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Rance wuz here...
Tuesday, 17 August 2004
Coverage of the Vampire
The Vampire lives the life of a vampire. Born and raised in the Miami area, he now has an apartment in Transylvania, has learned Hungarian, sleeps during the day in a coffin, and drinks blood. However, he only drinks a cup of it per day, and he purchases it. Also (most disappointing), he cannot turn into a bat.

In sum, there was little in the way of real anecdotal value in his 1,622 Hungarian words, other than that people do strange things, the price of coffins is astounding, and occasionally our man cuts the blood with club soda.

Next vampire, please. And if you cannot turn into a bat, please do not apply.


Administrative Notes:

Rance will post in the very near future. In response to a reader query as to whether Rance and the Administrative Staff are one, Rance will neither confirm nor deny it. He added that, similarly, he will neither confirm nor deny that he is Rance.

Posted by captainhoof at 11:22 AM CDT
Updated: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 11:30 AM CDT
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Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 11:53 AM CDT

Name: rancelot
Home Page: http://rancelot90265.tripod.com

Ahhh, but will the Administrative Staff confess to being Rance? That is the pertinent question!

Anxiously awaiting the return of the Great One, the ol' bard and Master of the Mighty Word himself, rambling ranting Rance, Blog Master Supreme!

Oooh! Here's thought. Maybe if we held the BLOG-ADEMY AWARDS, and offered to rank Rance #1 in all catagories, he would grace us with a tiny morsel, scrap or tidbit of information. Yeah, that's the ticket to keep us ranting and raving with baited breath until we need our next fix.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:15 PM CDT

Name: princessr9

Well that sucks! Or not I guess if he only drinks a cup per day. While the vampire was disappointing at least there is a light at the end of the tunnel and Rance will be posting soon. Better luck with the next vampire Admin. If I come across one I'll send him/her your way.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:17 PM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

Hmmmmmm...I wonder, would he be willin' to clean up a small mess I've made?

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:31 PM CDT

Name: sickofthischeese

Who cares who you are, honestly. Like me, you are no ordinary person, but when it comes down to it you are only recognized because people get so bored with their lives they have to go waste their money on something, so lucky you. It is all mathematics anyway, probability, someone has to fill the role, so your number got picked, but dont think you are anything but lucky. My purpose is far greater, that of fighting crime. I was offered your life but I sensed a greater purpose, a calling, and one day I awoke to a mysterious black tight suit in my bedroom hanging from my closet door. I knew immediately what that was, no words needed, my destiny hung before me. So act away, but before you get carried away with all the pointless attention, think of me, someone unheard, unseen, but vital to your safety, and every now and then point to the sky and say thanks, that is all I ask. Enough about you already.
Its funny how hunger will motivate a man. I hear men saying all the time how they love and need a woman, but what about pizza? No woman in the world could make up for a ny style double cheese and pepperoni pie. Besides, once you beat off...you forget all about the woman, when you eat a slice of pie, well it isnt so easily forgotten. So I donned my black tight outfit, sick of the hunger, sick of the crap this world will feed you. I took to the streets. Besides, my daughter needs to eat too. My first night was surreal, the black tight suit made me invisible, and the possibilities were tearing at my moral code. I was standing right there on the street, completely invisible to the passer-bys, life finally had a purpose. To test out just how unnoticed I am, I screamed as loud as I could just as this elderly man approached. He dove for cover like a vietnam vet on the 4th of july, man, the hair stood up on my neck as I watched him panic. He peeked around and saw no one, nothing, but there I was. He quickly brushed himself off and scuttled down the street hoping noone would noticed were he pissed himself. Man that was fun.
I know what your saying, nice superhero, well maybe, but after my crap of a life, I had a little venting to do before I turned to the problems of others. I wasnt ready for the responsibility. For the moment weed and women were atop my list, live with it. My thoughts shifted quickly, as approaching from one block down was walking a mini skirt topped off with some absolutely gorgeous organicly grown melons.
Oh want to know more, disgusted and intrigued? Well trust me, that night is one you want to know about.

yours truly


Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:42 PM CDT

Name: JCanuck
Home Page: http://bulgybit.blogspot.com/

Vampires, isn't it odd how some things exist in many cultures?

They believe in vampires in Africa, mermaids too (Mamy Wata) and occasionally you get mass hysteria over "genital stealing" evil witchdoctors. The last are supposedly able to make your genitals disappear by simply touching you.

