FOR PART ONE OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE (2016) CLICK HERE.
EVEN IN 2017 THE PUBLIC WASN’T BUYING THE “RUSSIAN COLLUSION” NONSENSE.
DE FACTO THIRD PARTY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP EVEN DEFEATED HILLARY IN OTHER STATISTICS.
MORE MOCK HEADLINES ABOUT TRUMP.
MAY 2017 MEME AND POLITICAL CARTOON ROUNDUP.
A REMINDER THAT ANY OUTSIDER TO AMERICA’S CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION WILL GET TREATED LIKE TRUMP IS GETTING. And we continue to see it here in 2023. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
It’s been nearly six years since the finale of the 18 episode run of new Twin Peaks chapters on cable. Like many other fans I’m still debating my final verdict on the series in light of the gloriously dark and nightmarish conclusion, so this particular blog post applies ONLY to the original Twin Peaks television series, the 1992 film Fire Walk With Me and its deleted scenes from The Missing Pieces.
Here at Balladeer’s Blog I’m often surprised at the way so many detractors still try to insist that the show and the movie made no sense. And bear in mind I am NOT referring to the various theories over particular symbolism or the lengthy debates to be had over the ethical and philosophical implications of the storyline.
No, I’m referring to the way some people dismiss the entire project as if it’s a bunch of weirdness with no discernible plot or storyline. There IS a (very) easily discernible plot and storyline. And I’ll say again I’m NOT talking about deeper meanings which no two people may ever agree upon, but the basic tale. Continue reading
Filed under Forgotten Television, opinion
Here is Part Eight of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the various mythological works in Ireland’s Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow. This part features multiple sections. For Part One click HERE.
THE ADVENTURE OF CONNLA THE BEAUTIFUL, SON OF CONN OF THE HUNDRED BATTLES (Echtra Condla Chaim meic Cuind Chetchathaig) – Amid the monuments and landmarks on the Hill of Uisnech in central Ireland, Connla and his father Conn, a High King of Ireland, are relaxing with several of their troops around them.
A beautiful woman in strange clothing catches Connla’s eye and he asks her where she is from. She replies she is from Mag Mell, a mystic island to the west of Ireland, where she says everyone feasts forever without effort and lives in peace.
King Conn and others nearby ask Connla who he is speaking to, because only he is able to see her. As the smitten Connla continues “chatting her up” his father and others hear the woman speaking but still cannot see her. She makes it clear that she is inviting Connla to come with her to Mag Mell forever, prompting the panicked Conn to call for his Druid Corann. Continue reading
Filed under Mythology
Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog presents another roundup of current events:
DEMOCRAT FASCISTS VANDALIZE THE HOME OF A UTAH STATE SENATOR FOR SUPPORTING LEGISLATION THEY DISAGREE WITH. More HERE. Threatening messages left scrawled on the walls, too. If the buffoons who run the Republican Party had kept up with the Democrats in the Media Arms Race this would be a nationwide story 24/7. Instead, it will soon fall down the Memory Hole. America needs a viable opposition party.
ANOTHER AMERICAN DEAD AS JOE BIDEN AGAIN LEAVES THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE BEHIND WHILE FLEEING A COUNTRY. More HERE. Joe Biden’s career of failure and scandal continues.
DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL HOLD NO DEBATES FOR THE PRIMARIES, TO PREVENT EVEN FURTHER DISASTERS REGARDING JOE BIDEN’S MENTAL UNFITNESS. They still know what they knew in 2020 – Joe Biden is unfit for office. He was hidden away as much as possible in 2020, remember?
EVEN THE DEMOCRATS AT THE AP HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BIDEN REGIME’S DEA HEAD IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CRONYISM. It’s life here in Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy.
COURAGEOUS DEMOCRAT ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TALKS SENSE ABOUT TOTALITARIAN POLITICS. More about Kennedy’s related remarks HERE. And HERE. And HERE. Will the Democrat National Committee do to him what they did to Tulsi Gabbard in 2020? He is already feeling the heat from the Democrat establishment.
BIDEN REGIME STILL USING FEDERAL AGENCIES TO WAGE WAR ON A TWITTER FILES REPORTER. REPUBLICAN PARTY SILENT, OF COURSE. More HERE.
FORMER CIA DIRECTOR ADMITS THAT “THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY” CLAIMING THE LAPTOP EXPOSING BIDEN FAMILY SCANDALS WAS “RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION” WAS INTENDED TO INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION AND INSTALL JOE BIDEN. More HERE. And HERE. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
SANTO VERSUS THE RIDERS OF TERROR (1970) – Called Santo Contra Los Jinetes del Terror in its native Mexico, this is one of my all-time favorite hidden gems among the wacked-out movies about the Mexican wrestler called El Santo.
(Many movies about Santo and other Mexican wrestlers were shown on “the Mexican MST3K” show – A Platicar a Su Casa, reviewed HERE.)
El Santo – often called “Samson” in English-dubbed versions of his flicks – has battled Martians, vampire women, vampire men, witches, mummies, wax figures come to life and dozens of other monstrosities. This particular flick stands out to me because of its joyously tasteless brand of “monsters” – a horseback riding outlaw gang of lepers.
