February 3, 2016 · 10:38 pm

PELE AND HI’IAKA: EPIC OF HAWAII PART FOUR

big-island-hawaii-map-for-tourists.gif (350×350)Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the grand and exciting Hawaiian epic about the goddesses Pele and Hi’iaka.

PART FOUR

The goddess Hi’iaka and her companions continued making their way on the Big Island in their quest to meet and escort Prince Lohiau of Kauai to the fire goddess Pele’s home on Mount Kilauea. Accompanying Hi’iaka were the fern goddess Pa’u’o’pala’e, a Pele worshiper named Wahine and Pa-Pulehu, a girl in her early teens whose wealthy family had hosted the travelers. 

The four ladies had two paths to choose from: one would lead safely around the Pana-Ewa Rainforest (named for the demonic creature who ruled it) and the other would lead directly through that rainforest. That second path would be fraught with danger every step of the way, not just from Pana-Ewa itself but also from the legions of monsters in Pana-Ewa’s service. Hi’iaka chose to go straight through the rainforest, intent on destroying many of the vile creatures who preyed on the ancient Hawaiian people.   Continue reading →

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February 3, 2016 · 10:09 pm

BRAVE MUSLIM WOMEN

THIS HAUNTING IMAGE STRIKES RIGHT TO THE CORE OF THE HATRED THAT IS ISLAM.

THIS HAUNTING IMAGE STRIKES RIGHT TO THE CORE OF THE HATRED THAT IS ISLAM.

This is in response to Monday’s ridiculous spectacle of submissive Muslim women and condescending women from non-Muslim nations dressing in the degrading body bags that the Muslim Patriarchy forces women to wear. (see below regarding Muslim Stepford Wives who pretend they wear them willingly) 

You’ll never see the preening asses of the American Left “showing solidarity” with TRULY brave Muslim women who speak out about Islam’s oppression of women. And the spineless hypocrites of the “academic” (LMFAO) world dismiss Muslim women with courage to fight back as “Western Triumphalists” who have “Internalized Western Oppression.”

Courageous Muslim women like Asra Q Nomani and Hala Arafa wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post denouncing the condescending and wrong-headed attempts of American Liberal women to defend the demeaning clothing that Muslim men force Muslim women to wear.   

They called on the Liberal women to instead join them in denouncing Islam’s sexism and its oppression of women. Don’t hold your breath, ladies. American Liberals are FAR too gutless and hypocritical to criticize Islam like they do Christianity and Judaism.

UNTIL SUCH TIME AS ALL MUSLIM WOMEN ARE FREE TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICE ON THE MATTER, IT IS IRRELEVANT HOW MANY MUSLIM “STEPFORD WIVES” COME FORWARD TO PRETEND MUSLIM WOMEN WEAR THOSE OUTFITS WILLINGLY. 

I’m not just pro-choice on abortion – I’m pro-choice on the clothing issue, too. American Liberals are too hypocritical for that. FOR THE LADIES’ OP-ED: Continue reading →

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February 3, 2016 · 1:27 am

BLACK ROSES (1988)

Black Roses 1BLACK ROSES (1988) – This legendarily laughable attempt at a horror film belongs to quite a few niche sub-genres. It’s a Canadian horror movie, it’s one of the wonderfully campy Heavy Metal Horror productions of the 1980s and most importantly for trivia lovers Black Roses is one of the Big Three Canadian turkeys to feature Frank Dietz in a supporting role. (The other two are Rock’N’Roll Nightmare and Zombie Nightmare. ) 

Dietz looked too young to be a police detective in Zombie Nightmare and he looks too OLD to be a high school student in Black Roses. But that’s part of his – and the movie’s – charm. He also plays one of the Black Roses in monster form during the film.

You want more kitsch-casting? How about Julie Adams of Creature From The Black Lagoon playing an elderly frump outraged over Heavy Metal’s supposed “Satanic” element?

How about noted musician Carmine Appice as Vinny Apache, one of the demonic members of the band Black Roses?

How about Vincent Pastore from The Sopranos as a Heavy Metal-hating parent who pays for that by getting mauled by a $1.49 spider-puppet AND getting sucked into a speaker playing Black Roses songs?  Continue reading →

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February 2, 2016 · 1:50 am

MUSLIM ATROCITY ROUNDUP

IslamBalladeer’s Blog’s readers know that I consider all religions to be nothing but irrational mythologizing. That said there is only ONE religion in the world that elected officials and the increasingly shrill media constantly try to browbeat the rest of us into regarding with a reverence it does not deserve: Islam.

It’s time for another roundup of some of the latest Muslim atrocities – and all of them perpetrated in nations often overlooked when Muslim murders are tabulated.

Please fight Islam for me

The American Left is so shallow maybe blatant, unsubtle messages like this are called for.

EL-ADDE, SOMALIA – On January 15th Al Shabaab – the Somalian franchise in the global Muslim Intolerance Machine – killed at least 63 innocent people with a suicide bombing.  

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – Also on January 15th – Muslim fascists screaming praise to Allah (their distortion of an ancient moon goddess and/or the matriarchal goddess Allilat) killed 29 innocent people and wounded 56 more in an attack on a hotel.

