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COLLEGE BASEBALL: WEEKEND SCORES IN THE NAIA, NJCAA, D2 AND D3 WORLD SERIES

balladeer — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:45:57 +0000

Fire up the grill for a Memorial Day Weekend overflowing with college baseball World Series action! The NAIA got the holiday rolling yesterday with the opening 4 games of their event and today the NCAA Divisions 2 and 3 join them.

Not only that but the NJCAA Divisions 1 and 2 hit the diamond today as teams like the Scottsdale Fighting Artichokes (logo at left) mark day 1 of their World Series.

Enjoy a 3-day weekend of barbecues, sun and championship- level baseball! What basketball is to March, college baseball is to this time of year. Keep checking back here at Balladeer’s Blog today and tomorrow for updated scores as they become available.

NAIA WORLD SERIES - (8) University of South Carolina- Beaufort Sand Sharks UPSET the (5) Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Eagles 7-2 Score was 3-2 going into the 8th inning (Eagles elim) (6) Lewis-Clark State Warriors over the (10) College of Idaho Coyotes 5-1 (Coyotes elim) *****

D3 WORLD SERIES Webster University Gorloks over the Kean Cougars 8-7 Gorloks trailed 7-6 going into the 9th inning (Cougars elim) *****

D2 WORLD SERIES – West Chester Golden Rams over the Chico State Wildcats 4-0 *****

NJCAA1 WORLD SERIES – San Jacinto College Gators UPSET the Iowa Western Reivers 5-2 *****

NJCAA2 WORLD SERIES – Heartland Hawks over the Catawba Valley Buccaneers 5-4 ***** Madison College Wolfpack over the College of Rhode Island Knights 7-2 *****

NAVAJO MYTHS: CLIFFDWELLER

balladeer — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:25:45 +0000

Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog, the site where everything that is unjustly neglected gets its well-deserved due! The Navajo myth about the god of war Nayanazgeni battling the dark gods called the Anaye was first covered here back in 2010, but I have a much larger readership now than then so this will seem like new to most of you.

8. CLIFFDWELLER – Nayanazgeni now turned his attention to a cliff-dwelling Anaye called Tsetahotsiltali. In those myths which featured the Thunderbirds’ nest as being at the top of a mountain he traveled along the same mountain range to reach this foe.

Tsetahotsiltali lurked in a high mountain pass where he would kick (or in some versions butt with his head) passersby off the trail to their deaths on the rocks below, where his scavenger children (in some myths 12 in number) would feed on the corpses. This Anaye was immune to plummeting to his own death by the fact that his long hair grew into the mountainside like roots, safely anchoring him.

Coming upon the Anaye unexpectedly around a sharp turn in the narrow ledges, Nayanazgeni was taken by surprise and kicked with such force by Tsetahotsiltali that even with his strength he was nearly knocked off the cliff wall. The next kicks sent the war god’s bow and lightning arrows plummeting to the ground before he could bring them to bear against his Anaye foe. The 4th kick Nayanazgeni blocked and struck his attacker with such force that the Anaye would have been sent to his doom except for his incredibly long hair rooting him to the mountainside.

The battle continued in this way, with the 2 combatants savagely fighting at close range and the Anaye’s long hair allowing him to just swing back to the ledges from which Nayanazgeni tried to knock him. Eventually the war god wrenched the monster’s rooted hair from the cliff walls and one last blow sent it to its doom far below. While the creatures own children (and in some versions its mate) devoured its corpse, ravenously fighting over the eyes, arms and liver, Nayanazgeni rapidly made his way down the cliff to his fallen bow and lightning-bolt arrows.

The Anaye’s monstrous children had finished their gruesome meal by this point and scattered in panic from the being that had slain their parent. Shooting his lightning bolts at the fleeing Anaye, Nayanazgeni killed them all and transformed them into buzzards because of their taste for corpse-flesh. In some versions 1 of them manages to elude Nayanazgeni briefly and when the war god catches it he contemptuously decides it is too filthy, small and ugly to kill so he lets it live and the myth, proving once again that bigotry is universal, goes on to say that this Anaye became the father of the Paiutes, whom the Navajo considered a ragged and dirty people who lived on the vermin of the desert.

CONTINUED NEXT TIME AS NAYANAZGENI STANDS ALONE AGAINST MORE OF THE ANAYE. FOR THE COMPLETE STORY AS WELL AS MORE DETAILS ON ALL THE OTHER NAVAJO GODS MENTIONED IN THIS EPIC CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/navajo-myth-clear/

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THE 2012 NAIA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES GETS UNDERWAY TODAY!

balladeer — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:02:51 +0000

Oh, to be in Lewiston, ID in the springtime! Once again Lewiston is playing home to the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) World Series. 10 teams have gathered together for this double- elimination tournament to crown a new champion, following last year’s champs, Concordia (CA), being ousted in the regional playoffs.

