Anita Blake
Anita Blake
Top 10 TV Shows of All Time
Here is my list of my ten all time favorite TV shows, in no particular order. These are the shows
that I could watch at anytime. I'll try to keep it fun by telling you what I didn't like about
them and their characters, some great lines from the shows, maybe some interesting things you
didn't know, and more - anything but just the usual top ten list.
1. The Rockford Files
Cool theme song. Cool car (gold Firebird, which crashed innumerable times). Great cast with
Rocky, Angel & others. Cool trailer on Malibu beach with a handy bar for rendezvous and drops,
etc. Great cases, mostlly believable. Lots of good guest stars, like Lyndsey Wagner at her most
beautiful. I've said all this without even mentioning the lead: James Garner, the consummate cool
actor.
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
Now-dated answering machine from which we hear something amusing before the theme song kicks in.
James Garner's brother Jack in cameo roles as, often, a bailiff, a bartender and the like.
Great line:
Angel: "Just do (kill) Jimmy, and I'll spread the word (tell what might happen to others should
they doublecross these thugs like Jimmy did)."
2. Gunsmoke
What a great cast, with Matt, Doc, Kitty, Chester, Festus, Sam and others. This show began as
thirty minutes but was expanded to an hour. Some of the early shows were tightly scripted and
regular works of art. Ran twenty years (1955-75).
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
Early on, old Doc was often drunk as a skunk, but he sobered up as the years passed. The Bull's
Head saloon as a rougher alternative to Miss Kitty's Longbranch. The house near the pond, which
was often used in scenes set out of town.
Great line:
"Becasue we're gonna bushwhack em," as said by a very early and very un-Matt Matt, to Chester,
when Chester asked him why they were hiding out in a cabin with some thugs nearby.
3. The Andy Griffith Show
This show has always been very therapeutic for me to watch . . . just something about it I can't
put my finger on; let's just say that if it's an episode I've already seen, I don't care, I'll
watch it again, because I just want to be in Mayberry, and it doesn't matter to me what they're
doing there.
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
Drunk Otis having access to the keys as he's locked up weekly for being lit up. Andy being a lot
more "countrified" in the earlier episodes, his pants sometimes stuck clumsilly down his nerdy
boots. Barber Floyd being nearly mad . . . as in crazy. Goober saying "Yo." Gomer saying "Tell
'em Gomer says hey." Very fake downtown Mayberry drawn as background mural outside the courthouse
door. Different love interests for Andy: Elinor Donahue, Joanne Moore (Tatum O'Neal's mom), Julie
Adams, Anita Whatever who played Helen for a long run. (I was more of a Thelma Lou fan; she
looked remarkably like Olivia De Havilland.)
Memorable lines:
Goober: "Judy, Judy, Judy."
Gomer: "Shazam!"
4. M*A*S*H
Great ensemble cast. We've all seen it, so let me just blurb about the characters:
Hawkeye: Great except for when there was too much Hawkeye, like when he was trying to stay awake
by babbling to this Korean family unfortunate enough to be housing him. Don't get me wrong - I
love the role.
Trapper:
Annoying to me, a bit too precious with the raised eyebrows and shoulder shrugs.
B.J.:
Better before he got the mustache, after which, he seemd to have a chip on his shoulder as
if unsure of his manhood should anyone get beneath the cheese of the mustache.
Klinger:
Better before he became "Christianized" - I think you know what I mean if you've watched; just a
tad too nice, a bit too eager to please.
Hot Lips:
I surrender. Lead me to Margaret in her tight sweater and tight britches, especially when her
hair was parted in the middle, and before she got too thin and lost most of the Hot Lipsishness.
There is, however, a nasty scene with her, when she and Charles were eating some canned bird and
they became sick because of it - her teeth were quite yellow and she looked kind of gross gorging
herself on it.
Father Mulcahey:
The excitement level dropped a foot when he was given a line. Sorry.
