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. You folks are the greatest!
Here are some of my most popular blog posts from the past 12 months.
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Burt Reynolds and Darren McGavin’s western series RIVERBOAT (1959-1961), Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s Five Tomorrows (1970) and Between Time and Timbuktu (1972), Heimskringla! (1969), Peter Pan (1976), Thirteen Against Fate (1966), The Man Hunter (1973), City Beneath the Sea (1962) and Secret Beneath the Sea (1963), Shirley Temple’s Storybook (1958-1961), Desert Crusader (1968), Frightmare Theater (2015-2022).
AMERICAN REVOLUTION – Neglected battles of: Late 1781, March 1776, PLUS Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
FORGOTTEN GUNSLINGERS – Comanche Jack, Jim Leavy, California Jim, Ferd the Dandy, Long Henry, and Temple Houston – Sam Houston’s Son.
SILENT MOVIES – Since last year I reviewed: Theda Bara’s Movies, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Metropolis (1927), Conrad Veidt: Silent Horror Film Star, Douglas Fairbanks’ 1916 drug comedy about “Coke Ennyday,” The Man from Painted Post (1917), A Modern Musketeer (1917), Alfred Hitchcock’s Silent Movies, Harry Houdini’s Silent Movies, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Teddy the Great Dane, and Dick Turpin (1925).
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Life in a Thousand Worlds (1905), The Monster Maker (1897), Land of the Changing Sun (1894), An Automatic Enigma (1872, 1878), and Another World (1873).
SPAIN’S HOMEMADE SUPERHEROES – A look at the incredible characters and storylines from Iberia, Inc. in the 1990s. Click HERE.
QUALITY MOVIES – The 14 Amazons (1972), The Elusive Avengers (1967), The White Reindeer (1952), The Fourth Reich (1990).
THE BLACK WESTERN THOMASINE & BUSHROD (1974) – Click HERE.
FOOL KILLER: THE KLARENC WADE MAK VERSION (1917-1918) – Click HERE.
THE ABSOLUTE BEST EVER NEWS, MEMES AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP FROM JUNE OF 2023 – Click HERE.
WESTERN DIME NOVEL CHARACTERS – Hurricane Nell, Denver Doll, Rosebud Rob, Baltimore Bess and Cinammon Chip.
BAD MOVIES – Surf Nazis Must Die! (1987), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Please Don’t Touch Me (1959, 1963), The Lighter Side of Jorg Buttgereit, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein (1973) and Andy Warhol’s Dracula (1974), Lucio Fulci Triple Feature, The Street Fighter (1974), Supersonic Saucer (1956), Masters of Venus (1962), Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967), Tales from the Quadead Zone (1987) and Furious (1984).
REUTERS: DONALD TRUMP REVEALED TO BE ONLY LIVING U.S. PRESIDENT NOT DESCENDED FROM SLAVE HOLDERS – Click HERE.
MARVEL COMICS – Every publication from: January 1967, January 1968, January 1969, January 1972, January 1973, January 1974, January 1975. 1950s Characters.
THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO, REVOLUTIONARY WAR HERO – Click HERE.
GINA CARANO – Click HERE.
DC’s LEGION OF SUPERHEROES – HERE. Fatal Five vs the Legion of Superheroes HERE.
OVERLOOKED JOHN BUNYAN WORKS – THE HOLY WAR (1682), and OF ANTICHRIST AND HIS RUIN (1692). They deserve to be remembered every bit as much as Pilgrim’s Progress in my opinion.
JUSTICE SOCIETY STORIES: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1951, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979.
A VHS CHRISTMAS CAROL: LIVE (2020-2022) – Click HERE.
BALLADEER’S BLOG RANKS THE PRESIDENTS – Click HERE. I absolutely guarantee that it will surprise you and I’m not joking. I’m neither Democrat nor Republican, but an Independent Voter.
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Congratulations! Boy 14 years is a long time. I have been writing for a couple of years but still have a long way to go. I do admire your blog. All of the articles you listed here are amazing but I really loved the silent film post. I never had any idea Alfred Hitchcock made silent movies, so that was eye-opening for me. I’m a huge fan of Hitchcock. Love all his films but I particularly adored “Rope”. One of the best horror movies ever made.
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