Warning: This could be blasphemous

So I thought I was totally over the fact that Brett Favre retired from my Packers. I was wrong. Today I got this week's issue of TIME, and of course, the sports article is about him. It brought everything back. Yes, I'm in mourning. Titletown will rise again - we had to lose Bart Starr eventually, and Brett's no different. It's just....*sigh*. It'll never, NEVER EVER be the same. Yes, I'm genuinely sad. Keep that in mind when you mock me.

But on a happier note, TIME's 10 Questions were to none other than...*drumroll*...ANNE RICE!!!!! Nothing I didn't already know...but I thought the picture of her was pretty good. Something struck me when I saw it - to think that the mind and imagination of this little cute old lady with a greying bob haircut gave birth to the most sensual, dark, passionate, luxurious, and philosophical creatures I know. This little old woman, clutching her rosary beads, asked questions and provided few answers, dared to literarily (yes my dear readers, that's a play on 'literary' and 'literally') desecrate Catholicism only decades later to literarily (there it is again) swear off her masterpiece, the world of her Brat Prince Lestat, and consecrate her future writings to Christ. The near 30 year old cult following, composed of the gothically inclined in body, mind or spirit, was orphaned by our Queen of Vampirism. The prophet of the Savage Garden would no longer serve as both herald and scribe of the Gospel According to the Damned. As her devotees mourned the loss, we hesitantly embrace the new Canon that cannot ever be Canon, for it is the story of Christ the Lord told from His eyes.

And yet there is hope on the horizon. A spark that may die in the air before it catches. The promise of one more novel. After the story of Christ is finished. Translation: we must wait at least four years. At the VERY least. Lestat will wrestle with and likely embrace Christianity. Rice vowed never to write her vampires in the same way again. And even so, she may decide to not tell this final part of the story. The great allegory of the desperately struggling soul, searching for truth may never be completed.

But the lips of Canon whisper possibilities, they whisper fetal hope. Will the Madonna of the Vampires conceive and bear a son, a reborn Lestat?

The possibility of playoffs early in the season is unspoken of amongst Cheeseheads - to speak of it may be enough to jinx the whole season. This may be true of the Vampire Chronicles as well.