September 17, 2026 · 5:18 pm

THE OZIDI EPIC OF NIGERIA: PART TEN

FOR PART ONE CLICK HERE. PART TWO HERE. PART THREE HERE. PART FOUR HERE. PART FIVE HERE. PART SIX HERE. PART SEVEN HERE. PART EIGHT HERE. PART NINE HERE.

PART TEN – We begin this installment with a much more mature and sober-minded Ozidi. We’ve seen him go from his wild and unavoidable embrace of violence during his revenge quest against the murderers of his father to destructively maintaining that reflexive violence after his vengeance had been achieved.

From there we saw him learn humility from facing disastrous setbacks – albeit temporary ones – in combat and last time around we saw Ozidi grow disillusioned with violence due to the tragic circumstances it brought on.

Our now more serious hero has resumed his walks around his unfit uncle King Temugedege’s land Orua. Word reached him about the abuses being inflicted on the people by the brutish Ogodu, a muscular hulk of a man who had a malformed face with the eyes on top of his head.

Now moved by a sense of obligation toward the well-being of the people and no longer just revenge or proving his mettle against any powerful rival he encountered, Ozidi nobly went in search of Ogodu. Continue reading →

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September 17, 2026 · 4:58 am

B-MOVIE HOSTESS: SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER (2005-2007, 2009-present)

SALLY THE ZOMBIE CHEERLEADER – This horror hostess is portrayed by Nicole Galeano aka Nicole M. King aka Nicole M. Brooks. The Zombie Cheerleader started appearing on Public Access Cable around 2001, and in 2005 the undead pom-pom girl launched one of her best-known Movie Hostess programs – The Zombie Cheerleader’s School of Horror.

Sally cleverly used a black & white riff on the old MGM roaring lion logo on the production. “Hic Sunt Monstri” is Latin for Here be Monsters, making our subject’s motto a play on MGM’s “Ars Gratia Artis” – Art for Art’s Sake – and “Hic Sunt Dracones” – Here be Dragons, from very old maps. 

The Zombie Cheerleader’s School of Horror lasted into 2007 and the supporting cast consisted of her daughter Genevieve Brooks as Zombette, an underclass and undead cheerleader who assisted the star, as did the monstrous Mr. Hairyhands, played by Daniel Brooks.

Letting her daughter be part of the show reminded me of the old Philadelphia Movie Host Dr. Shock making his child Doreen a co-star as “Bubbles.”

In 2009 our Movie Hostess returned with her new program The Zombie Cheerleader Show, which has been running on various outlets including TV stations from America’s northeastern states westward to Hawaii. The Zombie Cheerleader Show also enjoys runs on assorted cable and streaming platforms, YouTube, Vimeo, The Monster Channel, The Vortex, Tingler TV and Roku. Continue reading →

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September 16, 2026 · 8:17 pm

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: THE BARZEITSON EXPERIMENT (1888)

THE BARZEITSON EXPERIMENT (1888) – Written by female author Rebecca Rogers.

In Paris, ladies’ man and playboy Ambroise Schlegel strikes up a friendship with mad scientist Professor Barzeitson and his beautiful young wife. Ambroise has obvious designs on the woman, but she is unresponsive.

He persists and as an excuse to keep crossing paths with the lovely lady pretends to take an interest in what he thinks are the lunatic ravings of the professor. One day Barzeitson reveals to Ambroise the results of some of his secret works. Continue reading →

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September 16, 2026 · 7:37 am

SEPT SIXTEENTH NEWS ROUNDUP

Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog is here with another current events roundup.

THE LINDSAY CLANCY FANGIRLS ON THE JURY CONTINUE TO SHOW HOW THEIR BIASES VIOLATED PROPER JURY PROCEDURES. Yet these privileged white one percenter leftists adopt a “blame the lone black man on the jury” attitude. The holdout juror is being harassed and attacked now. So Democrats have politicized and ruined trial by jury like they’ve ruined teaching, H.R. departments and so much else. More HERE.

NBC BOSTON IS ALSO CULPABLE.     

TRANS ANTIFA MEMBER STATES HE WISHES CLANCY WOULD KILL HIS CHILDREN. 

DEMOCRAT SENATE CANDIDATE ABDULRAHMAN MOHAMED EL-SAYED GETS CALLED UPON TO RETURN THE CAMPAIGN DONATIONS HE RECEIVED FROM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. More HERE.

M.B. MATHEWS ON THE URGENT NEED TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS.

DEMOCRAT-HELD CALIFORNIA’S LEGISLATURE PASSES LAW FORBIDDING FORMER ICE AGENTS FROM BEING HIRED BY THE STATE GOVERMENT FOR ANY JOBS. But hey, California remains a Sanctuary State for illegal immigrants who commit additional crimes.

