FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE.
BRANDON TATUM, A MARTIN LUTHER KING MAN OF COURAGE, SETS STRAIGHT A WHITE BBC REPORTER OVER HIS FALSE ASSUMPTIONS – Well done, too.
AUSTRALIAN NEWS SAYS “JOE BIDEN’S STUPIDITY IS NOW A THREAT TO THE WEST.” Video.
TRUMP VINDICATED AS YET ANOTHER FALSE MEDIA STORY IS EXPOSED – And since April of 2021 several other false narratives against Trump have been exposed as lies, too.
ANTIFA HATE GROUP SETS FIRE TO PORTLAND FEDERAL BUILDING WITH EMPLOYEES INSIDE – Animals.
AMERICA’S MEDIA: EVEN LOWER THAN OUR CAREER POLITICIANS? – Yes.
CORPORATE FASCISM – A step by step look. Continue reading





GOOD EVENING, MR. TIBBS – As promised, I recently obtained a copy of author John Ball’s final story featuring his iconic African American homicide detective Virgil Tibbs. Yes, THAT Virgil Tibbs, introduced in the 1965 novel and 1966 movie In the Heat of the Night. 

HAPPY EASTER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The good response to my blog post about
CHRISTUS (1916) – Directed by Giulio Cesare Antamoro, this is a fascinating look at Jesus, from the Angel visiting Mary through his Resurrection and subsequent visit with his Apostles. Christus runs 88 minutes and features some inventive variations on Biblical tableaux. The Star of Bethlehem is depicted as a comet; when Mary finds young Jesus preaching to his teachers His shadow appears as a cross; and Judas gets three visions of the Devil – first urging him on to betray Jesus, then taunting him when he regrets that betrayal, and finally welcoming him into Hell, which opens up under Judas’ swinging corpse. 



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Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the forgotten (or at least neglected) novels and short stories which John Dudley Ball wrote about his fictional detective. I am amazed that no one adapted the other Virgil Tibbs novels in the 70s, 80s or 90s. He is up there with other American detectives like Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe, Moses Wine and more.