BALLADEER’S BLOG HAS TURNED THIRTEEN YEARS OLD!

Balladeer’s Blog

THANK YOU once again to all of you readers for making Balladeer’s Blog so enjoyable to write. As I always say, the unusual and controversial items I sometimes churn out here mean that readers have to be open-minded and very secure in their own beliefs not to just take offense and leave.

Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.

BAD MOVIES: There was Kong Island (1968), Invasion from Inner Earth (1974), Raiders of Atlantis (1983), Murdercycle (1999), 365 Days (2020), Films with William Shatner’s Wife, Jungle Jim Movies, An American Hippie in Israel (1972), Kommissar X Movies, Andromeda Nebula (1967), The Keep (1983), Hitler – Dead or Alive (1942), My Top H.G. Lewis Movies,

A MERCILESS EXAMINATION OF THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS: One of my most read items of the past 12 months HERE.

ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: I reviewed The Artificial Mother (1894), A.D. 2000 (1890), The Sickle of Fire (1896), The Warstock (1898), Bellona’s Husband (1887), Mars Revealed (1880), The Emperor of the Air (1910), The Captivity of the Professor (1901), End of an Epoch (1901).

MORE FOOL KILLER LORE FROM OVER A CENTURY AGO: April 1913, May 1913, July 1913

COMEDIES: MODERN PARODY HALL OF FAME: The full breakdown HERE.

POLITICAL CARTOONS, MEMES AND NEWS ROUNDUPS: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

PONY EXPRESS RIDERS: Pony Bob, The Man Called Boston, Irish Tommy

THE PEOPLE VS JOE BIDEN: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN: Queen of the Black Coast and Amra, and Curse of the Conjurer

NEGLECTED GUNSLINGERS: Dutch Henry, and Buckskin Frank

MEXICO’S MST3K: I reviewed it HERE. There’s also Dark Jungle Theater HERE.

CASIMIR PULASKI: REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO: I took a look at his career HERE.

TRUMP VS THE TWO RIVAL GANGS OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS CALLED DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS: Donald Trump Scares the Establishment Like Eugene Debs Once Did, Trump vs America’s Corrupt Political Dynasties, Biden’s Gestapo Raids Trump’s Home, Twittergate Further Confirms a Fraudulent Election in 2020. Trump’s Enemies Ensure His Martyrdom.

HALLOWEEN ITEMS: The Iron Rose (1973), The Riders of the Skulls (1965), Horror Cinema’s New Icon, The Nightmare Ends on Halloween I & 2, Mini-Munsters (1973), Eight Marvel Horror Heroes.

SUPERHEROES: Minute Man, Doc Samson, Spider Woman, Batman: The Real Year One, She-Hulk, Bloodstone, Black Orchid, Marvel Team-Up, Paladin, The Creeper, Marvel Mystery Comics (1940s), Hercules joins the Avengers, Skull the Slayer, Blonde Phantom and Shanna the She-Devil.

FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: July 27th, August 31st.

THE KIKUYU CREATION MYTH FROM KENYA: HERE

ANOTHER BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN LEAVES THE DEMOCRATS: HERE, And another one HERE, TULSI GABBARD leaves, too, as does sitting Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema HERE.

N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE: The absolute best. 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972.

ONE YEAR SINCE JOE BIDEN’S AFGHANISTAN DISASTER: HERE.

SANTA CLAUS VILLAGE: HERE.

2022’s MOST REPULSIVE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS: HERE.

THE GRAND DETECTIVES (1975): Television adaptation of Nick Carter, Inspector Wens, Auguste Dupin, Slim Callaghan, Monsier Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes. HERE.

RAFAEL SABATINI NOVELS: HERE.