We took a camera around Bon Temps again and asked some more of our neighbors their views on vampires - that is, when we could get them to stop gossiping, er, speculating about who is moving into the old Compton place. Small time life is so exciting sometimes.

Anyway, here’s Tara Thornton and Maxine Fortenberry on vampires in Bon Temps:

Seems like every day there’s another news article about how the Vampire Rights Amendment is gaining ground. When the amendment does go up for a vote, it looks like there will probably be enough support to push it through at least the first phase: the Senate. After that, it’s a crapshoot as to whether it will make it through the House and the state votes. We’re not so sure that Senator Bradford is even thinking that far ahead, really. From a political standpoint, he’s asking his Senatorial colleagues to make a huge leap by throwing their support behind him. Once they’re all in the same boat together, they’ll sink or swim together - and if they swim, Bradford’s going to be leading the way. Clever man.

The Dallas, Texas headquarters of the Fellowship of the Sun has apparently been firebombed. The headquarters, which served as the flagship office for the anti-vampire organization, was totally destroyed. At this time no lives are reported to have been lost.

Guess they’ll be moving into their Armageddon Fortress sooner than planned.

One of our talented audience members calling himself “Johnny” sent us this hilarious pro vampire rights amendment cartoon. Johnny seems quite anxious to work with the American Vampire League and has put his design talents to work to create this little ditty.

Thanks for sending this Johnny but be careful out there! I don’t think the Fellowship of the Sun will find this amusing or appropriate for kids. Not to mention how mad they are gonna be when they get that catchy tune stuck in their heads.

Ted Newlin, after a lot more talk about how the Vampire Rights Amendment would sully the blessed Constitution with its evil verbiage, announced the planned construction of the Center for the Study of Vampire Control in Dallas, Texas. Not much is known about this center other than the fact that Newlin says they have a nickname for it - the “Armageddon Fortress.”

Looks like Senator Bradford is trying to garner the momentum of the Tru Blood/AVL rally and put it to use in getting the Vampire Rights Amendment passed. Word on the street is that his talk about the growing support for the amendment isn’t all hot air - it might actually have a chance of passing when it comes to a vote.

Here is episode 13 of the Blood Copy Report, dated August 31, 2008:

Previous versions can always be found on the About page.

Here’s some more footage from the Tru Blood/AVL “Stop the Violence” rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend. First up is a vampire, Christopher Selivan, speaking about equal rights for people and demanding the same for vampires.

We also found some post-rally reactions from various humans and vampires, including someone we haven’t heard from in quite some time - Lamar, the vampire king of California! Glad to see he’s doing okay.

Here’s a little bit of coverage from the Tru Blood/AVL rally in Washington, D.C. this weekend. Senator Bradford was in fine form. Looks like it was quite a success and fears about it breaking out into violence were unfounded. We’ll see if we can find more reports and post them soon.

Coming right on the heels of the announcement about the “Stop the Violence” rally next week is news of more vampire/human conflict. It appears that a human in Jacksonville, Florida staked a vampire. The assailant’s wife had just left him in order to pursue a fangophile lifestyle. What a sad waste of a life.

And even sadder, Reverend Ted Newlin of the Fellowship of the Sun seems to think that killing a vampire doesn’t count because a vampire’s already dead.