Charles E. Winchester:
Great role; very noble at times ... but justy barely, as when he admitted some general molested
Hot Lips and not the other way around.
Radar:
The Zen and Taoist center of the cast, always trying to hide his poor deformed left hand, often
behind a clipboard, as if any of us would think anything of it. (Pat Hingle, who guested as
General Daniel Webster Tucker, was missing a pinky and didn't try to hide it.)
Henry Blake:
Laugh riot; could have cried when he was killed off.
Colonel Sherman T. Potter:
One of the most annoying roles ever, one of those old grumps who thinks he's a natural treasure
and that people want him to be regurgitating arid cliches. Pretty much played the same dumb role
in Dragnet (see below).
5. Alias Smith & Jones
Great show because of the charming leads, Pete Duel & Ben Murphy. Pete, who committed suicide
during the run of the show, was replaced by Roger Davis, who did the original narration of the
lead-in theme. Mr. Davis wasn't nearly as likeable as Mr. Duel, though he was adequate in the
role. There were some great guests, like Burl Ives, and some beauties like Michelle Lee, Claudine
Longet, Susan Strasberg & Sally Fields. The show is said to be a takeoff on the popularity of the
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid film.
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
The promise of amnesty for their crimes always being just on the horizon but somehow always
beyond reach; the recurring Devil's Hole gang.
6. Law & Order
We all know this show that has run for years and has the most twisting and interesting plots, so
let's get down to the good stuff: the rating of the female ADAs as to their attractiveness. (The
list below shows the best as being #1.)
1. Angie Harmon - that voice, the withering looks with which she could emasculate any male perp,
her model looks, & heck, she comes from Texas!
2. Carey Lowell - the word adorable was created for this fresh-faced, earnest Bond girl; if she's
good enough for Richard Gere, she's good enough for you.
3. Jill Hennessey - another model-quality gal with a husky voice, the exqusite bobbed hair; oh,
how brutally they killed her off!
4. Annie Parisse - maybe the most beautiful of all, but her run seemed brief to me; related by
marriage to Sam Waterston in real life, I believe; another of them killed off, she choking on her
own vomit.
5. Alana de la Garza - haven't seen that much of this girl, but she's a stunner with sculpted
features.
6. Elisabeth Röhm - oh, dear, this girl was nice and pretty enough but, whereas she was
attractive, the other girls mentioned above were absolutely magnetic; it's probably the blond
hair, and she looks to me pretty much like every other blond.
7. Dragnet
This cop show was so earnest and corny, it was wonderful, and I couldn't take my eyes off it. I
only had much exposure to the later (reborn) color issue of it beginning in the sixties. I think
producer and star Jack Webb was trying to do the LAPD a big favor with this show, back in that
crazy era, in trying to show that cops weren't so bad; but it was often pretty heavy-handed
stuff, with the hippies being pretty much evil and the bad cop being as rare as platinum. Lots of
square and cornball drug use allusions. Be warned, the grating Harry Morgan (who just turned 94!)
was his sidekick (see M*A*S*H note above).
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
Jack Webb barely moving his arms as he walked stiff as a board. "Just the facts," "Howzat?" Watch
for Kent McCord as officer Jim Reed, without Martin Milner, of Adam 12. Watch for Bobby Troup (as
a bartender, perp, etc.), who penned song classic "Route 66" and was married to Jack Webb's ex-
wife Julie London, with whom Bobby later starred in Emergency.
8. The Waltons
This show was born from the excellent and now classic Christmas movie The Homecoming. Seven kids
living in 1930s-40s Virginia with their parents and paternal grandparents. Lots of heartwarming
episodes. Slow episodes always concerned a moody Olivia. I had a big crush on Erin! My favorite
episode was about a class reunion of John's (Ralph Waite's) high school class, in which several
of his old classmates gave the warmest tributes to John; John was my favorite character.
