{"id":1011,"date":"2004-06-08T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:57:02","slug":"1011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/08\/1011\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Head to Head Matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, we&#8217;ve pitted <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/04\/74\/\" target=\"new\">Tommy Lee Jones against Michael Ironside<\/a> to see who&#8217;s the tougher, and we&#8217;ve matched <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/01\/247\/\" target=\"new\">Ani DiFranco against Pink<\/a> to see who&#8217;s the grittier authentic singer, but now we&#8217;ve got a monumental battle of epic proportions:  <b>Who&#8217;s the tougher vampire slaying hottie?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center>Buffy &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0000CEODG\/qid=1086656446\/sr=8-3\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?v=glance&#038;s=dvd&#038;n=507846&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=bc8e15be70df8262cbe1bdd8d930cd4c\" target=\"new\">The Vampire Slayer<\/a>&#8221; Summers<\/p>\n<p>versus<\/p>\n<p>Anita &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Laughing-Corpse-Anita-Vampire-Hunter\/dp\/0425204669\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=ba792bcc39bb8312e6f968c0b16c7e53\" target=\"new\">The Vampire Executioner<\/a>&#8221; Blake<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Both of them have frequent romantic dalliances with members of the supernatural, but I can forgive that.  Gee, Buffy&#8217;s perky and endowed with super powers which leaves her with martial arts skills and super strength.  However, Anita Blake can raise the dead and doesn&#8217;t mind usign firearms from time to time (every couple of minutes, almost).  Advantage:<b> Blake!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure:  I read the Anita Blake books in the mid nineties and had a crush on Anita Blake, who would be a perfect woman except for her undead fetish.  I&#8217;ve only seen the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Rutger-Hauer\/dp\/B074TLYSFH\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=movies-tv&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1534193783&#038;sr=1-1&#038;keywords=buffy+vampire+slayer+movie&#038;refinements=p_n_format_browse-bin:2650304011&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=2d0e381aa3a95b41809ad618a66cec64\" rarget=\"_new\"><i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i><\/a> and haven&#8217;t seen much of the television series.  Because face it, Buffy&#8217;s an also-ran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, we&#8217;ve pitted Tommy Lee Jones against Michael Ironside to see who&#8217;s the tougher, and we&#8217;ve matched Ani DiFranco against Pink to see who&#8217;s the grittier authentic singer, but now we&#8217;ve got a monumental battle of epic proportions: Who&#8217;s the tougher vampire slaying hottie? Buffy &#8220;The Vampire Slayer&#8221; Summers versus Anita &#8220;The Vampire Executioner&#8221; Blake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23238,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/23238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}