Monthly Archives: June 2016

SUPERNATURAL (1933) ON THE TEXAS TWENTY-SEVEN FILM VAULT

Supernatural 1933Before MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault!

Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the mid-1980s.

EPISODE ORIGINALLY BROADCAST: Saturday April 19th, 1986 from 10:30pm to 1:00am.

EXTRAS: This episode featured footage of our Film Vault Technicians First Class Randy and Richard’s promotional appearance at Six Flags Mall in nearby Arlington, TX.Supernatural 2

HOST SEGMENTS: One particular Host Segment featured one of the show’s behind-the- scenes people portraying Commando Cody complete with helmet and rocket pack. He was portraying the character because the Commando Cody serial Radar Men from the Moon was the current serial being shown before the movie each week on The Texas 27 Film Vault.

Since Randy Clower still outranked his co-host Richard Malmos (at least until a few episodes later) in the fictional Film Vault Corps (“The few, the proud, the sarcastic”) their relationship often featured the type of abusive “Host and Second Banana” dynamic like that between Dr Morgus and his lab assistant Chopsley or Zacherle and his wife My Dear or Dr Forester and TV’s Frank.  Continue reading

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OBAMA VOWS: “IF ONE MORE MUSLIM SHOOTS GAY PEOPLE I WILL LOCK UP EVERY CHRISTIAN IN THIS COUNTRY!”

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“I would rather have a hundred Americans get killed than have one single Muslim fanatic be inconvenienced!”

With obvious emotion in his voice, Barack Obama stated that he is SO tired of Muslim atrocities making him look like a fool that he will begin arbitrarily imprisoning Christians after every such incident. Obama ignored the fact that the Ramadan Massacre in Orlando on June 12th was committed by a Muslim man who blamed his shooting spree on Obama’s drone strikes on other Muslims … among other things.

“Omar was obviously mistaken,” Obama clarified for an adoring press,”I heard somebody say they knew somebody who thinks the guy might have blamed the attack on Donald Trump. Either way my plan going forth is to inflict increasingly draconian punishments on innocent American citizens following EVERY terrorist attack.”  

Next the little man “pivoted,” as is his wont, to the little boy in Florida eaten by an alligator and stated he had a hunch the alligator was an NRA member.  

Hillary Clinton spoke for Democrats everywhere when she said “Once the American people get used to the fact that THEY are ALWAYS the problem life will be much simpler for them.” 

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HAPPY BLOOM’S DAY 2016

jamesjoyceYes, it’s the 16th of June, better known to James Joyce geeks like me as Bloom’s Day. The day is named in honor of Leopold Bloom, the Jewish advertising sales rep and Freemason who is one of the major characters in Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The novel also brings along Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of his earlier novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

For those unfamiliar with this work, Ulysses is Joyce’s stream-of-consciousness novel in which he metaphorically features the events from the Odyssey in a single day – June 16th, 1904, in Dublin. (The day he met Nora Barnacle, the woman he would eventually marry after living together for decades) Bloom represents Ulysses/Odysseus, Stephen represents Telemachus and Leopold’s wife, Molly Bloom, represents Penelope.

The novel is jam-packed with Continue reading

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FOOLKILLER 14: DOOMSDAY TO THE INFINITE POWER

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Foolkiller with his Purification Gun

Since superheroes are all the rage Balladeer’s Blog’s “Script Doctoring” of Marvel’s handling of Foolkiller (Greg Salinger) continues with part fourteen. 

FOR PART ONE CLICK  HERE 

This time around I rewrite The Defenders # 89 and bring to a conclusion this tale about the secrets behind Foolkiller’s costume and his Purification Gun.

Our hero and his fellow Defenders try to save countless universes from Thog the Netherspawn.

The name Foolkiller is based on the figure from 19th Century American Folklore.

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OBAMA IDENTIFIES AS A WOMAN; BECOMES FIRST FEMALE U.S. PRESIDENT

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BARACK OBAMA: AMERICA’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT

When American Liberalism became a faith-based belief system as irrational as any other religion many atheists like me started leaving it behind. The most recent Papal Bull from the Democratic Party pretended that a person can simply “identify” as a member of the opposite sex and ALAKAZAM – it is to be considered true by their co-religionists.  

In that spirit Pope Barack “identified”as a woman today, becoming our first female president and thus letting him get in yet another laugh at Hillary Clinton’s expense. Well, she can at least try to become the first elected female president, like the distinction between Theodore Roosevelt (the youngest man to become president – when McKinley was assassinated) and John F Kennedy (the youngest man to be elected president).  

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“Why me? … Why me alla time?”

Now I don’t want ANY of you haters trying to say that this does NOT make Little Barry the first female president. After all, Pope Barack has threatened to use all the power of the federal government to force rational people to pretend that simply calling yourself a woman means that you magically become one. Even if you go back to “identifying” as a man on a whim.