Gimmicks and or quirks, etc.:
The old family truck, which seemed to be held together with chewing gum and chicken wire. Daddy's
(Ralph Waite's) old longjohns looked like they might stand up by themselves if he ever took them
off and stood them in a corner. The woodenness of the replacement John Boy when Richard Thomas
left the show. Did you know that Mama (Michael Learned) wasn't really old enough to be John Boy's
(Richard Thomas's) mother in real life, because there were only twelve years' difference in their
ages?
9. Dallas
This wasn't just a show around my house on Friday nights, it was an event! We would pop popcorn
and all gather around the set. Let me just blurb about some of the characters:
J.R.: Who shot this guy? As evil as a lead came, but he had a deep sense of family . . . unless,
of course, that family member stood in his way of something he wanted. Someone please set him up
with a quenching bourban and branch, please.
Jock: This patriarch always seemed to be way too rugged for the sissy settings, like breakfasting
around the pool; one would rather expect to see him sniffing out an oil well or busting a bronco.
He died too young, taking some of the heart of the show with him.
Bobby: The pretty boy. Too nice until he learned to get right down in the dirt with J.R. Got to
do love scenes with a youthful and exquisite Victoria Principle as Pam. Aside: My family and I
sat next to his table at a Louise Mandrell concert, and she pointed him out in the audience and
had him take the stage and do a number with her; and he obliged her, good sport that he was. His
Buddhism helped him cope with the brutal, real-life murder of his parents.
Pam: Tons of sex appeal but needy and moody.
Sue Ellen: Beautiful ex Miss Texas. Drunk. Would hook up with Cliff Barnes & Dusty Farlow to get
back at a cheating J.R. I thought shows with her battling the bottle were snoozers. Had sexy
May/September fling with Chris Atkins (as Peter).
Miss Ellie: Boring character. You will wonder what Jock and Digger Barnes . . . or anybody, for
that matter, ever saw in her. Could kill the excitment level of any episode with one of her
audible sighs.
Lucy: Sex kitten deluxe. Drove the much older Ray Krebs wild in the early days of the show, by
seducing him in his truck as he drove her to high school, which led to their locating the nearest
hayloft. She was built like a brick dollhouse and she knew it. Scenes she was in seemed to have
a potential for fireworks, because she might say something that could be embarrassing to just
about anyone.
10. The Situation Room
I better list a news program before you know I'm a complete idiot. The hard-working Wolf Blitzer
hosts this show. Grouchy Jack Cafferty is always amusing.
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what are some books like the anita blake series by laurent k hamilton?
I have read the entire series and I loved it. I'm looking for another book or series involving a lot of paranormal subjects. I've read the Vampire Academy series, The House of Night series, and the Twilight Saga.
You might like the Dark Hunter books by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Or my friend Jennifer Stevenson's books starting with the Brass Bed.
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Anita Blake Mythology $71.7 In the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novels, author Laurell K. Hamilton has developed a detailed mythology. Her series is an alternate history that assumes that the supernatural is real, and that vampires, lycanthropes, and other supernatural beings live alongside humans in a society that otherwise resembles our own. Although the existence of supernatural beings has been public knowledge for centuries in the Anitaverse (see select references below), its history has otherwise unfolded so identically to that of the real world that the series contains occasional references to the popular culture of the 1990s, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the O.J. Simpson trial, and others. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 86 Publication Date: 2010/04/29 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.20 inches |
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5 $39.99 "Long before Stephenie Meyer"s Twilight series and Charlaine Harris"s Sookie Stackhouse novels, [there was] sexy, strong-willed vampire hunter Anita Blake."-USA TodayThe first five Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels in the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestselling series. Guilty Pleasures The Laughing Corpse Circus of the Damned The Lunatic Café Bloody Bones |
