Another current events roundup from Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog.
UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP, ANNUAL INFLATION RATE HITS NEARLY FIVE-YEAR LOW, GROCERY PRICES HAVE BIGGEST DROP IN FIVE YEARS. Even CNN couldn’t avoid reporting it HERE.
OGLES CALLS ON CONGRESS TO GET TO WORK CODIFYING TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS INTO LAW.
ROUNDUP OF GROOMER TEACHERS. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED IN KENTUCKY FOR KIDNAPPING AND RAPING SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD. More HERE.
SIX ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA ARRESTED FOR SHOOTING A WOMAN TO DEATH IN HER CAR. And we all know Democrats won’t be showing up at her funeral like they show up at facilities to stand by violent illegal immigrants all the time.
DNI TULSI GABBARD HEROICALLY STRIKES ANOTHER BLOW AGAINST CIA CORRUPTION. But be careful, Tulsi. Remember what happened to JFK when he wanted to scatter the loathsome CIA to the winds. And see her defend privacy as essential to individual liberty HERE.
THE LATEST ON WISCONSIN’S DEMOCRAT JUDGE WHO HELPED A VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRY TO FLEE ICE.
CORRUPT AOC THREATENS A “PROBLEM” IF MORE DEMOCRATS GET ARRESTED. But gee, the Democrats were saying “No one is above the law” when they arrested Trump. What repulsive hypocrites.
THE GHOST RAILWAY BRIDGE ON THE SHAHO – Our masked hero and his crew on their Luftschiff are in the sky above the River Shaho. They observe the Russian and Japanese armies preparing for another monumental battle. NOTE: The Kapitan Mors tales are like the Sherlock Holmes stories in that they often jump around in time. This one is set during the Russo-Japanese War, so much earlier than most of the Mors stories. 
THE GREAT ADVENTURE (1963-1964) – This hour-long series presented dramatizations of well-known and obscure events from United States history. 
THE HUNLEY – In February of 1864 the Confederacy launched the experimental submarine Hunley, named after its inventor Horace Lawson Hunley. Two previous crews had drowned on test runs but on its final voyage the eight-man sub used a torpedo to sink the Union Navy’s warship the USS Housatonic. The Hunley was also destroyed by the blast and the crew killed. 
Before MST3K we had The Texas 27 Film Vault. Before Joel and Mike we had Randy and Richard. Before Pearl we had Laurie Savino. Before Devil Dogs, Observers and Deep 13 we had giant rats, Cellumites and Level 31.
Since Randy Clower still outranked his co-host Richard Malmos (until a few episodes later) in the fictional Film Vault Corps (“The few, the proud, the sarcastic”) their relationship often featured the type of abusive “Host and Second Banana” dynamic like that between Dr. Morgus and his lab assistant Chopsley or Zacherle and his wife My Dear or Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank. 
THE MOVIE: Supernatural starred Carole Lombard and Randolph Scott in a campy and hilariously bad story of possession. When serial murderess Ruth Rogen is executed her spirit winds up inhabiting the body of Lombard’s character Roma Courtney, a wealthy socialite. 
MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! This year Balladeer’s Blog looks at the musical comedy Minnie’s Boys, about Minnie Marx, the mother – and show-biz manager – of the five Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo). Actors portraying her sons co-starred and conjured up the kind of hilarious chaos you’d expect. 
Let’s face it, trying to do a straight drama about the most anarchic comedians since Edward Lear and Eugene Ionesco would have been foolish, even if their mother is the lead character, not them. The storyline in Minnie’s Boys takes Minnie and her sons from their teenage years in vaudeville to their achievement of stardom. 
FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #158 (May 1975) 
The pair fight it out, fueled largely by their former romantic rivalry for Crystal. The Thing (Ben Grimm) and his girlfriend – the blind sculptress Alicia Masters – arrive back from a night at the Metropolitan Opera and the Thing joins the Human Torch in attacking Quicksilver. Mr. Fantastic calls a halt to the fighting and asks Quicksilver why he invaded the Baxter Building. 
Some readers have been asking what I mean by my frequently used term “Psychotronic movies”. It’s a nice reminder that not everyone is as immersed as people like me are in Bad and Weird Movie Culture. 
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