Enough already with the vampire thing

Ruth La Ferla has an article in The New York Times about the whole vampire phenomenon:

The symptoms are unnerving: a taste for fresh meat— rare, if you please; an aversion to sunlight; and a passion for spectral-looking, fine-boned rakes. All are indications that the sufferer has been bitten by the vampire bug.
Vampire lust is now a pop-culture contagion being spread via television, films, and fiction. What began with the Twilight Saga, the luridly romantic young-adult series by Stephenie Meyer, followed by Twilight, the movie, has become a pandemic of unholy proportions.

Rico says he hasn't cared about vampires since Nosferatu (the original, not Herzog's remake), and all this current vogue for them can go away tomorrow (hell, tonight) and he won't mind one bit...