A terrific video from this past Mother’s Day.
Monthly Archives: May 2022
STAR MAIDENS (1975-1976) FORGOTTEN TELEVISION
STAR MAIDENS (1975-1976) – This obscure (only 3 reviews to date on IMDb) British-German television series from the 1970s has the same kind of campy visual appeal as U.F.O., Space: 1999 and every other Gerry & Sylvia Anderson series in history.
A few years back, Balladeer’s Blog reviewed All That Glitters, the 1977 Norman Lear follow-up to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. All That Glitters was a five night per week soap opera parody set on a parallel Earth where women were in charge of everything and men were second-class citizens. Star Maidens was an earlier, 13-episode Euroseries that had cranked such a premise up to eleven AND treated it as serious science fiction.
The futuristic planet called Medusa was ruled by women with an iron fist, with men relegated to the roles of domestic servants or laborers in mines and factories, etc. Men were outrightly owned by women and the “Men’s Liberation Movement” was outlawed and hounded. Gareth Thomas of all people starred as one of two rebellious men who escape Medusa in a stolen spaceship and head for 1970s Earth. Continue reading
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DR. CUNLIFFE, INVESTIGATOR (1913) – ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION
DR. CUNLIFFE, INVESTIGATOR (1913) – Written by Harold Frankish. This book was a collection of short stories centered around Frankish’s fictional “scientific detective” Dr. Theodore Cunliffe.
A brilliant man, the British Cunliffe has granted himself enough strength to lift just over a ton and he is such a man of action that he wrestles with an ape in one story. A definite forerunner of later Pulp heroes, Dr. Cunliffe is a physician, scientist and criminologist who is often called in by Scotland Yard. Theodore is also a cosmopolitan world traveler and is well-versed in a variety of esoteric subjects.
The stories featuring his adventures:
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ATOMIC RAYS – The Adonis-like Dr. Cunliffe is called in by Scotland Yard when high-profile scientists begin to disappear. Cunliffe traces the disappearances to the mad scientist Dr. Burton, who has created a disintegration weapon powered by atomic rays. Our hero must prove Burton’s culpability in the evidence-free disintegration deaths of the missing scientists while making sure that he himself survives. Continue reading
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DEMOCRATS VS THE REST OF US: MAY 9th
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at just a few of the latest dispatches from the front lines of the Democrats’ war on the rest us.
COURAGEOUS VERNON JONES BLASTS THE DIVISIVE JOE BIDEN FOR HIS HATEMONGERING RHETORIC. More HERE.
CORRUPT YET SENILE JOE BIDEN AND HIS REGIME’S BENEFITS TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND DRUG TRAFFICKING.
CONGRESS CALLING OUT THE BIDEN REGIME’S CORRUPT IRAN DEAL.
DEMOCRAT TEACHERS FINALLY ADMIT THE FAILINGS OF THEIR REMOTE “LEARNING” (LMAO) FIASCO.
WESLEY HUNT AND OTHER REPUBLICANS IN RACIALLY MIXED MARRIAGES CALL OUT THE DEMOCRAT FEARMONGERING THAT INTERRACIAL MARRIAGES MAY BE BANNED. Look, I blast Republicans AND Democrats, but can we at least move beyond the absurd notions that Republicans are racist and “stupid.” It’s pretty clear BOTH major parties have plenty of racism and stupidity to go around among individual members.
ANOTHER LOOK AT WHY REPUBLICAN OFFICE-HOLDERS NEED TO GROW BACKBONES AND STOP IGNORING VOTER OUTRAGE. People can multi-task, y’know. Issues don’t have an expiration date after which you have to stop talking about them just because the Democrats’ media outlets say so.
BIDEN’S CENSORSHIP THUGS, RUN BY NUTTY NINA, BLASTED AGAIN. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
THE SOLARNAUTS (1967) – FORGOTTEN TELEVISION
THE SOLARNAUTS (1967) – It’s kind of a shame that this pilot for a science fiction series didn’t get picked up. The Solarnauts combined some of the best (and worst) elements of Star Trek and Doctor Who plus Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s countless “Supermarionation” programs like Thunderbirds, Supercar, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, etc.
This program featured a Star Fleet type organization of the future and its light, fluffy adventures – adventures that wouldn’t have been out of place on 1950s television so the show has a nice “retro” feel. Continue reading
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IRON MAN: 1970s CLASSICS 6 – DOCTOR SPECTRUM, THOR AND THE FREAK
For Part One of these Iron Man 1970s classics click HERE.
