Previously Balladeer’s Blog featured NAIA college baseball players who were drafted by Major League Baseball teams. Now it’s the CCCAA’s turn, starting with the 2015 Champions.
ORANGE COAST COLLEGE PIRATES
David Hill to the Rockies
Chris Iriart to the Athletics
Kyle Dowdy to the Tigers
Zach Nehrir to the Diamondbacks
Collin Yelich to the Braves
Jacob Hill to the Indians Continue reading
Filed under College Baseball
Bruce Campbell after a LOT of surgery.
BALLADEER’S BLOG SCOOP: My unimpeachable sources in the industry – and by the industry, I mean the business – have informed me that cult figure Bruce Campbell (pictured) was so inspired by Bruce Jenner’s recent decision to go female that he has found the courage to do so himself!
“I started re-evaluating my life a few years ago when I learned that reruns of Jack of All Trades were being used to torture prisoners at Gitmo”, Campbell confided to Balladeer’s Blog.
“It made me seriously rethink my legacy and how I’d like to be remembered. And I want to be remembered as the busty stripper I’ve felt gestating inside me ever since one of the Raimi brothers said to me ‘ Y’know, if I was drunk enough I could go for a real cutey-pie like you.’ … Or maybe it was Julius Carry who said that. It’s all a blur right now.” Continue reading
Filed under humor, Sex Symbols
Congratulations to the College Rodeo Champions for 2015!
National Champions – TARLETON STATE TEXANS
Runners-Up – Oklahoma Panhandle State Aggies
2014 Champions – Tarleton State Texans
Filed under college sports
Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror.
SPREADING MY WINGS INTO MY TORTURED MEMORY
This stanza starts out with vague hints about what is going on but gradually becomes clearer.
The supernatural being Maldoror finds himself haunted by the ghost of the first person he ever killed. In an account that – naturally – contradicts some of the versions of his past that he has previously related, our protagonist recalls what happened. Continue reading
Filed under Maldoror
EASTERN CONFERENCE – 1. CONNECTICUT SUN (6-1) ### 2. WASHINGTON MYSTICS (4-2) ### 3. NEW YORK LIBERTY (4-3) ### 4. CHICAGO SKY (3-3) ### 5. INDIANA FEVER (3-5) ### 6. ATLANTA DREAM (3-5) ### Continue reading
Filed under WNBA
A perfect example of why huffy and pretentious American Liberals are the only people who take Salon dot com seriously:
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES
It’s no secret that Islam is the sole remaining untamed beast among the world’s religions. The month-long Ramadan holiday is a long celebration of those Muslim sacraments of killing, killing and more killing. We’re just a few days into the Ramadan Murder-Palooza for 2015 and I’ll be periodically updating the violence perpetrated in the name of that reactionary pack of savage superstitions. Decade after decade, century after century Islam is forever retarding the rest of the world’s social progress, ESPECIALLY REGARDING WOMEN’S RIGHTS.
June 19th
The City: Anbar The Body Count: A Muslim suicide bomber (15 years old) takes at least 30 funeral attendees with them as they self-detonate.
June 20th Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES
FATHER’S DAY (2011) – I DEMAND A TEAM-UP OF AHAB FROM FATHER’S DAY AND ASH WILLIAMS FROM THE EVIL DEAD FILMS (and upcoming television series).
Sorry, I had to get that out of my system right off the bat. Ahab, the eye-patch sporting hero of the Astron 6 horror film Father’s Day is in my opinion the one true successor to Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams. And considering how unfair the ending of this movie is for Ahab and his two sidekicks a case could even be made for them replacing Ash as the most royally screwed character in the history of gore-soaked horror comedies.
It’s difficult to review this dark, grotesque gem without resorting to a series of catch phrases like “Goes where Dead Alive and similar movies failed to go” or “What Grindhouse hath wrought” or even “Twink and Walnut: They’re NOT Muppets!” Let me start with a more practical line: Do not watch this movie if you can not handle the most offensive violence, concepts, gore and deranged sexuality imaginable.
The overall style of this flick is the faux-1970’s grindhouse style made fashionable by (what else) Grindhouse but for my money Father’s Day is much more entertaining than Planet of Terror or Death Proof. It also doesn’t become a slave to its style like the faux-1980’s movies House of the Devil and Beyond the Black Rainbow.
Father’s Day deals with the Father’s Day Killer, a demented man named Chris Fuchman (pronounced … well, I’m sure you can guess) who rapes fathers, devours their penises and then kills them. Get ready for a series of scenes in which older men who have “Dad Bodies” with pudgy butts get taken from behind by the morbidly obese Fuchman (Mackenzie Murdock). No cutaways. The action is front and center. And that includes the penis-eating. At any rate the Father’s Day murders are just the tip of a Satanic iceberg of evil. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies
The 21st Century love goddess called Casey James offering birthday greetings to Balladeer’s Blog.
Balladeer’s Blog
Yes, Balladeer’s Blog turns FIVE years old today! Thank you to the beautiful Casey James who took time out from stealing hearts and kicking butts to wish my site a Happy Birthday!
For some announcements and a lot MORE pics of the incredibly lovely Casey read on: Continue reading
Filed under Sex Symbols
Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror. This time around our main character encounters a fellow supernatural being with a horrific origin story.
THE AMPHIBIOUS MAN
This 7th Stanza of the 4th Canto from The Songs of Maldoror finds Maldoror standing on a rocky outcropping along a seashore. It is sunset on a summer day and his preternatural senses have enabled him to spot a strange figure off in the distance. With his usual contempt for humanity Maldoror notices that none of the mere mortals in the vicinity have detected the strange being swimming in the sea.
The figure in question is a naked man with a mostly human body but short, stubby arms and legs plus webbed hands and feet. A huge dorsal fin protrudes from the amphibious man’s back and various schools of fish follow in his wake like he is their leader. The strange hybrid figure frolics with porpoises and outperforms them at leaping from the sea and diving spectacularly back into the water, resurfacing hundreds of meters away.
Three normal human beings have made the mistake of lingering too near Maldoror and commenting on how they cannot make out what the monstrous man sees in the far-off waves. Our vile protagonist grows annoyed at their slack-jawed incomprehension and – particularly perturbed at this open-mouthed confusion – kills them by breaking their jaws. He wrenches them apart so far that the three twitch for a time and then die, and Maldoror admires his handiwork, joking about how outrageously abnormal the corpses look with their jaws ripped open so widely. Continue reading
Filed under Maldoror
Balladeer's Blog 