Monthly Archives: January 2012

January 10, 2012 · 11:41 pm

BAD MOVIE PAGE: THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE (1979)

This is one of the reviews I get the most e-mail over so here it is again for the old fans and the new readers who have been requesting it without realizing I already reviewed it last year. Remember, before requesting a review you may want to see if I reviewed it already by checking my Bad Movies page. https://glitternight.com/bad-movies/

THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE (1979) – Category: Brucesploitation with an enjoyably absurd twist.       In the joyously tasteless beginning of this quintessential Brucesploitation movie British secret agents extract cell samples from the martial arts superstar on his deathbed. Since E-Bay wasn’t around yet they can’t auction off the cell samples so instead they use them to make three Bruce Lee clones to form an elite crime fighting unit.

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January 8, 2012 · 12:03 am

END OF THE WORLD MYTH: DECEMBER 31ST 999 C.E.

 One thousand years before the Y2K hysteria the approaching end of the First Millenium C.E. was also greeted with a panic that the end of the world was at hand. Officially, the church pointed out that people were “irrational, shit-brained assholes” (I’m paraphrasing) for believing that Christ would return on New Year’s Day of the year 1,000.

Regardless of that word from Rome, thousands of knights, serfs and children began traveling toward Jerusalem, convinced that Continue reading →

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January 7, 2012 · 6:06 pm

7 FOR THE 7TH: COLLEGE HOCKEY’S TOP 7 TEAMS

 Well, since it’s the 7th of the month I’ll take  a quick look at the Top 7 teams in NCAA Division 3 hockey. (The NAIA has no hockey league, so their participating colleges and universities play in the ACHA. I’ll be adding ACHA coverage soon).

1. NORWICH CADETS – The Norwich Cadets made the D3 Frozen Four during last year’s playoffs and as you can see they are now at the top of the rankings. Record: 8-0-1

2. OSWEGO STATE LAKERS – The Lakers spent some time in the number 1 spot last season and in a Continue reading →

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January 6, 2012 · 1:15 am

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES AND THE NEWS

Welcome once again to the Independent Voter site, Balladeer’s Blog, the “Open City” in an America that is becoming increasingly disgusted with the fanatical left-wing zealots and right-wing zealots who are tearing the country to pieces. Liberals, Conservatives and Adults are all welcome here, which is the only place on the web that is truly non-partisan in its criticism of the shrill lunatics from both ends of the political spectrum. Time for another examination of the hypocrisy, immaturity and general self-centeredness common to Liberals and Conservatives alike.

Liberals and Conservatives ONLY want to believe news sources that pander to their pre-conceived notions. (Fox News Channel and talk radio for Conservatives – NPR, CNN, Huffington Post and network news for Liberals) Both Liberals and Conservatives sneer at any unpleasant information they don’t want to believe and smugly dismiss it as propoganda spread by the opposition’s news outlets.

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January 5, 2012 · 11:38 pm

COOL FOOTBALL HELMET: CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY

 Location: Lebanon, TN

Site: http://www.gocumberlandathletics.com/ 

Comment: The Cumberland University teams are called the Bulldogs, even though you might think they were called the Eagles from that incredibly cool helmet logo. The Bulldogs may be known as an Continue reading →

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January 4, 2012 · 1:04 am

BAD MOVIE PAGE: DIAL: HELP (1988)

 DIAL: HELP (1988) – Category: A neglected bad movie classic that deserves a Plan 9- sized cult following. 

This 1988 horror film from Italy (but dubbed into English) deals with a young model, played by Charlotte Lewis, who finds her life turning hellish when she begins being tormented by living phones … yes, living phones. As always with me, I love to laugh at bad horor movies like this that are NOT trying to be funny, but are so disastrously bad and have such ludicrous premises that they are unintentional comedy classics. Remember my reviews of movies like Death Bed, about a killer bed; Deafula, about a deaf vampire and The Lift, about a killer elevator? Lump this flick in with those. 

Hardcore horror fans will be stunned to learn that the man behind this laughable mess is none other than Continue reading →

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January 3, 2012 · 12:29 am

NAIA COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPS DEFEAT THE NCAA FOOTBALL CHAMPS AGAIN

 For the second year in a row the college football champions of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics have defeated the football champions of NCAA Division 3 college football. The Saint Xavier University Cougars, the gridiron pride of Chicago, won Balladeer’s Bowl II by having my readers vote for them nearly two to one over the NCAA’s team, the Whitewater Warhawks. The Warhawks fall to 0-2 in Balladeer’s Bowl appearances, having lost to the NAIA’s CC Fighting Saints last year.

The Cougars from Rich Koz-land received Continue reading →

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January 1, 2012 · 6:16 pm

GUESS WHAT RELIGION THE SO-CALLED “SANTA KILLER” BELONGED TO?

Aziz Yazdanpanah, who allegedly committed the hate crime of killing six members of his family and then killing himself this past Christmas morning was also outraged that his daughter was dating someone outside his “faith.” If you guessed he belonged to the outdated, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynist religion called Islam you’d be correct. And let’s face it, the only people who couldn’t have guessed are delusional left wing political zealots who think they’re somehow “sticking it” to delusional right wing political zealots by whitewashing the Muslim faith in the many incidents like this that take place. 

I’ll point out again that I’m a non-believer when it comes to religion, and I think all such beliefs are just mythology, but even I have been unable to ignore the Continue reading →

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