After True Blood came out and I realized that the setting took place in rural North Louisiana, with many adventures in to my hometown of Shreveport, I was intrigued. The show is good (even though the southern accents are very bad). So I decided to pick up the books the show is based on and give them a whirl ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman (author of many many famous novels including Coraline, The Graveyard Book, Sandman, etc and a personal favorite writer of mine) is friends with Chef Chris DeBarr, who owns and operates The Green Goddess restaurant in New Orleans. Such good friends in fact, that if you go to the Green Goddess, and use Neil Gaiman's password, which he ( Read more... )