Might I Suggest a Mash-up?: Buffy and Betty

Welcome to a new media segment I'm going to call "Might I Suggest a Mash-up?" (as you may have noticed).

This weeks mash-up? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Betty Draper...




Ever noticed how similar they look? Well, who's to say that Buffy's slaying predecessor wasn't a fussy, tight-lipped woman from the 50s/60s? I mean, slayers aren't known for having the longest life expectancy. It could have happened.

So here's the show: Betty Draper moves away (already happened), when she meets an older, wiser gent who tells her that she's got a destiny (a spin-off show)in which she's a rockin' vampire slayer (maybe FOX is jonesin' to get into the vampire market?).

Your mission: recommend songs for the soundtrack. Anything from the 50s/60s and even the 90s and today that could add some style to the show. Mash-ups preferred!!

My Mission: to recommend some research to you. If you're interested in vampire/history mash-ups, check out the new book "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (I know I will!)



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Two New-Old Words

On this beautiful March day, I have two wonderful words to relay to you all that, in my opinion, need to jimmy themselves back into our everyday lexicon. On second thought, maybe they just need to apply to the "Romance Novel Character Division" ASAP, because that's really where they belong.

Our first word. Imagine a grey and barren landscape surrounding a once handsome, but now showing signs of neglect, southern farmhouse. Inside, two women sit by the fire, debating. Jimmy hasn't been in his right mind since he returned home after being injured in the war, but with no end in sight to the horrible battles raging around them, Arabella feel duty bound to her family and her ideals. There's no way Jimmy can re-enlist, even though his wounds have long since mended themselves. Arabella sees only one option; to Transfeminate:

To turn from woman to man, or from one sex to another.
- Thomas Blount's Glossographia, 1656

It may get awkward when Arabella is captured by a group of Yankees, and even more awkward still when Arabella begins to feel an unwanted spark of attraction to the handsome, and overbearing, Yankee Captain. When Arabella catches a horrible case of pneumonia, her secret is in peril. How will this case of transfemination end for the headstrong Arabella and the handsome Yankee Captain?

Our second word. Honestly, I was writing out a plot for this word, but it was taking way too long. So I'll just give you the word. Insert it into any romance plot you see fit. It will make for a very memorable secondary character indeed.

Metromania:

A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane.
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