These outbreaks usually result in several unfortunate souls getting beaten to death in the marketplace after being accused of stealing someone's privates because they have brushed up against someone. I have to think that either the person that was brushed up against (almost always a man) has either become so paranoid from the rumours that everything shrinks into his body in fear at the slightest human touch, or that these are some form of cleverly organized targeted killings. Obviously, no one ever asks the "touched one" to drop his pants and prove it, so they?

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:49 PM CDT

Name: Cheryl

Wow, what a letdown. You'd think with all that buildup the guy would at least be interesting. I hate that. Well, I agree, forget about this one. He's boring... lives in an apartment, buys blood...zzzzz. Let's find a better one.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:51 PM CDT

Name: Sass

I don't believe that.

I don't believe he is the Administrative staff or he isn't. Nor do I believe he is or isn't Rance. You're sneaky. Trying to pull something over on your readers.
But not me. I won't believe it ....
..... not until I hear it from the man himself.

Until then, I'll believe that Rance and the Administrative staff are one or they are not. I'll believe that Rance is not Rance or that he quite possibly, most definately COULD be Rance.

That's exactly what I believe or not.






Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 12:56 PM CDT

Name: NativeGirl

"...the price of coffins is astounding...."

Fortunately for the Vampire he can now purchase one for the low, low price of $799 (plus shipping and handling) through Costco.


Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 1:18 PM CDT

Name: Wendy in Chicago

You should visit the Chicago area. At the Costco stores they now will sell coffins, at a price of $799.00. Who knows the Vampire may find himself a good deal. Oh, and I believe they are open late.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 1:28 PM CDT

Name: Annie
Home Page: http://montannie.blogspot.com

So maybe the bat I saw yesterday (see blog) was...

Annie

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 1:31 PM CDT

Name: Kit

What about a vampire that can turn into a wolf? Don't they do that too? I think that would be more interesting. Bats are just so yesterday. But that's just me. And is the world coming to an end and I didn't get the memo? First Gus is blown up (supposedly) and then Rubber Duckie goes quackers. Is it something in the water?

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 2:28 PM CDT

Name: Karl

The world isn't all fairy tales and other crap. I do have a question though, is your "vampire" a real one? Does he actually require blood to live? Maybe he just wears prosthetic teeth, drinks blood and sleeps in a coffin for kicks. Then again I may have just signed my own death warrant, so if any actual vampires or the vampire in question reads this, I apologize. This is just basic skepticism.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 3:14 PM CDT

Name: Administrative Staff
Home Page: https://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/

sickofthischeese, you know we want to know more.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 3:17 PM CDT

Name: princessr9

Yes, that would be helpful wouldn't it? What with that pesky can't go out in the sun problem and all. I think you buy just about anything at Costco now. Isn't that just nifty?

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 3:57 PM CDT

Name: ginny
Home Page: http://www.blogula-rasa.com

Oh, great, now our wacky friend Steve will be bugging us about getting coffins and using them for coffee tables because they're such a good deal, and then when we croak we can have the funeral(s) in the family room, no fuss no muss.

He's a little addicted to Costco, is our friend Steve.

Coincidentally, I'm out in Chicagoburbland. As far as I can tell, no vampires in the area.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 4:04 PM CDT

Name: waxwing
Home Page: http://hungary.com/

Vampire or not, the man learned Hungarian so I am impressed on that detail alone. I barely manage to spell "paprika". But not being able to transform into a bat is a serious issue. Still, I regret missing the opportunity to ask if vampires really do eat the peanut butter first.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 4:49 PM CDT

Name: feenxc

hi admin. you know, i'm having some difficulty picturing fizzy blood, but then when i do, i can't get rid of the picture. and did he say if he has sand in his coffin?

oh well,waiting anxiously for rance...waiting...waiting...

i understand rdd better now

kisshugs

nastrovia

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 5:49 PM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

You mean you didn't understand me before???? I thought we talked the same talk and walked the same walk....waddle, waddle, waddle, quack, quack, quack.....

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 6:27 PM CDT

Name: ginny
Home Page: http://www.blogula-rasa.com

Wait - if you use club soda to get stains out, does this vampire drink self-cleaning blood? It would certainly save on his dry cleaning bills.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 6:42 PM CDT

Name: Sir Nard Manhawk
Home Page: http://searian.blogspot.com

And as such, I will neither confirm or deny visiting this website!