CLASSIC FLASHBACK: “DEMOCRATS – THE SMIRKING JACKASSES OF LIFE.” Continue reading →

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September 15, 2026 · 8:45 pm

FOOL KILLER PART SEVENTY-SIX: JULY 1915

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore. FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE 1850s, CLICK HERE.

PART 76 – As always, it’s fascinating to read the over 100-year-old opinions of James Larkin Pearson (and by extension his Fool Killer), including the opinions that one doesn’t agree with. Here are the Fool Killer’s targets in July, 1915:

*** Frank Holt – real name Erich Muenter – an Imperial German spy who was active in the U.S. despite America not having entered the World War yet. (We would not enter the war until April 1917.) In addition to teaching anti-American sentiments at Ivy League universities Harvard and Cornell, he set off a bomb in the U.S. Capitol building, sabotaged U.S. war aid being sent to the Allied Powers against the Central Powers in Europe and elsewhere and tried assassinating J.P. Morgan’s son Jack in his own home.   

           “Holt” also murdered his own pregnant wife with arsenic before taking his own life on July 6th, 1915.

*** An unidentified ripoff artist in Iowa who was selling a device which he claimed cured blindness. 

*** Cigarette smokers. For newbies to Pearson’s Fool Killer, he was a very early critic of the health dangers of smoking.

*** The rotating series of “official” Mexican governments, which made it hard for other countries to know which one to recognize. Continue reading →

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September 15, 2026 · 12:28 pm

FILM REVIEW: I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED (1998)

i woke up earlyI WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED (1998) – Directed by Aris Iliopulos, this is the film that was made based on that notorious unproduced script written by THE Ed Wood, the master of badfilm behind Glen or Glenda, Plan 9 From Outer Space and more.

The identity of the screenwriter is the main draw for this cultiest of cult movies. A secondary draw is the way even the smallest roles are performed by famous, infamous or fashionably esoteric figures. Think of I Woke Up Early The Day I Died as an arthouse companion to 1994’s Ed Wood from Tim Burton.

i woke up early zaneThere’s no dialogue, Easter Eggs regarding Wood’s various Golden Turkeys abound and excerpts from the actual screenplay appear on screen at times in case viewers are skeptical that the weirdness they’re witnessing really was in the original script.   

Billy Zane is in the lead role as a violent mental patient who overpowers his nurse, dresses in her uniform and escapes from confinement. He pulls off an armed robbery but has the proceeds stolen from him in turn at a bizarre funeral held by a deranged cult. Zane then commits multiple murders as he works his way through the list of people who may have the money from his heist. Continue reading →

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September 14, 2026 · 5:27 pm

FORGOTTEN TELEVISION: CORONET BLUE (1967)

CORONET BLUE (1967) – Another intriguing but short-lived television series created by future Psychotronic legend Larry Cohen, the man behind The Invaders. Coronet Blue was an hour-long espionage program about Michael Alden (Frank Converse), an apparent intelligence agent suffering from near-total amnesia after being drugged and tossed in the ocean by unknown parties who accused him of betraying them. 

The words “Coronet Blue” are among the few things he remembers about his past. Alden tries to learn their meaning while mysterious forces pursue him and try to kill him. Brian Bedford and Joe Silver also starred. This avant garde series was filmed in 1965 but was judged to be too difficult for viewers to follow. It was not aired until 1967.

THE EPISODES:

A TIME TO BE BORN, A TIME TO DIE – After our amnesiac hero pulls himself out of New York Harbor he adopts the name Michael Alden based on the name of the physician treating him and the hospital in which he is laid up. His fingerprints come back with no match and Michael goes on the run from his enigmatic pursuers and struggles to learn what “Coronet Blue” means.   

Alden finds that he speaks fluent French and Spanish, has brutal self-defense skills and can play the piano. Some of the men and women trying to kill him are called “Greybeards” for unknown reasons. (Between this and The Man Called Noon it’s clear where Robert Ludlum drew some inspiration for The Bourne Identity.) The guest cast includes SUSAN HAMPSHIRE, Louise Troy, JON CYPHER, Baby Jane Holzer and JAMES NOBLE.  Continue reading →

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September 14, 2026 · 5:39 am

NEWS ROUNDUP FOR SEPT FOURTEENTH

Time for a Monday current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog. Last week ended with two of the High Holidays for Democrats – September 10th when they celebrate the murder of a man for disagreeing with their political opinions, and September 11th for the 2001 terrorist attacks that gave Democrats what they desperately longed for since the Soviet Union fell – a vile, oppressive international force at war with America so they could side with it at every opportunity like they did with the old USSR.

