the age differences always did seem peculiar..Barnabas to me looked older than his cousin.errrrr...uncle Jeremiah from the 1795 storyline...and the Barnabas-Sarah siblings did seem to be a stretch. ok..think when we see Josettes grave it shows her to be about 21 when she died...so, do we assume that Barnabas was maybe 25-30?. But when we see his first appearence in 1967 after his long rest, (still wouldnt have wanted to be the first to open that coffin , shewwwww), it seems that he was close to the age of Roger, maybe early 40s? even Tony Peterson commented about  Carolyn being in "that old mans arms"...I guess being confined to a coffin for 172 years ages you maybe 17 years . I see, 10 confinement years =1 aging year......as for 1897, its a bit more believeable about the 4 siblings, although quite a difference from the 2 oldest and youngest . They did a pretty good job though on Jerry Lacy and aging him, really didnt think twice about him and Minerva being married, or of another one he wants to get to know better.....

today was one of those episodes that endeared most of us to just how cheesey dark shadows can be. First of all, we have the dashing hero Tim Shaw, rushing into the burning room. but it looked like only half the room was burning, as we see him put a coat over his head and not one flame to be seen. Then our hero, amidst the flames, grabs up nora, and in what looks like he has a corn cob rammed up his rear, exits the burning room in about as horribly contorted face as you could imagine.  Then as they are far enough away from the fire to turn back and look at the inferno, that scene was worse than any 1950s japanese Godzilla movie. And finally, the 3 of them arrive back at collinwood, none the worse for their ordeal, cept for Laura being exhausted, probably from watching Shaw tote nora the entire way, and the foyer is filled with smoke....gotta love it!

With all this talk about vampires, i cant help but think of Ann Rice and her vampire chronicles.. I knew that to become a vampire, one must become a victim of a vampire(and in most cases, drink from the vampire). But, i had always wondered how vampirism had came to be...In Bram Stokers dracula(by Coppola i believe) we see Vlad cursing God, sticking a sword into the cross, blood gushing, him drinking and saying he would rise from his own death to avenge his wifes death(hmmmmmm)...if everyone that ever cursed god became vampires, the woods would be full of them...And in Stokers novel, i dont think they ever explain how he came to be.. The Novel "Queen of the Damned" gives an interesting detail as to how the first Vampire came into being(i dont know about the movie, heard it was a pile of doooooooo)...It seems now i am comparing all other vampire related works with how She wrote hers, cause at least she took the time to give a detailed account into how they came to be...I have also heard that her "interview" was loosely based on ds, as William H Loomis had Barnabas locked in that coffin..

i find myself cringing everytime she starts that singing??..one word for it ((((ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH))))

jenny singing----------><-----tripwire

hey, at that time of year, i believe the 6 week saratoga meeting is going on. I have always heard that its a beautiful track with great racing, gonna go there sometime. I dont know what would be more fun, hitting a big trifecta or meeting this knucklehead bunch

get your butt back here Vam, no need in depriving yourself of something you obviously enjoy so much  because of a misunderstanding or whatever.

in the 30`s, universal studio came out with some classic monster movies, a part of my childhood was spent watching these movies, and others that werent so classic  B horror i think they would be called...Who was your favorite monster ?  We had the Frankenstein monster....Dracula.......The Wolfman.....and The Mummy as the big 4....and others i cant recall....(scariest scene i can recall was when Larry Talbot transforms into the wolfman...i dont know why, but that scared the %#&* out of me.)