Yes, LEPERS! In a move even Tod Slaughter might have deemed too crass and exploitative a group of bandits deformed by leprosy are at large and pulling off a series of robberies. Continue reading
Filed under Bad and weird movies
For this weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post here at Balladeer’s Blog, I will review the 1975-1979 crossover stories involving DC’s Justice League and Justice Society. For my review of their 1963-1969 crossovers click HERE.
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Vol 1 #123 (October 1975)
Title: Where On Earth Am I?
Justice Society Roster: Hourman, Dr. Mid-Nite, Wildcat, Johnny Thunder, the original Robin (now an adult) and the original Wonder Woman (Diana Prince-TREVOR)
Justice League Roster: The 2nd Flash, 2nd Batman, 2nd Green Arrow, 2nd Hawkman, 2nd Aquaman and 2nd Black Canary (daughter of the original)
Villains: The Injustice Society (Icicle, the Shade, the Gambler, the Wizard, the Sportsmaster and Huntress) plus Cary Bates
Synopsis: Continue reading
Filed under Superheroes
FOR PART ONE OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE (2016) CLICK HERE.
STEVE HARVEY PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR KEEPING HIS PROMISES TO INNER CITY AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
CAL-BERKELEY FASCISTS UPSET THAT PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED WHAT FASCISTS THEY ARE.
NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT PRAISES PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES WHICH HAVE HELPED HIS PEOPLE. Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
Here is Part Seven of Balladeer’s Blog’s look at the various mythological works in Ireland’s Lebor na hUidre, The Book of the Dun Cow. This part features three more sections. For Part One click HERE.
THE FEAST OF BRICRIU (Fled Bricrenn) – The Book of the Dun Cow version of this tale is dated to around the 700s A.D. and is considered the forerunner of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in British legends.
The frequent troublemaker of Irish myths – Bricriu – holds a feast in his new banquet hall at Dun Rudraige. He invites all the nobles of Ulster and, always a jerk, starts a conflict at the party by having three heroes argue over which of them deserves the Curadmir – the champion’s portion of the feast.
The three are the demigod Cuchulainn, Conall Cernach, and Loegaire Buadach. The competitors perform various feats and Cuchulainn is judged the winner. Conall and Loegaire refuse to accept that judgment, and the trio go to Connacht under immunity. They perform feats before Queen Maeve and King Ailill, and again Cuchulainn is decreed the victor.
Once again, Conall and Loegaire heatedly refuse to accept the outcome and so the trio travel to Munster to be judged by King Cu Roi mac Daire. He, too, names Cuchulainn the winner. The other two still refuse to acknowledge Cuchulainn as the victor and they wind up back at the Ulster stronghold of Emain Macha. Continue reading
Filed under Mythology
THE BRICK MOON (1872) – Written by Edward Everett Hale, best known for The Man without a Country. This novella started out as a serialized story published in 1869 in the October, November and December issues of Atlantic Monthly. A follow-up installment, titled Life in the Brick Moon, was published in the February 1870 issue.
In 1872, the entire four-part piece was published by Roberts Brothers as part of His Level Best and Other Stories, which contained works by multiple authors. The Brick Moon was published again in 1899 as part of Edward Everett Hale’s The Brick Moon and Other Stories.
The story begins in the 1840s when Frederic Ingham, the tale’s narrator, and his college friends Orcutt and Halliburton plan a dream project which winds up taking decades to fulfill – a manmade artificial satellite, the first recorded in science fiction stories.
The possibility of wireless communication was unknown in that time period, so the three friends don’t plan to use their Brick Moon to transmit and receive communications. They instead plan for it to serve as a heavenly object that ships at sea can use as a marker. Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Science Fiction
The latest from Joe Biden’s corporate fascist kleptocracy, brought to you by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog.
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY EXPANDS TO SIX MORE MEMBERS. More HERE.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING A CRIMINALLY COMPROMISED FIGURE LIKE JOE BIDEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE LATEST BOMBSHELL REVELATION ABOUT BIDEN’S 2020 CAMPAIGN COORDINATING WITH MEDIA OUTLETS TO COVER UP BIDEN FAMILY SCANDALS. The 2020 election was at least as corrupt as the 1876 and year 2000 elections.
SPECIAL COUNSEL REVEALS THAT BIDEN’S HHS SECRETARY VIOLATED THE HATCH ACT.
AUSTRALIAN NEWS: BIDEN AND HIS REGIME HAVE “LITERALLY BECOME A JOKE.” But people who only watch or read news outlets that pander to their own political prejudices pretend things are just fine.
BIDEN REGIME “LOSES TRACK” OF THOUSANDS OF MIGRANT CHILDREN. The regime was warned about the exploitation of child labor but didn’t care HERE. Only silence from “protesters” who pretend to care about such children. More HERE.
UNFIT JOE BIDEN NEEDING TO END HIS DAILY ACTIVITIES EARLIER AND EARLIER. His feeble mind and body were apparent even during his 2020 non-campaign despite the attempts to hide it.
FORMER NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER KELLY BLASTS CORRUPT DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG AS “A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO NEW YORK CITY CRIME” . Continue reading
Filed under LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES, Neglected History, opinion
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