SCROOGE & MARLEY (2012) – MERRY CHRISTMAS! Balladeer’s Blog’s Christmas Carol-A-Thon for 2016 comes to a close with a look at this gay-oriented adaptation of the Dickens classic. It’s also a musical, but unfortunately the songs struck me as being as blah as most of Leslie Bricusse’s output in Scrooge (1970).
Previously I’ve examined Ebbie, which is a business-woman themed version of the story, John Grin’s Christmas and Christmas is Comin’ Uptown, which are black-themed versions of the story and even See Hear Presents A Christmas Carol, a sign-language and spoken version aimed at the hearing impaired.
Scrooge & Marley is an openly and deliberately gay adaptation of the Dickens story. It often falls into the trap of using its gay narrative as a gimmick rather than a theme but that risk just goes with the territory when a creative team is locked into following a previously mapped-out storyline.
The film is set in the fairly present day and opens up at Ebenezer Scrooge’s gay nightclub called Screws. I was hoping it would be called Screwed, to be reminiscent of the porno version of A Christmas Carol titled Ebenezer Screwed. At any rate Scrooge is, as usual, a tight-fisted (as it were) hand at the grindstone and treats his employees horribly. Hell, he even fires them if they tip delivery people out of their own pockets! Continue reading
Jingle Bombs was the real title of this holiday tale which pitted superhero Luke Cage aka Hero for Hire aka Power Man against the one-off supervillain called Marley. Like a Guest Villain from the Adam West Batman show Marley uses a campy Christmas Carol motif for his nefarious plan … yet, oddly the story is kind of quaint. 
“By all rights, I should be a member in good standing of their tribe, ‘liking’ their Facebook posts and joining their candlelight vigils against the evil Trump Administration. But November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I am just so tired of these people. I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids turning into them.
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HILARIOUS! An Elector from Hawaii changed his vote from Hillary, making a total of FIVE faithless Electors for that career criminal! Rubbing salt in the wound is the fact that this meant HILLARY LOST THE MOST ELECTORS IN ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR YEARS! And in 1912 it was a VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate who lost them, not the Presidential candidate! 
Balladeer’s Blog presents another figure pointing out what pompous and close-minded asses that American Liberals have become. I throw these in sometimes as a nod to the fact that more and more people have noticed this regression. 
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) Division Two – 1. INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST GRENADIERS ### 2. CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY GOLDEN EAGLES ### 3. WARNER UNIVERSITY ROYALS ### 4. INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY WILDCATS (Defending Champions) ### 5. UNION (KY) BULLDOGS ### 
6. NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY BEACONS ### 7. INDIANA UNIVERSITY EAST RED WOLVES ### 8. BETHEL (IN) PILOTS (Riverboat Pilots) ### 9. SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY BOBCATS ### 10. COLLEGE OF IDAHO COYOTES ### 
