Canadian Werewolf kills preteen girlfriend's family

Man accused of murdering his preteen girlfriend's family say he professed to be a 300-year-old werewolf who liked the taste of blood.

Okay, that's a really long headline. But I'm hooked already! Let's check out some of the article:

[Jeremy Allan] Steinke, 23, and his 12-year-old girlfriend are each charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her parents and eight-year-old brother in their Medicine Hat home last weekend.

Medicine Hat is in Canada.

Daniel Clark, 22, said he once saw Steinke wearing what he thought was a small vial of blood around his neck and heard him refer to himself as a lycan - short for lycanthrope, or werewolf.

"I said, 'Yeah, whatever floats your boat,' " Clark said.

Oh, those crazy Canadians. I never heard of a Canadian werewolf before.

Werewolf Action Figure

Werewolf
Originally uploaded by firequall.

Quite possibly the awesomest werewolf ever.

Werewolves as Jewish Metaphor?

A fun and interesting article can be found at Forward Magazine, Should Jews Save The Werewolf From Extinction?, by Jeremy Wexler.

His idea of werewolfery as a metaphor for being a Jewish male in the twentieth century is pretty spot on. Looking at the mythology of werewolves through medieval Europe may cause you to question his conclusions, but he's actually drawing on the mythology of the Hollywood werewolf, from the original Wolf Man through Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although the Hollywood ideal of a werewolf differs sharply from that of say Germanic or Russian mythology, it is a distinct and completely legitimate branch of werewolfery into and of itself. As such, Wexler makes a convincing case here.

On a side note, he asks the question if the werewolf myth can survive in the coming years. Lately, we've been besieged with bombastic monstrosities such as Van Helsing, or super-cool but inaccurate portrayals in the Underworld franchise. I try to keep up on the latest werewolf news, but it involves sifting through page after page of "Werewolf: the Game" fansites, that ubiquitous "Which Werewolf are you?" quiz, and strangely disturbing Harry Potter fanfic involving "Remus." God send us the Schwaben Creek Werewolf movie, and soon.

Oh werewolf!