IRON MAN Vol 1 #65 (December 1973)
Title: The Cutting Edge of Death
Villain: Doctor Spectrum
Synopsis: This issue picks up right where the last one left off: Near the wreckage of Roxie Gilbert’s health food store, caused by the destructive battle between Iron Man and Dr. Spectrum. The huge, energy-charged scimitar that the villain created via his power ring Power Prism is trying to slice through our hero’s armor to kill him.
Meanwhile, the exhausted Iron Man is barely able to use his repulsor rays to hold off the enormous energy-sword. Dr. Spectrum gets distracted by another argument with the alien intelligence inside his Power Prism AND by a blow to the face by Roxie Gilbert, who is briefly abandoning her pacifist principles to save Iron Man, who has saved HER multiple times in the recent past.
Dr. Spectrum easily smacks aside Roxie, who runs to a fellow bystander, the former boxer Eddie March. Roxie tells him Iron Man needs more help than normal human beings can provide and wants to call in the Avengers. Instead, Eddie says he has a quicker idea but we are not yet shown what that idea IS. Continue reading
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NEWS ROUNDUP: MAY 6th
CNN POLL: SEVENTY-SEVEN PERCENT BLAST JOE BIDEN’S ECONOMY.
REPAIRMAN TARGETED BY DEMOCRAT MEDIA OUTLETS FOR HEROICALLY COMING FORWARD ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP (AND THE SCANDALS IT UNEARTHED) SUING SCHIFF, CNN, DAILY BEAST AND POLITICO. More HERE. And HERE.
DURHAM INVESTIGATION WINS CASE FOR ACCESS TO MORE OF HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN AND FUSION GPS DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” HOAX.
BIDEN REGIME PREVENTING THE MENTALLY UNFIT JOE BIDEN FROM SPEAKING WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER. And no wonder.
ALL 22 CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY TRUMP WON IN TUESDAY’S PRIMARIES IN OHIO AND INDIANA. More HERE. And HERE. Pay attention, because the moment any of Trump’s endorsed candidates lose the Democrats’ media outlets act like it means he’s “fading.”
GEORGIA DEMOCRAT EXPOSED FOR SPONSORING LEGISLATION RELATED TO THEIR PRIVATE BUSINESS INTERESTS. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
COOL-NAMED SPORTS TEAM: ALEXANDRIA COLLEGE
For some random fun, here’s another college with cool-named sports teams and a cool logo.
College: ALEXANDRIA COLLEGE
Team Name: LEGENDS
Location: Alexandria, MN Continue reading
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THROUGH THE HORN OR THE IVORY GATE (1905) ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION
THROUGH THE HORN OR THE IVORY GATE (1905) – Written by Anatole France. In this story a Frenchman, the tale’s narrator, finds himself in the year 2270 A.D. The large buildings that used to fill Paris have been replaced by small cottages inhabited by people whose tastes run to fine art and statuary.
There is no more pollution and no more honking of automobile horns. No vehicles or horse-drawn carriages use the curving streets. Trains apparently no longer run through Paris as well. Instead, people travel via all manner of aircraft in the skies above.
The vessels move through motors and lighter than air technology. The shapes of the aircraft are based on birds and fish, and our narrator describes the sight of that traffic by saying the sky now “seemed to be a combination of heaven and ocean.” Continue reading
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FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: MAY 4th
Time for another installment of Faculty Lounge Fascist Roundup! It’s no secret that privileged white Democrats aka “baizuos” have distorted the educational system into a partisan “church” of irrational thought and ugly intolerance.
DEMOCRAT “TEACHERS” (LMAO) RECRUITING SCHOOL CHILDREN TO INFORM ON FAMILY MEMBERS AND ATTACK THEM WITH DEMOCRAT PARTY PROPAGANDA. People who feel that “teaching is a political act” should never have young minds at their mercy.
GROTESQUE DEMAGOGUE JOE BIDEN TELLS THE DEMOCRATS WHO RUN THE TEACHER’S UNIONS THAT STUDENTS ARE “THEIR” CHILDREN. Democrats continue with their fascist claims that children belong to the state and not to their parents.
BECAUSE DEMOCRATS PRETEND MEN CAN MENSTRUATE, SCHOOLS IN OREGON NOW MUST INSTALL TAMPON DISPENSERS IN BOYS RESTROOMS. More HERE. “The Menstrual Dignity Act for Students” is something so absurd only the mindless political robots called 21st Century Democrats could refer to it with a straight face. Continue reading
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