It’s beginning to look like one of this spring’s trends is a scary one — no, not wearing Birkenstocks to work — modernizing classic horror novels. As of May 3, dracula-feed.blogspot.com founder Whitney Sorrow (yes, that really is her name) has been posting one entry per day from Bram Stoker’s Dracula so that readers can follow along in “real time.”
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The Iceman slideth
Posted mostly verbatim and almost without editorial comment, a few excerpts from the personal blog of DRIVEN contributor Marcus (thehandof)Tamm, describing an accidental crosstown drive sans brakes in his beloved 2003 Volkswagen Jetta, appropriately coloured ‘reflex silver’:
“Taking greater care to prepare for stops well in advance, I found that attention to down-shifting, coupled with the approximately five per cent of braking power I still had, made enough margin for me to come to a near-stop nine times out of 10.”
