{"id":6744,"date":"2012-02-26T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2012-02-26T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T18:15:52","slug":"mitzi-teddy-and-kevin-spacey-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/mitzi-teddy-and-kevin-spacey-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitzi, Teddy and Kevin Spacey in the Garden of Good and Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6755\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-teddy-by-savannah-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6755  \" title=\"Mitzi Szereto and Teddy Tedaloo hanging out on Savannah's River Street\" src=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-teddy-by-savannah-bridge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mitzi Szereto and Teddy Tedaloo hanging out Savannah's on River Street\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-teddy-by-savannah-bridge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-teddy-by-savannah-bridge-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mitzi Szereto and Teddy Tedaloo hanging out on Savannah&#39;s River Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those of you who have been following our travel adventures on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mitzi-Szereto\/24537936152\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, you&#8217;ll likely have noticed that my famous bear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Teddy-Tedaloo\/151962304864919\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Tedaloo<\/a> and yours truly are recently back from a trip to the South, y&#8217;all! &#8211; in particular, Savannah, Georgia, land of moss-draped live oaks and more ghosts than folk who are still alive to draw a breath.<\/p>\n<p>Ted had an invite to visit actor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000228\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Spacey <\/a>and I had an invite to visit the cemetery &#8211; the Bonaventure Cemetery, to be precise. If that sounds like a quirky way to spend a holiday, then you clearly don&#8217;t know us very well, as quirky is our <em>modus operandi &#8211; <\/em>in fact, the quirkier the better!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ted-at-forsyth-square-fountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6765\" title=\"Teddy Tedaloo visits Kevin Spacey by Forsyth Square\" src=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ted-at-forsyth-square-fountain-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Tedaloo visits Kevin Spacey by Forsyth Square\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ted-at-forsyth-square-fountain-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ted-at-forsyth-square-fountain-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teddy Tedaloo visits Kevin Spacey by Forsyth Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Ted was busy sipping mint juleps with our Kev (aka &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight_in_the_Garden_of_Good_and_Evil\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Williams<\/a>&#8220;), I was busy dodging branches of moss-laden oaks (along with a few headstones) looking for Talen Dashkovar, the handsome (read &#8220;hottie&#8221;) blood-sucking vampiric star of the hit American television series set in Savannah called &#8220;The Blood Moon Kiss&#8221; and, by coincidence, the star of my Southern Gothic short story of the very same name featured in my recently published anthology\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/redvelvetandabsinthe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Velvet and Absinthe: Paranormal Erotic Romance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Now there&#8217;s a coincidence you can really sink your teeth into!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6757\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-ted-in-bonaventure-cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6757\" title=\"Looking for Talen Dashkovar in the Bonaventure Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-ted-in-bonaventure-cemetery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for Talen Dashkovar in the Bonaventure Cemetery\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-ted-in-bonaventure-cemetery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/me-and-ted-in-bonaventure-cemetery.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking for Talen Dashkovar in the Bonaventure Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I suppose it was inevitable I&#8217;d meet up with him at some point, especially when you consider his close resemblance to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0813812\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Somerhalder\u00a0<\/a>(aka &#8220;Damon Salvatore&#8221;)\u00a0from another hit American TV series, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cwtv.com\/shows\/the-vampire-diaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Vampire Diaries<\/a>,&#8221; which is an obvious rip-off of &#8220;The Blood Moon Kiss.&#8221; (They&#8217;re just lucky I haven&#8217;t sued.)<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I managed to survive my cemetery date without losing too many pints of blood. As for Teddy, I&#8217;m afraid he ended up worse for the wear from his own social engagement. You see, he really tied one on with Mr. Spacey. I do declare, I even heard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lady_Chablis\" target=\"_blank\">The Lady Chablis<\/a> had to intervene between the two gents before they came to blows. Rumour has it they got into a scuffle over a woman. Or was it a pint? Knowing Ted, it must&#8217;ve been a pint. He&#8217;s a bear who has his priorities right &#8211; and he&#8217;s not inclined to lose in battle.\u00a0Hmmm&#8230; I wonder if all our years of living in Britain has made him a wee bit too blokey. I do worry about him sometimes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6777\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/teddy-and-tybee-tank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6777\" title=\"Teddy Tedaloo kicks Kevin Spacey's ass\" src=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/teddy-and-tybee-tank-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Teddy Tedaloo kicks Kevin Spacey's ass\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/teddy-and-tybee-tank-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/teddy-and-tybee-tank-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/teddy-and-tybee-tank.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teddy Tedaloo kicks Kevin Spacey&#39;s ass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyway, it turns out we felt right at home in Savannah. We ran into a couple of good old boys in the form of an Irishman and a Scotsman on the very same day &#8211; now I ask you, how much better can it get? It&#8217;s always reassuring to meet people from the old country when you&#8217;re travelling. The fact that the Scotsman later plied Teddy with pints of Scottish ale at a local Scottish pub is another story.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, at least we didn&#8217;t get thrown out of the joint. I&#8217;m just glad Spacey didn&#8217;t turn up, especially after the earlier bloodshed. I suspect Kev&#8217;s going to want some kind of rematch &#8211; I mean, why else do you think he&#8217;s always hanging around London? That Old Vic theatre stuff is just an excuse. Truth is, he&#8217;s stalking Ted. And yes, I agree this isn&#8217;t the most dignified behaviour for a man who&#8217;s received an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>As for dignified, I&#8217;m afraid our trip took a slight turn for the worse when Savannah&#8217;s version of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.police.uk\/history\/oldbill.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Old Bill<\/a>\u00a0decided to take matters in hand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6788\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Savannahs-old-bill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6788\" title=\"We'll go quietly, Officer.\" src=\"http:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Savannahs-old-bill-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"We'll go quietly, Officer.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Savannahs-old-bill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Savannahs-old-bill-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#39;ll go quietly, Officer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oh, well&#8230; I can always write a prison novel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have been following our travel adventures on Facebook, you&#8217;ll likely have noticed that my famous bear Teddy Tedaloo and yours truly are recently back from a trip to the South, y&#8217;all! &#8211; in particular, Savannah, Georgia, land of moss-draped live oaks and more ghosts than folk who are still alive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1782,1784,1780,1781],"tags":[1372,24,33,2148,1983,69,880,1367,170,1882,2147,2153,2155,1359,2151,2149,2150,716,2105,1904,2146,831,2156,2152,999,827,2145,2154,1369,772,1836,489,491],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsandentertainment-2","category-randomandcrazy-2","category-travelandplaces-2","category-writingandpublishing","tag-actors","tag-anthologies","tag-authors","tag-bonaventurecemetery","tag-bookrelease","tag-books","tag-celebrities","tag-damonsalvatore","tag-facebook","tag-famousteddybears","tag-georgia","tag-ghosts","tag-gothic","tag-iansomerhalder","tag-jimwilliams","tag-kevinspacey","tag-midnightinthegardenofgoodandevil","tag-mitziszereto","tag-paranormaleroticromance","tag-redvelvetandabsinthe","tag-savannah","tag-shortstories","tag-southerngothic","tag-talendashkovar","tag-teddybears","tag-teddytedaloo","tag-thebloodmoonkiss","tag-theladychablis","tag-thevampirediaries","tag-travel-and-places","tag-vampires","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}