The University of South Carolina- Beaufort Sand Sharks (logo above left) and the Rogers State University Hillcats are making their 1st appearance in the final field of 10 teams. The top 2 seeds, the LSU- Shreveport Pilots (riverboat pilots) and the Lee University Flames, respectively, each have a bye in today’s opening round and will play their first games tomorrow.

Among the 8 teams hitting the diamond today will be the (10) College of Idaho Coyotes and the (7) Point Park University Pioneers in Game 1 at 12 Noon ET. The aforementioned (8) USCB Sand Sharks and the (9) Rogers State Hillcats face each other at 3pm ET, followed by the (4) Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs taking on the (5) Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University Eagles at 6pm ET. The 10 pm game will feature the host team, the (6) Lewis- Clark State Warriors vs the (3) Oklahoma City University Stars.

For scores from BOTH the NAIA and the NCAA D3 World Series keep checking back here at Balladeer’s Blog throughout the day for udpated scores.

NAIA WORLD SERIES – (7) PPU Pioneers over the (10) C of I Coyotes 7-3 ***** (9) RSU Hillcats UPSET the (8) USCB Sand Sharks in a 3-2 Instant Classic ***** (4) TN Wes Bulldogs ANNIHILATED the (5) ERAU Eagles 17-3 Score was just 6-3 going into the 6th inning ***** (3) OCU Stars over the (6) LCSC Warriors 7-2 Score was 5-2 going into the 9th inning

NCAA D3 WORLD SERIES – Wheaton (MA) Golden Bears over the Webster University Gorloks 3-2 ***** Cortland State Red Dragons over the Kean Cougars 10-5 ***** St Thomas (MN) Tommies over the Christopher Newport University Captains 12-7 ***** Marietta College Pioneers (defending champs) over the Whitworth Pirates 13-2

BAD MOVIE PAGE: LEWD LIZARD (1985)

balladeer — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:19:38 +0000

I normally don’t post two movie reviews this close to each other, but I got to thinking today about how it’s been awhile since I got any threatening emails. Since getting semi-literate missives from outraged people is half the fun of writing this blog I decided to finish working on my rough draft of this review and post it today.

LEWD LIZARD (1985) – Category: A neglected bad movie classic but its thoroughly outrageous premise will prevent it from ever garnering a Plan 9- sized cult following

This film comes to us from Hong Kong, the home of killer fetus movies and similar treats, so those with weak stomachs are forewarned. My addiction to truly awful Mad Scientist movies is well known and Lewd Lizard’s lead character is the maddest of them all but also the least scientific, adding immeasurably to the laughs.

There’s no gentle way of explaining this movie, so to prepare you for what is to come let me remind everyone of the fringe, kinky sex-kick that some people practice involving letting small mice, shrews or gerbils run around inside their rectums. After the animals’ squirming induces the desired results the little rascals are let out, alive and ready for next time. This fad was especially popular with gay males in the 1980′s, prompting the old joke that goes: Q: What did the brown mouse say to the white mouse in San Francisco? A: You must be new in town.

Variations of this practice evolved, of course, and in the best “sisters are doing it for themselves” spirit women took to letting the small creatures run around inside their vaginas, with supposedly more and greater results than the earlier procedure induced. Makes ben-wa balls look pretty wimpy, doesn’t it?

At any rate, the Far East variation of this practice involved putting small lizards in one’s orifices to engage in erotic spelunking, and that brings us to the premise of Lewd Lizard. Our protagonist hates women every bit as much as Muslim fanatics and seemingly ALL makers of horror films do, so he trains a squad of lizards that, when used for erotic purposes will try to devour the women from the inside, eventually killing them with a combination of intermingled ecstacy and agony. ( The Agony and the Ecstacy II: Lewd Lizard )

My oft-repeated comment that Category 3 movies from Hong Kong can’t even be shown on pay cable here in the U.S. may make sense now to those unfamiliar with their cinema. Our Mad Scientist was dumped by a woman, so he took to this bizarre form of revenge on all women. He first trains the lewd lizards with odorous panties stolen from public rest rooms and brothels. Next he injects them (the lizards, not the panties) with his specially concocted “aggression compound”, preparing them to wreak the kind of physical havoc that not even the Cenobites had the balls to inflict.