  • The victims of the above attack were from 18 nations and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau insulted his own country’s dead by holding a moment of silence for the attack AT A MOSQUE. The families of the dead victims were understandably upset that he did not instead hold that moment of silence at a religious location where the VICTIMS worshiped.
  • Trudeau didn’t care because for elected officials of the Western World it is ALL about placating Islam and ignoring the dead victims. If or when you and/or your loved ones fall victim to Muslim violence rest assured political figures will be rushing to Islam’s defense before their bodies grow cold.    

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February 2, 2016 · 12:37 am

IT’S JAMES JOYCE’S BIRTHDAY!

jamesjoyceHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JAMES JOYCE! His works got me hooked in my teens when I really related to his character Stephen Dedalus as he rejected his religion and indulged what I call his “young and pretentious side” in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I wore out my copy of Joyce’s novel Ulysses and continue to mark Bloom’s Day to this very day.

Over the years Finnegans Wake replaced Ulysses as my favorite Joyce novel and I’m fonder than many people are of his play Exiles, his “epiphanies” in Dubliners and, poetry geek that I am, even Pomes Penyeach and Chamber Music. So, if you live in Ireland, say hello to Anna Livia Plurabelle for me today!   Continue reading →

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February 1, 2016 · 10:08 pm

THE MOST REPULSIVE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES

Balladeer’s Blog remains the only site on the net that equally criticizes Liberals and Conservatives. Presented for your reading pleasure is a look at the most thoroughly repulsive American Liberals and American Conservatives so far in this still- young century.

The prancing buffoon named Barack Obama.

The prancing buffoon named Barack Obama.

1. MOST REPULSIVE LIBERAL – BARACK OBAMA – Could there be any doubt? This utter failure of a president violates the Constitution and persists in the cheap and worn-out game of blaming his predecessor for everything bad but trying to take credit for anything good.

And if you doubt the part about violating the Constitution just ask the Supreme Court, which TWENTY TIMES has UNANIMOUSLY ruled that Obama did so and invalidated his actions. Little Barry has earned a name as “the piece of dogshit stubbornly clinging to the bottom of history’s shoes” with his weak, inept and crooked performance as president.

In the future I’m sure America will have African American presidents who really are brilliant and capable and all of the things Obama is NOT. For right now this global embarrassment has caused so much damage that even his callous, unthinking and unfeeling worshippers are having a tougher and tougher time trying to make excuses for him. A creepy and fascistic cult of personality is Little Barry’s only strength while his tiresome way of racially profiling all white people shows what kind of a hatemonger he is.  Continue reading →

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January 31, 2016 · 8:09 pm

THE MACHINE TO KILL (1924): FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

machine to killGaston Leroux’s The Machine to Kill was written in NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR. Many book sites list it as 1935, but that was just the year it was finally translated into English. 

Personally I would use the title The Clockwork Dead Man or The Clockwork Killer because for modern readers The Machine to Kill sounds like a traditional science fiction tale about technology run amok. 

In reality this neglected Gaston Leroux novel is a horror/sci fi hybrid about an android/ cyborg mix whose mechanized body has been outfitted with the brain, eyes and nervous system of a guillotined murderer. The robotic man – called Gabriel – was created by Dr Jacques Cotentin, who needed an absolutely fresh brain, hence having to settle for a just-executed criminal. Continue reading →

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January 30, 2016 · 3:42 pm

PELE AND HI’IAKA: EPIC OF HAWAII PART THREE

HawaiianislandsBalladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the grand and exciting Hawaiian epic about the goddesses Pele and Hi’iaka.

PART THREE

The goddess Hi’ika set off for Kaua’i to retrieve and escort Pele’s chosen mate Prince Lohiau back to Pele’s home on Mount Kilauea. In some versions she is first granted some additional divine power by Pele to help her fight her way past the countless menaces that lay in her path.  Continue reading →

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January 29, 2016 · 11:32 pm

THE REVENANT (2015): MICRO-REVIEW

Man in the Wilderness

Save your time and money and see this film based on the same events.

THE REVENANT (2015) – Man vs nature movie that, ironically, is far less true-to-life than Man in the Wilderness, a 1971 film based on the same real-life events from the 1820s. ESPECIALLY THE ENDING. Yet the ’71 version didn’t go to the same bizarre levels of hype about its “authenticity” that The Revenant’s marketing does.

Richard Harris played the man left behind to die and John Huston had the role Tom Hardy plays in the newer version. Catch Man in the Wilderness from the comfort of your own home. The only entertainment in the DiCaprio film comes from wondering if he’ll ever say “Yer durn tootin'” in that ridiculous voice he uses in the movie.      Continue reading →

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January 29, 2016 · 8:46 pm

FOUR BASIC TIPS FOR MAKING A SHORT FILM

The one and only John Montana has graciously provided Balladeer’s Blog with this article regarding independent film-making.

Four Basic Tips for Making a Short Film

Making a short film, or any film for that matter can be a lot of amazing fun. But most of the time, making a movie is very stressful and filled with problems. I recently made my most recent short film called HUNGRY. I had this idea for a short that came to me a couple of years before. A wicked, humorous, little piece on the greed that is rampant at Christmas. Here are the major issues that came up and what I learned from it for my next shoot. Continue reading →

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