They stumble among us: This has absolutely nothing to do with comics (unless you want to make a Steve Niles connection), but it's Thanksgiving, so there's nothing else going on ...

I love Pravda.Ru. It's always a good read, and it's occasionally even brilliant. Take, for instance, this matter-of-fact account of the humdrum, and apparently drunken, lives of provincial vampires:

"For a few years no one has seen him doing anything but drinking. Then Vasily found another passion: he slaughtered cattle for old women, who could not do this anymore. They paid him what they could, and he accepted everything: sometimes it was a plate of borsch. No one remembers now the first time he asked for a cup of fresh, still warm blood, but with time he has started asking this as payment."

The article also includes a helpful checklist to help determine how much of a vampire you are, courtesy of the Vampire Research Center:

Are you skinny?
Is your face pale?
You often wear sunglasses and use sunburn protection cream?
You prefer candles to electric light?
Are you tolerant to temperature changes?
You look much younger than your age?
You have a deep, magnetizing look?
You are rarely ill, avoid medicines?
Do you judge smokers and drug users?
Do you like night-time loneliness?
Do you like raw meat?
You are not interested in sex much?
You like occult sciences?
You like dressing in black?

I'll admit I'm a bit worried. Happy Thanksgiving.