I will not be forced to pretend that people can get crucified and then rise from the dead, I will not be forced to pretend that the Muslim child rapist Muhammad rose into the heavens and I will not be forced to pretend that a man with a beard is a woman just because he says so. As Voltaire aptly observed “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

And no, mindless Obama supporters, I’m not a conservative. I support legalizing marijuana, I support free speech, I’m pro-choice on abortion, I support social programs AND I’ve been a supporter of Gay Marriage since YEARS before Little Barry felt it was politically safe enough to have his own opinion “evolve” from opposing it (the gutless punk even voted for DOMA as a Senator) to supporting it. Continue reading

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CROWLEY: DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW

guillotineThat famed saying attributed to Aleister Crowley nicely summarizes the position that the repulsive white collar criminals of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are all but forcing on the rest of us. These sickening figures who spend their entire careers barely one step ahead of a criminal indictment actually think they’re fit to dictate the terms under which the rest of us are to live our lives while they slither through history circumventing those same terms.
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MUSLIM SAVAGE KNIFES TWO IN FRANCE: OBAMA BLAMES THE NRA

OBAMA: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS THE MUSLIM VOTE, THEREFORE WE MUST CONVINCE THEM THAT OUR PARTY IS ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN THEM AND MOBS OF HATE-FILLED AMERICANS!

OBAMA: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANTS THE MUSLIM VOTE, SO I DON’T CARE HOW MANY OF THE REST OF YOU DIE! YOU AND ALL OF YOUR LOVED ONES ARE EXPENDABLE, YOU DAMN PEASANTS!

What kind of savages intentionally target a police commander AND their innocent spouse and child? Oh, yeah … Muslim savages. RAMADAN continues with  yet another Muslim attack in the name of the Islamic State (Obamastan). The Muslim fanatic stabbed his male victim to death and slit the throat of his wife. Police were able to rescue the couple’s child before the Islamist could kill them, too.

Though the attack happened overseas Barack Obama IMMEDIATELY took to the airwaves to insist that the attack had nothing to do with Islam but was the fault of the NRA … or America’s “Knife Culture” or the Crusades … or Donald Trump … or solar flares … or something … but definitely NOT Islam. He then said that the attack was proof that Americans need to reevaluate themselves. Hey, the pathetic little man is like Pavlov’s Dogs! Instead of a bell he reacts to all Muslim attacks by exonerating Islam, blaming other people and insisting that Americans need to reevaluate themselves.

France, on the other hand, has an actual ADULT as Head of State, and Francoise Hollande never tries to blame innocent people for the bloodshed caused by Islam. Speaking as firmly as Little Barry Obama does ONLY when trashing his own country Hollande spoke movingly and, unlike Obama, seemed to ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE DEAD VICTIMS! Wow! I wonder what it’s like to live in a country with a leader like that? 

 

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VIETNAMESE WAR GOD THAN GIONG

Than GiongTHAN GIONG – Vietnamese god of war and 1 of the 4 main deities in their mythology (often called The Four Immortals). The mother of Than Giong once fell into one of the enormous footprints left from long ago by Khong Lo, the primordial giant. She thereby became pregnant (you know mythology!) and gave birth to a baby who was always silent and unmoving for the 1st several years of his life. At length during an invasion by China the reigning member of the Hung Vuong Dynasty sent messengers around the kingdom asking for any help that could be given against the invaders.
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The baby spoke for the first time, telling his parents to bring the messenger in their village, Phu Dong Village , to him. He was brought and the baby identified himself as a god who would repel the invasion. Because the child talked like an adult the messenger and the villagers believed him. The messenger went to tell the reigning Hung Vuong, while Than Giong’s parents and the other villagers obeyed the child’s instructions to bring him all the food they could find. Over the next days the child consumed enormous quantities of rice, pork, beef, fish and vegetables, growing and growing all the while.

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COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: CANKDESKA CIKANA COLLEGE

Cankdeska Cikana Comm Coll C4CANKDESKA CIKANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE 

Team Name: “C-4”

Location: Fort Totten, ND

Division: AIHEC (American Indian Higher Education Commission)

Comment:  How terrific is that team nickname? Yes, the nickname refers to the four C’s in the institution’s full name. But … Continue reading

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MUSLIM SAVAGES SLAUGHTER PATRONS OF GAY NIGHTCLUB

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… And he certainly has, hasn’t he?

My sympathy goes out to the latest victims of Islam. A Muslim gunman in Orlando acted on behalf of the Islamic State, hence the plural title.

As I’ve stated in the past there are people dear to me who are female and there are people dear to me who are gay. I know how they would be treated in a world full of people too cowardly to challenge the superstitious savagery called Islam. Once again the blood-soaked fanatics of that most backward of all religions have done nothing but kill and kill and kill – in this case simply because their targets were gay.    

Islamophobia posterBarack Obama, the weakest, most inept and most cowardly little man ever to be president still cannot bring himself to condemn radical Muslims. Instead, that gutless and hypocritical champion of transgender bathrooms wilts like a flower when faced with REAL hatred and intolerance.

Obama compounded his idiocy by calling for GUN CONTROL to prevent incidents like this! Uh, yeah, Little Barry, Muslim fanatics are going to say “Oh, darn! Foiled again!” when faced with the need to break laws to obtain weaponry. Barack lives in that same realm of unreality that the gutless American Left refuses to leave.

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This barely human political robot has just convinced me that people who act snobbish about Donald Trump are delusional weaklings. NOBODY could be a more embarrassing president than Little Barry Obama.

American Liberals, with their reaction to yet ANOTHER slaughter courtesy of Islam, have demonstrated once again why so many of us stopped considering ourselves Liberals. If you Liberals EVER develop enough backbone to criticize anybody IN ADDITION TO white, Christian, Americans – get back to me.

And for any pieces of garbage who can never be bothered to defend any religion EXCEPT Islam, don’t waste my time. I consider ALL religions to be irrational and blood-soaked, it’s just that I don’t follow your cowardly example by pretending that other religions are “just as bad” as Islam in this day and age.

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