this show ended 37 years ago and heck it still is going strong with the fans both young and old.  That is amazing. 

Well, This past summer, in between teaching assignments, I read Twilight not knowing it was geared for my junior high students as well as high school students..I was just browsing for some vampire material. Initially I found it fairly enjoyable until the mushiness of the characters kept interupting the storyline( more than 3/4 of the way into the book) so I did what I never do.. I stopped reading the book.  When school started, OMG, all my students were reading it.  My own daughters, who give me such a hard time about my fascination with Barnabas and DS, now cannot put the book down..they are into the second book and it seems soon into the third and fourth book.  Let me tell you Edward Cullen has nothing on Barnabas.  Again what is this fascination with vampires?  My own family cannot see that their fascination with Edward is the same thing as my love of the Collins family.  Is their a connection?  Cullen/Collins?    Many of Edward's characterisitcs are no different from Barnabas'.  Anyway as I always say Long Live DS!!