Monthly Archives: August 2015

August 4, 2015 · 7:30 pm

VINTAGE POSTERS ONLINE AUCTION

1917 World War One Enlistment Poster

1917 World War One Enlistment Poster

On August 5th at 10:30am Eastern Time a selection of 700 vintage posters will be auctioned off at Invaluable.com .

Among them will be this item to the left, Lot 99, a recruitment poster to inspire Americans to enlist in the fight against the Kaiser and company.

Other posters available include:

Lot 163: NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978). [THE FOUR FREEDOMS.] Group of 4 posters.

Estimate $3,000 to $4,000

On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the United States Congress on the escalating threat to American security caused by the war raging in Europe. In this now famous “Four Freedoms” speech, Roosevelt encouraged America to step up war production and put the nation in the mindset for the inevitable involvement in the war.

Lot 48: HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901). MAY MILTON

Estimate $10,000 to $15,000

His attraction to May Belfort, who sang kitschy love songs while holding a cat, resulted in a poster for her. It also produced this poster for her lover, May Milton, an English dancer. It is one of the best examples of Lautrec’s brilliant use of blank paper to help create an image. Against the white background, he evokes the perspective of the stage with a few lines, and conveys the dancer’s figure in a Continue reading →

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August 4, 2015 · 6:09 pm

WNBA CURRENT STANDINGS

New York LibertyEASTERN CONFERENCE – 1. NEW YORK LIBERTY (13-6)    ###    2. WASHINGTON MYSTICS (11-7)    ###    3. CHICAGO SKY (12-8)    ###    4. INDIANA FEVER (11-8)    ###    5. CONNECTICUT SUN (9-9)    ###    6. ATLANTA DREAM (7-13)    ###     Continue reading →

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August 3, 2015 · 10:30 pm

THE WILD, WILD WEST REVISITED (1979)

Wild Wild West RevisitedTHE WILD WILD WEST REVISITED (1979) – Frontierado is this Friday, August 7th.

A better title for this Wild Wild West telefilm would have been Night of the Half-Assed Reunion Special. (For non-fans of this old Robert Conrad show let me explain: every episode of The Wild Wild West bore the title “Night of the Such and Such”, just like every Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode was titled “The Such and Such Affair” and every Friends episode was called “The One with Such and Such.”)

The original 1965-1969 television series starred the athletic and charismatic Robert Conrad as Jim West, a Secret Service Agent in the 1800’s American West. His cover was that he was a high-stakes gambler/ gunfighter who traveled in his own private train car. Ross Martin portrayed his hammy professional actor sidekick, Artemus Gordon.

The Wild Wild West was a genuine classic, combining James Bond/ Napoleon Solo spy antics with the gunplay and mis en scene of the best Westerns. Jim West was forever saving the country – and sometimes the world – from a long line of suave or at least colorful villains. Those villains inevitably had sultry female accomplices, about eighty percent of whom seemed to be played by Michelle Carey.    Continue reading →

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August 3, 2015 · 4:53 pm

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES: ANOTHER ODD PARALLEL

liberals and conservativesAs always, Balladeer’s Blog is the only site on the web that equally criticizes American Liberals and American Conservatives. 

* Liberals irrationally consider the United States to be the greatest villain in history and their prejudices cause them to ignore any and all evidence to the contrary. 

* Conservatives irrationally consider the United States to be the greatest hero in history and their prejudices cause them to ignore any and all evidence to the contrary.

FOR MORE OF THESE CLICK HERE:  https://glitternight.com/2012/07/09/liberals-and-conservatives-and-why-we-despise-them-both/  Continue reading →

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August 2, 2015 · 5:10 pm

NEGLECTED FEMALE GUNSLINGERS OF THE WEST

Frontierado is this Friday, August 7th! In honor of the season here is a look at female gunslingers who don’t get as much attention as the big names like Calamity Jane, Belle Starr and Annie Oakley.

Queen Kitty

Queen Kitty

QUEEN KITTY – Kitty LeRoy was also known as Kitty the Schemer, Dancing Kitty, the Female Arsenal and much later as Deadwood Kitty. Queen Kitty is the most appropriate nickname in part because of her last name but mostly because she was variously known as “the Queen of the Hoofers”, “the Dancing Queen”, “the Queen of the Barbary Coast” and “the Queen of the Faro Tables”.

Kitty was born in 1850 and by the age of 10 was earning money for her family as a professional dancer and novelty act in her home state of Michigan. By 14 she was performing exclusively at adult venues and had added trick shooting to her repertoire.

Her most famous shooting trick at this time was shooting apples off the heads of volunteers. At age 15 Queen Kitty was performing in New Orleans and married her first husband – the only man in the city brave enough to let Kitty shoot apples off his head while she was riding around him at a full gallop.

LeRoy loved flirting and sleeping around, however, and this led to the breakup of her first marriage within a year. By 1870 Queen Kitty had married a second time, to a man named Donnaly, with whom she had a daughter. The Queen had gravitated more and more to the Faro tables, making a killing as a celebrity dealer.

With Dallas as a home base Kitty and her husband would travel throughout Texas with LeRoy earning money dancing and dealing Faro. Kitty also earned a name for being able to handle any violence that came her way from sore losers and was involved in multiple gunfights and knife fights in dangerous saloons. Continue reading →

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August 1, 2015 · 3:58 pm

MALDOROR 6:2 AND 6:3

Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the macabre 1868 French language work The Songs of Maldoror.

CANTO SIX: STANZA TWO

Did I mention that I think Death-Stalker would make a good Maldoror?

Did I mention that I think Death-Stalker would make a good Maldoror?

This 6th and final Canto of The Songs of Maldoror is entirely different from all the previous Cantos. Instead of being self-contained episodes that jump around to different periods in the long life of the supernatural main character these closing Stanzas form an extended narrative set entirely in late 1860s Paris.

The story details Maldoror’s efforts to seduce a 16 year old youth named Mervyn into abandoning his family and becoming his latest lover and traveling companion as well as the attempts by Mervyn’s family and the forces of God to save the young man. This sudden change of approach as well as the author Isidore Ducasse’s obsession with precise movements through the streets of Paris in this section has spawned a conspiracy theory of sorts among some circles of Maldoror readers.

For those readers Ducasse is using Maldoror as a fictional stand-in for himself as he relates a real-life seduction and murder of a young man at his own hands. In the eyes of those readers these final Stanzas even include coded directions to the location in Paris where Ducasse supposedly hid the body.  Continue reading →

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