Haha! Turned you're own mind games back on you Rance!

Oh.. Wait..

Damn.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 7:27 PM CDT

Name: feenxc
Home Page: http://www.booksforsoldiers./forum/index.php

hi everybody!

every now and then, this site gets a little political. and sometimes we discuss books. i'm not trying to say anything about politics (or books), but i encountered a site today that i wanted to pass on. it's a link to people in the armed services who are posted in terrible places. some need some things, some just need someone to talk to, letters to read, contact with the real world.

i don't really care about your personal thoughts on the pros and cons of armed conflict (i am trying to phrase this pc), but these are just people like us out there, they could use some of these stories.

just a thought

kisshugs

nastrovia

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 8:15 PM CDT

Name: Nicole

Since I probably own every Castlevania game and have watched alot of vampire movies...there is much more to a vampires life than drinking a cup of blood a day.

I want to hear more details..how long has this vampire lived...his last sunrise... his first taste of blood... and other morbid things like that.

Just trying to make this be more interesting.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 8:23 PM CDT

Name: John O

I once knew a vampire who lived or at least resided in Gilroy, California in a loft above a company that manufactured wooden garden stakes. His next door nieghbor was a silversmith who was also an avid hunter and he made his own bullets. Needless to say this vampire was one paranoid dude.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 8:53 PM CDT

Name: feenxc

ok, rdd, now i'm scared. i was sitting here, reading your reply to my comment, started laughing, my youngest grandkid asks why, i turn to answer her, to see that she is coloring a picture of a duck, quacking. spooky!

kisshugs

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 9:12 PM CDT

Name: El

Wow, count Chocula would be more interesting.

With regard to the jedi mind tricks of Rance's "neither confirm nor deny" statements, the style of the Administrative staff's writing seems oddly similar to Rance's. So either this Administrative staff was taught to write by the almighty Rance...or they must be one and the same.

Assuming, of course, that Rance is indeed Rance.

Tuesday, 17 August 2004 - 9:44 PM CDT

Name: Aoife

Okay, all this time lurking and the trivial thing that finally makes me want to come out of the woodwork for a second or two is a small bone I have to pick with The Vampire. I'm just curious as to why he learned to speak Hungarian when his Transylvanian flat is, of course, located in Romania. I'm sure there's a very good, simple yet creative answer to that question, which The Vampire could and should use to shut the likes of me up on the subject forever, though...

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 12:22 AM CDT

Name: flyrchld

First, a little bit of history.
We are an old people, long-lived.
Unfair to call us predators, better to call us survivors.
Succubi/Incubi, vampyres, dopplegangers - but human, no, never human.
We are few now, we have no children, we did not inherit the earth.
We were the beloved, once, but no longer, ours is a sad and bitter history. Favored, then forsaken.
I am Lilith... not The First, no, we were of the time Before.....

fly

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:54 AM CDT

Name: Mia Toretto

Dear Sickofthischeese,

I feel like I smoked that laced weed you had there on that given night. You are funny, keep that imagination rolling for the sake of the following:

Published studies have shown that laughing

1. lowers blood pressure,
2. reduces stress hormones,
3. increases muscle flexion, and
4. boosts immune function by raising levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies.
5. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being.

Keep it up. It's a lot better than reading Gus Openshaw or sitting here like a fool waiting for Rance to open up his chopper. (just a little kick in the ankle, there Gus, for having obvious favorites. ;) Your story really does rock, Gus.)

By the way, Rance, you don't fool me. Your essence leaks with your writing style.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:55 AM CDT

Name: Mia Toretto

You quack me up.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 6:05 AM CDT

Name: Miss T

To help kill the time waiting for Rance/Real Vampires why not check out what David Hasselhoff has been up to in London? Seems 'Hasselwatch' is becoming an increasingly popular british pastime.

http://www.popbitch.com/idnshc/

Yes, yes, we perhaps should try cultivating other interests, but hey ho.

Righto, must dash, just noticed some men outside my flat trying to mow the pavement and making a dreadful racket. Need to do my civic duty and point them in the direction of some grass.

Maria Von Trapp.

ps. Gus is Okay. Phew!