Toward the end of the movie the Mad Scientist meets a woman he actually falls in love with, and this portion of the flick comes complete with the stereotypical romantic montage. The montage might have been meant as a very dark joke. It’s hard to tell with Hong Kong films. Anyway, just when it looks like our madman has found true love and will abandon his horrific vendetta against women, tragedy strikes. The young lady who has stolen the lunatic’s heart is into the practice of letting lizards roam around inside where normally only the deer and the antelope play (I have no idea what that means) and, when she comes across one of the jars of lewd lizards the Mad Scientist keeps around, she promptly slips one down the front of her bikini bottom.

In an ending ( I resisted the urge to say ”climax”) fraught with tragic irony or … something … the madman must watch the slow orgasmic death-throes of the woman he loves just as he gleefully and ghoulishly watched the suffering of all the female victims he hated. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Oh, and unfortunately, unlike Ben from Willard, our title creatures don’t get a theme song by Michael Jackson.

IF YOU’D LIKE TO READ A PREVIOUS REVIEW OF A HONG KONG MOVIE, ONE I DID GET THREATS OVER, CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/2011/10/13/passions-fine-but-i-expect-clean-language/

FOR MORE BAD MOVIE REVIEWS CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/bad-movies/

© Edward Wozniak and Balladeer’s Blog 2012. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Edward Wozniak and Balladeer’s Blog with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

NJCAA1 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS FINALIZED, PLUS DAY 5 OF THE NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES

balladeer — Wed, 23 May 2012 22:41:23 +0000

Perennial baseball power the Iowa Western Reivers ( snazzy new logo at left) are among the field of 10 teams making the 2012 NJCAA Division 1 College World Series. Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at all of this year’s participants below.

Meanwhile the NJCAA Division 3 champs may be crowned tonight. The Joliet College Wolves and the Niagara Thunderwolves are the two teams left standing and they face each other tonight at 8pm ET. Niagara already has one loss in the Series so if they lose it’s all over. If the Thunderwolves win, however, it will only be Joliet’s first loss, forcing a deciding game tomorrow night.

NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES – Joliet College Wolves over the Niagara Thunderwolves 6-5 in 10 innings WOLVES ARE THE 2012 NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS *****

NJCAA1 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS

IOWA WESTERN REIVERS

CISCO COLLEGE WRANGLERS

GORDON COLLEGE HIGHLANDERS

SAN JACINTO COLLEGE GATORS

SHELTON STATE BUCCANEERS

NEOSHO PANTHERS

SPARTANBURG METHODIST PIONEERS

WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE WILDCATS

JEFFERSON COLLEGE VIKINGS

POLK STATE EAGLES

The series begins this Saturday May 26th, a day after the NAIA College World Series gets underway.

BAD MOVIE PAGE: HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980)

balladeer — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:31:11 +0000

HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980) – Category: A neglected bad movie classic that deserves a Plan 9-sized cult following

Okay, this movie is better known than many of the other joyously bad films I review, but it still hasn’t acquired the reputation or the following it deserves as Midnight Movie or Movie Host material. Vic Morrow IS the heavy and Doug McClure IS another bland and unmemorable hero in this film, one of the many horror flicks that tried to imitate Alien.

Roger Corman executive- produced and his gang alone would turn out a few other movies that were , shall we say – “reminiscent” – of Alien, namely Forbidden World and Galaxy of Terror (If you ever wanted to see Joannie from Joannie Loves Cha-Chi explode from within this is the movie for you!) The central idea of those films, as with Humanoids from the Deep, seems to have been “audiences can’t get enough scenes of people getting violated in bizarre ways then bursting open with the inhuman offspring thus conceived!”

In Humanoids this gimmick is combined with the time-honored “scientific experiments spawn mutant sea monsters” plot for a true classic of fun-bad filmmaking. The monsters are amphibious man/ fish hybrids who are visually compelling but silly all at the same time and their all-out assault on a boardwalk festival at the end of the movie is hilariously absurd. The fish-men spend the bulk of the story slashing up men and making off with their women so they can sexually violate them, then wrap the women in seaweed until it was time to give birth.

Unlike Corman’s other Alien pastiches this one makes the audience wait until the very end for the scene of a mutant hellbeast erupting from its human host. This is the type of enjoyably bad movie that would be just plain depressing if it was done with state-of-the- art special effects and competent actors. As it is, though, it is one long laugh from start to finish punctuated by flashes of gore and gratuitous amphibian-on- woman mating. You can make your own sophomoric From Here to Eternity jokes when you see the seaside sex scenes.