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Anita Blake Vampire Hunt Circus Damned #1 Graphic Novel $16.99 Anita Blake Vampire Hunt Circus Damned #1 Graphic Novel. Written by Laurell K. Hamilton and Jess Ruffner. Penciled by Ron Lim. Cover by Brett Booth. An all-new mystery for America's favorite necromancer! The last year has been a non-stop rollercoaster ride for Anita Blake, and it's nearing Halloween - peak time when you raise the dead for a living. Now, the police need Anita's help investigating a vampire killing that left the victim with three unique sets of bite marks, despite the fact vampires are normally solitary hunters. The attack must be the work of a master vampire - and with only two in St. Louis, one being Jean Claude, Anita knows right where to start. Venturing to Jean Claude's Circus of the Damned, Anita is confronted by a group of shape-shifters, a new master vampire named Yasmine and a giant snake that might be a god! It's all-new, high-octane action in this entry into the beloved Anita Blake universe! 120 pages. Ages 18 and up. |
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Anita Blake: Circus of the Damned 2 By Hamilton, Laurell K. $24.43 Anita questions her knowledge about vampires after a body with multiple vampire wounds on it tries to come back to life, faces off with a vampire that is immune to her, and helps a rookie animator control undead beings. Author: Hamilton, Laurell K. Series Title: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter : Circus of the Damned Subtitle: The Ingenue Publication Date: 2011/09/21 Number of Pages: 120 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.25 Width: 6.25 Height: 9.75 |
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Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 1 By Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ritchie, Stacie M./ Ruffnerbooth, Jess $19.29 In a world where vampires, zombies and werewolves have been declared legal citizens of the United States, Anita Blake is an animator a profession that involves raising the dead for mourning relatives. The Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter stories blend gothic fantasy with elements of horror and romance. Author: Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ritchie, Stacie M./ Ruffnerbooth, Jess Subtitle: Guilty Pleasures Publication Date: 2008/07/23 Number of Pages: 124 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.50 Width: 6.50 Height: 10.25 |
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter By Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ritchie, Stacie/ Ruffnerbooth, Jess $37.23 Author: Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ritchie, Stacie/ Ruffnerbooth, Jess Series Title: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Subtitle: Guilty Pleasures Publication Date: 2009/10/28 Number of Pages: 320 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 7.75 Height: 11.25 |
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter By Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ruffner, Jessica/ Lim, Ron (ILT) $37.23 Author: Hamilton, Laurell K./ Ruffnerbooth, Jess (ADP)/ Lim, Ron (ILT) Series Title: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Subtitle: The Laughing Corpse Ultimate Collection Publication Date: 2012/02/22 Number of Pages: 210 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.75 Height: 10.25 |
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter By Hamilton, Laurell K./ Green, Jonathon/ Alves, Wellington (CON)/ Booth, Brett (CON) $24.43 Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case. Author: Hamilton, Laurell K./ Green, Jonathon/ Alves, Wellington (CON)/ Booth, Brett (CON) Subtitle: The First Death Publication Date: 2008/02/27 Number of Pages: 96 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.45 Width: 7.00 Height: 10.50 |
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Anita Blake Vampire Hunter By Hamilton, Laurell K./ Green, Jonathon/ Alves, Wellington (CON) $19.29 Vampire slayer Anita Blake helps the police find a vampire serial killer responsible for a series of child murders, but quickly realizes she needs the help of her mentor Manny and supernatural hitman Edward to solve the case. Author: Hamilton, Laurell K./ Green, Jonathon/ Alves, Wellington (CON) Subtitle: The First Death Publication Date: 2009/01/28 Number of Pages: 128 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.25 Width: 6.50 Height: 10.25 |
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Soap Shoes are shoes made for grinding. They were introduced by Chris Morris of Artemis Innovations Inc. with the brand name "Soap" in 1997 and simultaneously invented a new extreme sport based on Aggressive Inline Skating. They have a plastic concavity in the sole, which allows the wearer to grind on objects such as pipes, handrails, and stone ledges. The company and their product rapidly gained popularity through numerous fansites, a video game, and live demonstrations across North America and Europe soon after, but fell to legal vulnerabilities and was readministrated twice, eventually bringing the brand to Heeling Sports Limited. The act of grinding on rails and ledges specifically using soap shoes has been dubbed "soaping," with the "soaper" being the one performing said act.