ODDLY, UNHINGED BILL MAHER MAKES SOME GOOD POINTS ABOUT YOUNG AND OLD DEMOCRATS AND THE LIES THEY EMBRACE TO SIDE WITH ISLAMOFASCISM. Maher conveniently ignores the fact that back then he too was saying “WE’RE the real terrorists” like Democrats were. At least he seems to have changed his mind about that since then.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE SHELLY HEADEN VISITS DACHAU AND LITERALLY SAYS “THIS IS WHERE TRUMP SUPPORTERS BELONG.” She’s garbage. And that silence you hear is Democrat failure to condemn her remarks. “Silence is consent” Democrats always tell us. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

AND YET ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD.    AND IN DEMOCRAT “SANCTUARY STATE” CALIFORNIA, ANOTHER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT EXPLOITED THEIR PROTECTED STATUS TO KILL ANOTHER VICTIM.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE WHO OPPOSES REQUIRING I.D. TO VOTE BUT REQUIRES I.D. TO ENTER HIS CAMPAIGN EVENTS.

PRESIDENT TRUMP AGAIN PRAISED FOR BRINGING THE LARGEST TAX REFUNDS EVER FOR WORKING FAMILIES.

DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDISTS FROM MS-NOW NEED RESCUING BY THE BORDER PATROL OFFICERS THEY DEMONIZE.   Remember, you will NEVER see Democrat media employees set aside politics to rescue fellow human beings like this.

THE THREE KAREN STOOGES FROM THE LINDSAY CLANCY JURY REPRESENT EVERYTHING WRONG WITH AWFLs. Yes, from the book clubs where only THEIR approved books can be discussed and now into the Jury Room, they make everything political. Continue reading →

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September 13, 2026 · 11:23 am

BALLADEER’S BLOG’S COLLEGE FOOTBALL RESULTS: SEP THIRTEENTH

HEADLINES

NAIA OVER NCAA DIVISION TWO – And another NAIA football team toppled a team from a higher division. The LANGSTON UNIVERSITY LIONS visited D2’s LINCOLN (MO) BLUE TIGERS yesterday and saw their 12-7 1st Quarter lead become a 14-12 Blue Tigers edge come Halftime. Neither team scored in the 3rd Quarter, but Langston U. consummated the Upset 19-14 in the 4th.

NUMBER THREE TAKES A FALL – Down in NCAA Division 3 the RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE YELLOW JACKETS welcomed the number 3 team in the nation – the JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BLUE JAYS. The Blue Jays were on top 14-7 at the Half, but RMC went up 21-14 in the 3rd Quarter. In the 4th, the Yellow Jackets prevailed 28-21. Continue reading →

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September 13, 2026 · 12:16 am

FLASHBACK: EVEN TWO CNN REPORTERS ADMIT ANTI-TRUMPERS ARE LYING ABOUT HIS “FINE PEOPLE” REMARK

FROM MAY 6th, 2019: Even the Democrat media outlet CNN admitted the lies regarding Trump’s remarks that day. Every so often anti-Trump fanatics still cite the lies, so this flashback looks at this item.  

“When even some reporters at the Democrat media outlet CNN realize that the lies Democrats tell about President Trump’s Charlottesville remarks have been exposed you’d think slobbering anti-Trumpers like Joe Biden would know better than to try peddling them.

Or maybe not. The reason so many of us former Democrats decided to #WALKAWAY is because being a Democrat now means lying on a daily basis.

At any rate CNN’s Jake Tapper and Steve Cortes called out the lies Biden was throwing around about President Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville last year. Trump NEVER called hatemongers like Nazis and Klansmen “fine people.” The “very fine people on both sides” remark clearly referred to there being fine people on both sides of the public debate regarding old war monuments and on what happened at Charlottesville.

#WalkAwayDemocrats and their media outlets have been trying to sell their lies about Trump’s remarks ever since then, with Crazy Joe Biden even perpetuating that lie when he joined 9,783 other Democrats in the presidential race.

Anyway, as even veteran Trump-hater Jake Tapper had to admit:

“Now, elsewhere in those remarks, Trump did condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists. So he’s not saying that the neo-Nazis and white supremacists are very fine people.”

That rare moment of honesty from Tapper was good to see, but the way so many Democrats continue pushing that lie wins stronger support for Trump among his supporters and people on the fence. As the now-cliché goes about Democrats’ dishonest attacks on the President, “Do you want more Trump? Because THIS is how you get more Trump.”

It’s also how you get more of us to #WALKAWAY from the increasingly unhinged Democrat Party.

Among the many sources where you can verify that President Trump clearly condemned the Neo-Nazis, Antifa Fascists and Neo-Klansmen and did NOT call them “fine people” (see below). Continue reading →

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