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Halloween Month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog. Today I decided to take time out from my magnum opus titled Was Paul McCartney Really John Lennon? to send a musical shoutout to Motorhead’s Ace of Spades.
This is my favorite song about a gravedigger. Not even those songs in Repo! The Genetic Opera come close. But let’s face it, I think we’d all LOVE to hear Paul Sorvino and Paris Hilton performing a duet of Ace of Spades for Lemmy’s birthday.
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Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween continues:
THE WOLF IN THE GARDEN (1931) – Written by Alfred Hoyt Bill. This neglected novel is ideal for people who go in for horror tales set long ago. In this case the 1790s.
New Dordrecht, a town in New York’s Hudson Valley, becomes the home of the fallen Count de Saint Loup, a French aristocrat fleeing the guillotine during the French Revolution. Anyone who remembers that “loup” is French for wolf will immediately know that this figure will be our title werewolf. (Though his deadly hound DeRetz is a red herring at first.)
The Count transferred much of his wealth before fleeing his homeland so he is initially welcomed as a prominent new citizen in New Dordrecht. Unfortunately Count de Saint Loup soon displays the overbearing, snobbish airs that drove the French underclasses to overthrow the aristocrats in the first place.
People who get on the wrong side of the former “aristo” start to turn up dead after getting attacked by a monstrous wolf-like creature. Continue reading
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Democrats do not understand the meaning of the word “debunked.” The Biden scandals are not “debunked” just because Joe and Hunter Biden have given their side of the story. An excuse from accused criminals does not “debunk” the accusations. On top of which Joe and Hunter keep getting caught in lies, with Hunter even contradicting his father’s claim that they never talked about Hunter’s influence-peddling scam in the Ukraine.
The Hill’s John Solomon has uploaded documents regarding the Ukraine/ Biden Crime Family investigations and has found plenty of discrepancies that would tend to disprove Quid Pro Joe and his Underboss Hunter’s version of events.
For the link, Continue reading
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Per the Glitternight Index:
NCAA Division Two: 1. VALDOSTA STATE BLAZERS ### 2. MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS ### 3. TARLETON STATE TEXANS ### 4. NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE BEARCATS ### 5. OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY TIGERS ###
6. GRAND VALLEY STATE LAKERS ### 7. FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS ### 8. UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS GREYHOUNDS ### 9. COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES OREDIGGERS ### 10. UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI MULES ### Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog’s month-long celebration of Halloween will as usual feature reviews of horror stories and movies sprinkled in with my usual topics. This year I’m starting off with Brightburn.
BRIGHTBURN (2019) – This mid-level budget movie has been criminally underrated in my opinion. Its horror twist on the usual superhero story (especially Superman) is well-handled and should have been just the thing audiences flocked to for a change of pace from the flood of superhero movies in recent years.
The film skillfully combines horror with science fiction and Jackson A Dunn as the alien child Brandon makes for the creepiest kid this side of Damien in The Omen. The kills in Brightburn are fairly gory but only in one instance is it dwelt upon, and the scene definitely earns that emphasis.
Right up front I’ll mention that you do have to make with a BIG suspension of disbelief. The movie asks viewers to accept the premise that in this age of unending documentation and requirements for child vaccinations that a childless couple could successfully do a fake adoption of a baby from outer space whose spaceship crashed near their farmhouse.
At any rate the couple, the Breyers, live in a remote small-town in Kansas, so if you really have to, you can assume that has helped them carry out their deception. That town is named Brightburn, which provides the film with its title. Continue reading
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