And the grand prize went to Mickey

And the grand prize went to Mickey, whose owner Tomoko Watanabe received a gift basket from Pet's Delight featuring treats, toys and a fluffy bed a tad too small for her costumed canine. I ask her if the Tiffany rock on her finger has helped her to 'find’ the flighty, beautiful Daisy? 'I do find myself staring at her ring,’ she replies. Definitely a pleasure to start off the month with Jim Steinmeyer on his book "Who Was Dracula? Bram Stoker's Trail Of Blood".The new venue is no accident.Well, the experiment is ruined and Karloff is put on trial, convicted by a stupid lawyer and stupider judge and jury, and sentenced to hang. Isopod is a tall, cadaverous man who tends to dress like an undertaker and gives the willies to everyone in the office.jpgImage Credit: Barry WetcherWhen it came time to outfit the groom (Ben Barnes), the designer also took style cues from the script. 'See here, Daisy got this when she was a little girl,’ he says, cradling a silver locket in his enormous hand. Better still, he didn’t even have to murder all those short-sighted hospital administrators first.’ Like those inflatable zebras in the pool, I say, thinking back to how the eye-popping stripes added even more verve to the party scene.But around 1940 he starred in a cluster of films in which his mad scientist carachter wasn’t mad at all, but was only trying to do what he could to benefit all mankind.After experimenting on himself at home, Dr. Karloff is great as ever (he actually has a character arc here), and I love the fact that so many questions are left to the viewer’s imagination, just as they were in Lovecraft’s stories. Her shoes look nice, but they aren’t very fancy. After all, that money could be used to build a new research facility to help other people with brain problems.