Balladeer’s Blog reviewed the hilariously bad New Year’s Eve horror film Bloody New Year several years ago. One of my favorite bits is the odd but quirkily enjoyable song that plays over the opening credits. Here is the group behind that song – Cry No More – with Recipe for Romance.
Monthly Archives: December 2017
PRESIDENT TRUMP BOUGHT DINNER FOR HUNDREDS OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO HAD TO WORK ON CHRISTMAS DAY
I was extremely skeptical of Donald Trump when he first announced he was running for the presidency but I have to admit that he has pleasantly surprised me every step of the way.
I liked this seasonal gesture on his part, paying for Christmas Dinner spreads for hundreds of police officers who worked the Holiday. Obama would have bought meals for cop-KILLERS rather than cops. (I’m kidding … probably.)
Every day that neither Hillary Clinton nor Jeb Bush nor Barack Obama is president is a great day! I hope everyone had a Merry Trump-mas, from all of us Trump-O-Crats, Re-Trump-licans and the whole Trump-en Proletariat!
THE PURPLE DEATH (1895): ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION
THE PURPLE DEATH (1895) – Written by William Livingston Alden. Presented in the first person this story is narrated by a British gentleman staying in Italy. He becomes friendly with his neighbor, a German M.D. and bacteriologist named Dr Schmidt.
Subsequent conversations reveal that Schmidt is a good old-fashioned mad scientist who has some very odd sympathies. The German doctor sides with Anarchists (among the biggest bogey-men of the 1890s) and his only objection to the occasional assassinations that Anarchists commit is how impractical those crimes are. Continue reading
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WOMEN’S COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONS FOR 2017
Here’s one last round of congratulations for the 2017 women’s volleyball champions in the ELEVEN divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog.
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
National Champions – LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS
Runners-Up – Dordt College Defenders
2016 Champions – Hastings College Broncos
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division One
National Champions – BIOLA UNIVERSITY EAGLES
Runners-Up – Campbellsville University Tigers
2016 Champions – Trinity Christian College Trolls
NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association) Division Two
National Champions – MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY SABERCATS (Threepeat)
Runners-Up – Kentucky Christian University Knights
2016 Champions – Maranatha Baptist University Sabercats Continue reading
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AUGUST 2017’s BEST BLOG POSTS
Balladeer’s Blog continues its look at the Best of 2017 with the most popular blog posts from August.
NUMBER ONE – It’s no secret that I’m a non-believer in any of the world’s religions. It’s also no secret that what passes for American Liberalism has become a faith-based belief system as irrational as any other religion.
In this post I looked at the Democrat version of an Afterlife, since they pompously and absurdly pretend they are on THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY? Click HERE
NUMBER TWO – As Muslim Violence Awareness Year continued so did their annual pile-up of atrocities and ever-climbing body counts.
For the MUSLIM FASCIST ATROCITY ROUNDUP: AUGUST 10th click HERE
NUMBER THREE – Transgress with me once again as Balladeer’s Blog examined the faulty premises of so many of the Left-Wing Archie Bunkers of the world.
It’s a blog post that really struck a nerve:
To read WHITE PRIVILEGE, LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES click HERE
NUMBER FOUR – The blog post DEMOCRATS, THE SMIRKING JACKASSES OF LIFE took a good look at why so many of us who still lean leftward have grown to despise America’s Democrats and to regret having ever been associated with them.
For that item click HERE
NUMBER FIVE – Democrats – the Party of slavery, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Trail of Tears, the Japanese Internment, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Spoils System, Tammany Hall, the Gulf of Tonkin Lie and so much more – are boiling mad at their ongoing loss of credibility.
See DEMOCRATS DO NOT “OWN” BLACK VOTERS, FEMALE VOTERS, GAY VOTERS, THE POOR OR THE WORKING CLASS by clicking HERE
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2012)
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2017 comes to a close with this eeriest of all the versions to date!
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2012) – This adaptation of A Christmas Carol was a noble effort to try something different that was not just a gimmick. Ignore the negative IMDb reviews which accuse this adaptation of using “Elizabethan language.” They’re off by a few hundred years, since in reality the dialogue follows that in the Dickens novel of 1843.
