"You know I'm down with it. I love that show. I wish I could be on it. I'd be a hell of a vampire, don't you think? So what's happenin'? 'True Blood,' get at me ...Snoop Dogg wants to be a vampire." – Tha Doggfather, Oct. 2009.

Not sure how that would effect his status with the Crips but hey, if anyone can get away with it, it’s gotta be S-N-double O-P.

(And yes Snoop, you would be a hell of a vampire.)

It’s interesting to see the trends that pop up over the years. But if you would have told me ten, shoot - five, even two years ago that everyone would want to emulate vampires, I probably would have got a look on my face like those girls on Maury who just knew they found the father of the baby, but sadly did not.

“That’s not right!! I don’t care what that test says!! Noooooooo...”

Seriously, go to your local mall and look around. There are now 3 types of kids:

A) The kids who are smart enough to realize how dumb they would look in pictures ten years from now if they follow current trends.

B) The kids who wear really, really bright colors, jeans that barely went over their feet, and scarfs. They are known as “hipsters”, a misnomer if there ever was one…and

C) kids dressed like Count Chocula with eyeliner.

I fully realize the popularity of True Blood and the insane following of Twilight among the aformentioned mentioned local mall crowd. But ... people want to be vampires? Why? You do realize you can no longer eat garlic bread, right? Is it worth it?

This trend was previously called “goth” up until a few years ago, but today’s brand of children prefer to have specific roles, thank you very much. Actually, I just read that the vampire trend is supposed to be a bit more glamorous and sexy than your average run-in-the-mill "goth". I could see that. Dracula was a pretty suave individual; always was dressed to the nines and cleaned up. He was like the George Clooney of Transylvania, I guess.

Anyway, if anything positive comes from this, perhaps it will be the resistance to look fresh out of the tanning bed at every second. There was a point where girls were starting to look like a mix between Paris Hilton and Garfield. In mathematical terms, Pale > Orange in 2009.

Snoop's disclosure that he would like to partake in the darkside is both awesome and scary. Where do we go from here? It used to be people wanted to look like 50’s gangsters or 30’s movie stars or 90’s rappers (hey, like Snoop!). You know, real people. Now, It's a legtit threat that people are going to be running around with toilet paper wrapped around them because “mummies are in”. 

Big question: How will this effect Halloween? Will these kids show up to doorsteps on the 31^st in a t-shirt, jeans and sans eyeliner looking for candy and/or blood? At what point do people start getting freaked out and carrying wooden stakes around ...you know, just in case? Perhaps this phase should quickly pass over. On to the next one?