Director Barbara Peeters went on to direct several episodes of the prime time soap-opera Falcon Crest, which featured Lorenzo Lamas violating various females while managing to seem even sillier than the monsters in this flick. Veteran fans of bad biker films will recognize an early victim of the sea-beasts as Hoke Howell, beloved for decades as Crapout in the movie Sidehackers (“That was number FIIIIVE!” ).

FOR MORE BAD MOVIES CLICK HERE: http://glitternight.com/category/bad-and-weird-movies/

2012 D2 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS FINALIZED, PLUS DAY 4 OF THE NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES

balladeer — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:27:17 +0000

Balladeer’s Blog presents a look at the 8 college baseball teams making the NCAA Division 2 World Series. The defending champs, the University of West Florida Argonauts, got eliminated in the regional playoffs so there will be a new title holder this year. Will it be the University of Indianapolis Greyhounds (logo at left) or one of the other 7 teams in the World Series field?

Read on to see all the D2 teams who will be competing for the championship and for updated scores from the 4th day of the NJCAA3 College World Series.

NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES - Niagara Thunderwolves over the Tyler College Apaches 11-3 (Apaches elim) ***** Niagara Thunderwolves over the Northern Essex Knights 9-5 (Knights elim) NIAGARA ADVANCES TO FACE JOLIET COLLEGE TOMORROW FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP

NCAA DIVISION 2 WORLD SERIES TEAMS

INDIANAPOLIS GREYHOUNDS

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE PENMEN

ST MARY’S (TX) RATTLERS

DELTA STATE STATESMEN

CATAWBA INDIANS

MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS

WEST CHESTER GOLDEN RAMS

CHICO STATE WILDCATS

The D2 World Series begins this coming Saturday, May 26th. Balladeer’s Blog will have updated scores as they become available.

ONE WOMAN FACES DANGEROUS TIMES IN CHINA

balladeer — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:28:08 +0000

My favorite international adventuress, “Gabryella”, author of the riveting blog The World According To Woman (logo at right) offers a tense and disturbing look at xenophobia and misogyny in China.

This courageous lady is a bit outre, so politically correct wimps should avoid her blog, but if you have a spine check out her latest missive about the inherent perils of being a resident alien in China. Here is the link –

http://theworldaccordingtowoman.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/the-witch-hunt-in-china-a-confusing-rant-by-woman/

2012 D3 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS FINALIZED, PLUS DAY 3 OF THE NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES

balladeer — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:06:32 +0000

The regional playoffs in NCAA Division 3 baseball are over and the eight teams that will compete in the D3 College World Series have been finalized. The Webster University Gorloks (logo at left), a former Cool-Named Team of the Day here at Balladeer’s Blog, have the most original and creative name among the eight teams.

On the actual baseball side of things last year’s champions, the Marietta College Pioneers, won their region and return to the World Series to defend their crown. For the other D3 World Series teams as well as scores from today’s NJCAA3 College World Series games read on.

NJCAA3 WORLD SERIES – Game 9 – Tyler College Apaches UPSET the Gloucester Roadrunners 12-11 (Roadrunners elim) ***** Game 10 – Niagara Thunderwolves dismember the St Cloud Tech Cyclones 13-3 ( Cyclones elim – slaughter rule invoked in the 7th inning) ***** Game 11 – Joliet College Wolves UPSET the Northern Essex Knights 8-2

NCAA DIVISION 3 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES TEAMS

WEBSTER UNIVERSITY GORLOKS

MARIETTA COLLEGE PIONEERS

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY CAPTAINS

ST THOMAS (MN) TOMMIES

CORTLAND RED DRAGONS

WHITWORTH PIRATES

WHEATON (MA) LYONS (with a “y”)

KEAN COUGARS

Both the NAIA College World Series AND the D3 World Series throw out their first pitch this coming Friday, May 25th. Stay tuned to Balladeer’s Blog for updated scores.

WORLD-FAMOUS SEX SYMBOL TEDDI BARRETT LOVES BALLADEER’S BLOG!

balladeer — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:19:20 +0000

The beautiful and talented Teddi Barrett demonstrates her good taste in blogs while taking a break from her busy life as the embodiment of every man’s romantic fantasies! Teddi has an interest in mythology and some of the other topics covered here at Balladeer’s Blog.

This sexy and creative lady runs her own on-line store where she sells plenty of dvd’s, posters and other merchandise to the countless men and women who adore her.

To get started on your own collection of Teddi memorabilia you can visit this 21st Century pagan goddess’ website by clicking over to: http://www.teddibarrett.net/MyStore/