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 10:20 AM CDT

Name: his name is Thorpe, Ian Thorpe
Home Page: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mslauren2930/

oh Rance, you big ole tease. you always leave me wanting more.... thank goodness for ESPN.com to distract me whilest I patiently wait for the next witty and inspiring post.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 10:36 AM CDT

Name: Brookside
Home Page: http://brookside10.tripod.com/brookside10

The simple fact that the same discount store where people buy peanut butter sells coffins is really creepy. I don't think I'll ever be able to go into a Costco store without that image in my head.

B

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 11:19 AM CDT

Name: JCanuck

That's what they always say about real estate...location, location, location!

Gilroy, that's a good one ;)

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 11:26 AM CDT

Name: JCanuck

Location, location,location!

Gilroy, that was a good one ;)

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 11:36 AM CDT

Name: flyrchld

I've lived many lifetimes, it can be called living...we are neither dead nor mortal. We do not fear the daytime, we just prefer the privacy of night. We choose to reside in sleepless places...New York, London, wherever there is an abundance of emotion, life. The myth of the vampyre is true, to some extent, though we are more like the succubi since we rarely choose to kill the 'victim', we change form like the doppleganger, but only to seduce. I suppose we are the origins to many folk tales and legends.... it's just that they've gotten it wrong.... oh, some of us like blood...it is the physical extension of emotion... But we don't need much and we inspire pleasure not pain...
We appear to be everyday people, though usually more simply attractive...
I was in New Orleans... visiting a wonderful talespinner.. and enjoying the 'old' atmosphere... people are affected more deeply in nostalgic places, it tastes like a confection to me. We do enjoy the physical pleasures of food and physical activity, but our 'life' is not sustained by these, it is the life energy of strong emotion which keeps us.
There. You see him?
Tall, dark.... he is nice. Perhaps, I shall leave you for a moment and take some of his time.
('beloved', she whispers to him from down the street, he shakes his head and looks around, he can't possibly have heard anything and he sees her, there at the entrance to the St Louis Cathedral, to him she is breathtaking illumined by the lights of the church. She notices his smile and returns it. He approaches.)



fly

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 11:41 AM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

Hmmmm...I thought Transylvanian was in Pennsylvania......

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 12:07 PM CDT

Name: kj4ever
Home Page: http://kj4ever.blogspot.com

People watch David Hasselhoff on purpose?

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 1:09 PM CDT

Name: Administrative Staff
Home Page: https://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/

flyrchld, if you can write more, in English, we'd appreciate it.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 1:54 PM CDT

Name: JCanuck

Pssst A.S., I suspect flychld might be quoting from Anne Rice.

And bless your little heart, I just realized that there is a link to be notified for updates on the page.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 3:00 PM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

I thought they was vampIres and shapeshifters was the form changers....and dopplegangers were those folks stuck in the stale time warp, sorta like us here.....oops, that was langoleers wasn't it....oh well, tomato-tomatoe

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 3:20 PM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

I know Rance doesn't accept scripts, but tell him if he'll come back and mingle with these folks as compared to what's goin on here now I've got a black comedy story line that's pretty hilarious and I'll give him first dibs...

(Everybody just watch and see...that'll get him runnin' back fer sure....Sorta like when I offered up my story and he came flyin' right back....I hate to break it to you folks but I don't think he's comin' back any time soon and if he does it won't be for long...This is JMO, IMO, MOO, MOOO, moo cow, moo, quack, meow, woof woof....)

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 4:11 PM CDT

Name: princessr9

I suspect that you are correct regarding the Anne Rice quote. Now, can you please be a dear and tell me where the link to be notified of updates is, I just can't quite seem to find it. Thank you so very much. I'm afraid I've been staring at the screen so long waiting for a post from Rance I've become blind to all else. BTW, how goes the smoking cessation?

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 4:19 PM CDT

Name: princessr9

Everyone's got to have a hobby.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 4:30 PM CDT

Name: JCanuck

Wow, fly found a way better Hungarian to English translator than A.S. did. I always suspected that Zsa Zsa'a accent was a fake...

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:06 PM CDT

Name: JCanuck

Right down at the bottom of the page, under the ad. I suspect it's a practical joke though, when I tried to sign up, I got a screen saying "Yikes! There's a problem". Maybe you have to have a Lycos email or click a bazillion times on the ad first...

Smoking...well you know that lighter I went out and bought for the upcoming Rocky Horror Show? It's looking awfully tempting over there...kind of lonely too. It's probably a good thing that they don't have 7-11's here.

