George Washington, 1754

Chris Stevens

Episode 5.14, "Bolt from the Blue"

British Colonel Washington and his men surrounded a smaller party of Frenchmen caught napping by their fires. "I heard the bullets whistle," Washington later wrote, "and believe me there is something charming in the sound."

You're with 1754, folks, and what young Colonel George Washington had just done was open fire on a peaceful diplomatic mission, killing ten frenchmen and an ambassador, leading France and England to the brink of global war. The French later caught up with Washington's men at Fort Necessity, beat the pants off of them, causing Washington to surrender. That's wild, huh?

I mean, we think of George Washington, and we see this old geezer staring at us from the front of a dollar bill. Calm, wise, father of your country. But young George, he was out there, man. Original loose cannon, twenty-two years old and brought the wrath of two countries down on him.

Whoa, George.

Life's Blood

Chris Stevens

Episode 5.23, "Blood Ties"

Lestat said, "Be still. I'm going to drain you to the very threshhold of death and I want you to be quiet. So quiet that you can almost hear the flow of blood through your veins, so quiet that you can hear that same flow of blood through mine."

That concludes this mornings installment of Interview With a Vampire. We'll be back sucking down the red stuff mañana with Lestat same time, same station.

Blood drive hiatus continues, giving us a little time to sit back and think. I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else--nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see? Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death.

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