I get the sense that, with the exception of commonly-accepted ones, collective nouns can be whatever you want. Maybe what you pick highlights some quality of vampires that's contextually important?

A haunting...
A profanity...
A vein...
A hazard...
An infiltration...

...of vampires?

Obligatory photo of a very good boi

Also, I deeply identify with this chicken. I am him. He is me. He is us all.

OMG best recipe in the whole of the NYT cooking web. We make it regularly in the winter. With double the onions tho'

Another way of looking at it: if the suggested cooking time is right, then that's only one clove per minute-- which seems awfully slow to me.

Love it! Thanks again for sharing!!

Very cool, thanks! TROY strikes me as SO interesting in that context, almost contrapuntal to If I Ruled; the hyperspecificity of the one against the bigger-canvas commentary of the other, yet with several points of convergence...

This is just great stuff.

Very cool assignment!!

Can I ask: I'm always interested in the outliers with these sorts of things. Were there any unexpected, out-of-left-field ones that the student(s) did a great job contextualizing?

I genuinely unironically love the Standells. Some great garage-y songs on that first album.

I've lived this scenario and tried to rig up all manner of contraptions to trigger the sensor -- pulleys! mirrors! foam darts! -- and nothing worked well enough. Then one of my favorite students asked me why I didn't just bring in a lamp.