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:09 PM CDT

Name: flyrchld

sorry, my Canadian friend, but no, that's all mine... vampire lore being what it is and all... her characters reproduce, sort of...mine can't, and they aren't really vampires after all. but I do like most of her stuff. And thanks for the flattery, intentional or not.

fly

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:12 PM CDT

Name: JCanuck

Thanks DuckIE, I'll now be singing "Old McDonald had a Farm" all night, once I manage to stop laughing. Been into whatever the duck equivalent is of catnip tonight, have we?

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:22 PM CDT

Name: flyrchld

RD, am so pleased to have a comment from you. as for Dopplegangers...
"(German: ?double goer?), in German folklore, a wraith or apparition of a living person, as distinguished from a ghost. The concept of the existence of a spirit double, an exact but usually invisible replica of every man, bird, or beast, is an ancient and widespread belief. To meet one's double is a sign that one's death is imminent. The doppelganger became a popular symbol of horror?" excerpt from the Encyclopedia Brittanica
It will make more sense later....once I figure it out and write it..... hmmmm....

fly

Wednesday, 18 August 2004 - 5:58 PM CDT

Name: flyrchld

AS,
Can do, Hungarian is one language I do not speak, or write. Thanks.
fly

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 12:46 AM CDT

Name: waxwing

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Rance, I will be holding this lighter up as high as I can for as long as I can. Encore! Encore!

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 5:08 AM CDT

Name: Miss T

I was wondering...

Do vampires have a preference for a certain blood type?
Is there any such thing as a vintage year?
Who tastes better - veggies or meat eaters?
Do they avoid countries where there is large garlic consumption?
Would a vampire consider themselves to be a raw foodist?

Tat ta
Maria VT
xx

ps. Apparantly people do watch Hasselhoff out of choice. My favourite Hassel'spot' had to be the lady who apparantly shouted "you are nothing without your electric car...Nothing!!". Although it also made me feel a bit sad, people can be so mean.

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 6:16 AM CDT

Name: Allen
Home Page: http://crusty.bloggedup.com/

And of course, there's that famous Mamy Wata, the African Prince who was turned by Dracula himself: Blacula!
(I'm sorry, I had to say it.)

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 10:18 AM CDT

Name: princessr9

No 7-11's? That's awful! What do you do when you need a slurpee at midnight? I was cleaning out my purse the other day and found an old lighter at the bottom. I have to say it was quite nostalgic.

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 10:21 AM CDT

Name: princessr9

I thought it was great, keep up the writing. I would love to read some more.

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 11:01 AM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

As you may well have noticed, my bribes are worth about as much as the paper they weren't written on...

Does Rance have a chihuahua? Perhaps a hostage situation would draw him out of the woodwork...

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 11:05 AM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

A.S.

Do you know if Rance is considerin' my proposition of cartwheels or forward rolls?

Can you elaborate on the status of DVPs and can we exchange them for RPPs?

Sincerely,

RDD

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 11:49 AM CDT

Name: Administrative Staff
Home Page: https://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/

RD, re: your story, see today's post. Also a cartwheel would be fine.

Thursday, 19 August 2004 - 12:03 PM CDT

Name: Rubber Duckie

Just so's I know I got all my ducks in a row, what you're sayin is Mr. Rance, himself, has agreed to do a cartwheel down the red carpet?

And just so's he knows, I am a duck of my quack and I will most certainly deliver...notwithstanding that he may want to return it...

Tuesday, 24 August 2004 - 1:42 PM CDT

Name: babenoname

I speak Hungarian, would be happy to look at the vampire's words for you.

Saturday, 4 September 2004 - 11:55 PM CDT

Name: A.D. Walker
Home Page: http://ad.walker.org

I was thinking Rance is someone who writes poetry and wrote to me when I was once in Korea. Back then, he had computer friends who had set up an on-line community, and was able to 'mask' his email responses by hiding them with a program. I think he was recently in the Far East, eating large shrimp, before visiting a place he holds dear. True? Not true?

And I think he wants to be known as a writer, and has thus started this blog, frustrated with the limits his real name incurs.

As for vampires, I wrote a Good vs. Bad Vampire novel I'd love to change into a filmscript - if anyone was interested. Unfortunately, the novel was written on alcohol so half still remains in my head.

Love lots,
Delaney/Dana (change names a lot, just like actors' names change)

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