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In-Stride, a company whose target market was primarily wrestling gear, purchased Soap. The company's industrial focus made some believe In-Stride wouldn't be able to properly manage Soap, and keep the brand's focus in its original place. It is still debated whether In-Stride ever designed or released any Soap shoes, although evidence does suggest that they were responsible for a couple models that did not have grindplates. In-Stride went bankrupt in late 2002, and Soap was once again available for purchase.
Heeling Sports Limited, the company behind the shoes with a wheel in the sole known as Heelys, realized that the grindplate could be very profitable when paired with their wheel, and acquired Soap later that year. In early 2003, six new Soap shoes were released, each in multiple color schemes; simultaneously, HSL was designing hybrid shoes to sell under the Heelys brand. HSL has been criticized for releasing too many new models at a single time, and not supplying requested stock to retailers frequently enough. Since HSL's debut play on Soap, desire for a more distinguishable variety of shoes has been expressed by the fans; five of the six models included the same fixed grindplate and had the same sole design. Two of the six were actually the same shoe, but sold in different color schemes and with different names. There is one model still in production from the first generation released by HSL, the Soap Express.
The sport never caught on to the mass market in comparison to, for instance, skateboarding, but the brand "Soap" does have a professional team mostly consisting of pro inline skaters. Soap's heyday was in the late 90's and early 2000's, when competing crews from across America and Europe were releasing internet videos on a regular basis, spurring a dedicated, albeit small, online community of "Soapers". However since then most of the crews have disbanded along with the website forums, and now there are only pockets of proponents of this marginal extreme discipline around the globe. A revival of sorts was noticed in early 2006 as more people were attracted to Soaping, and HSL responded by re-releasing their Express model in limited quantities. Soap shoes continue to sluggishly regain popularity, although not without difficulty due to Heelys using grindplates in addition to their wheels.
Soap shoes can go hand-in-hand with freestyle walking to form lines or multiple tricks strung together. An example would be landing into a royale and grinding, finishing the trick with a 360 Method out. It is one of the few land-based extreme sports that can be easily practiced in both dry and wet conditions.
There are two schools of thought for basic frontside/backside grinding with Soap Shoes; the first using the leading leg (your right foot if you are goofy and vice versa for regular) as the leg you leap off, landing with your back foot on the rail/ledge/etc. first and subsequently placing your leading foot on moments later. The second technique is to leap off your trailing leg and place your leading foot on the rail/ledge/etc. first following it with your trailing foot moments later. You can also endeavour to land both feet simultaneously on the rail.
There is little advantage from one technique to the other; leading leg first often yields more speed but this is at the expense of control, and abandoning a trick if your trail leg fails to lock onto the obstacle proves difficult without risking injury, as your leading leg will be sliding away from you. On the other hand, the trail leg first technique is much more controlled and safer in the event of poor execution, but speed is sacrificed.
The technique used is mostly based on preference due to your natural bias. e.g. a right footed person who is of regular stance (the most common combination) will find it far easier to leap off their left foot and land with their right foot on the rail first using the trailing leg technique outlined above.
Soap Shoes were featured in the videogame Sonic Adventure 2, developed by Sonic Team USA in San Francisco. This game presented many billboards, blimps, and benches advertising the shoes; also, Sonic wore a custom version of the Scorcher shoe exclusively in that game, while the darker character Shadow wears hybrid jet hoverskate/grind shoes, as grinding (or "soaping") is an important gameplay element in the game. Grinding is now a core element of recent Sonic games, though now he sports his original trademark shoes. This is because after In-Stride bought control of Soap, no actions were taken dealing with the continuation of the partnership, and neither has HSL. However in two episodes of the anime Sonic X, Sonic's Soap shoes are brought in to give him an advantage over his enemies.
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