This 2012 version of A Christmas Carol boasts absolutely beautiful cinematography. Its emphasis is on the eerie nature of the story and has the look of a horror film much of the time. It has assorted flaws which I’ll cover as we go along but I almost hate having to cover the negative aspects of such a brave experiment.
I will take a hundred creative attempts like this, which may fall short but are trying something new, over one more soulless item which updates the story to the modern age but has no emotion to it. Continue reading
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A TEEN TITANS CHRISTMAS CAROL
Christmas Carol-A-Thon 2017 continues here at Balladeer’s Blog!
A TEEN TITANS CHRISTMAS CAROL – Last year Balladeer’s Blog examined the 1973 Luke Cage, Hero For Hire version of A Christmas Carol. This time around I’ll take a look at Christmas 1967’s The Teen Titans’ Swingin’ Christmas Carol.
Swingin’ Christmas Carol may sound like the title of a Dean Martin Christmas Special but was really an issue of Teen Titans which paralleled the Dickens tale.
The Teen Titans was a team composed of the teen sidekicks of various DC Superheroes. Robin the Boy Wonder, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Aqua Lad and later Speedy, Hawk & Dove plus many others would come and go over the decades.
For this Christmas story we meet Ebenezer Scrounge, who runs a junkyard where he employees and abuses Bob Ratchet. Bob’s handicapped son Tiny Tom comes to visit his father and accidentally witnesses Scrounge’s secret partner – a crime boss called Mister Big – use an invention which turns old items in the junkyard brand new. Continue reading
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JULY 2017’s BEST
Balladeer’s Blog’s Best of 2017 continues!
NUMBER ONE – My two-part look at NEW DEMOCRAT SLOGANS was a comedy hit. This “Party of CEO’s” has come to deserve its reputation for having driven away all of us except pompous snobs and hilariously pretentious asses.
For this look at humorous slogans for this political party which Franklin Roosevelt and John F Kennedy would not even recognize CLICK HERE
AND FOR PART TWO CLICK HERE
NUMBER TWO – One of Balladeer’s Blog’s most popular Ancient Science Fiction posts EVER was this look at a very obscure 1896 work and its fascinating female lead.
Very fascinating.
For my review of THE INCUBATED GIRL click HERE
NUMBER THREE – Legendary Camille Paglia was in rare form this year, speaking on behalf of all of us who left the Democrats in disgust in recent years.
In July came CAMILLE PAGLIA BLAMES THE DEMOCRATS FOR DESTROYING JOURNALISM WITH THEIR ANTI-TRUMP HYSTERIA. Click HERE
NUMBER FOUR – For Frontierado Season this year one of my blog posts dealt with the story-telling possibilities inherent in a neglected aspect of Mormon history.
To read DANITES: GUNSLINGING “KNIGHTS” OF THE OLD WEST just click HERE
NUMBER FIVE – Another western figure got a lot of attention in July, a gunslinging lady who braved Old California on a stage coach route.
For my article on DUSTY DELIA: FEMALE STAGE COACH DRIVER click HERE
Filed under opinion, Uncategorized
SONG FROM SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
Here is the iconic Holiday standard Hooray For Santy Claus! It’s by the poor man’s Skitch Henderson – Milton De Lugg – and The Little Eskimos.
And here’s the version by Al “Green Hornet Theme” Hirt:
And from The Fleshtones, their 2008 version:
Naturally I won’t ignore the Sloppy Seconds’ cover:
And as the Sloppy Seconds go, so goes the Senor Tonto Christmas Combo:
And from 2013 it’s the new Remo Van Der Slott himself, Craig Davison:
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MISTER SCROOGE (1964)
Time for another post in Balladeer’s Blog’s Eighth annual orgy of entries on various versions of A Christmas Carol.
MR SCROOGE (1964) – Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog will remember the bizarre lengths I go to in order to track down every Carol that I can. This is one of those “don’t ask” situations. I don’t want to become an international criminal. (I’m kidding … maybe.)
Mr Scrooge was originally broadcast on December 21st, 1964 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It runs just an hour and stars Cyril Ritchard as Ebenezer Scrooge and the very appropriately named Eric Christmas as Marley’s Ghost. As with the Continue reading
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