CAN THIS BLITHERING IDIOT (WHO ALSO, IF YOU’LL RECALL, RECENTLY SAID THE WORLD WAS THE LEAST VIOLENT IT’S EVER BEEN) DO ANYTHING RIGHT? Continue reading
PULP HERO G-8 AND HIS BATTLE ACES: STORIES FIFTY-FIVE TO FIFTY-SEVEN
Balladeer’s Blog resumes its examination of the neglected Pulp Hero G-8. This is a story-by- story look at the adventures of this World War One American fighter pilot who – along with his two wingmen the Battle Aces – took on various supernatural and super- scientific menaces thrown at the Allied Powers by the Central Powers of Germany, Austria- Hungary and the Ottoman Muslim Turks.
G-8 was created by Robert J Hogan in 1933 when World War One was still being called simply the World War or the Great War. Over the next eleven years Hogan wrote 110 stories featuring the adventures of G-8, the street-smart pug Nippy Weston and the brawny giant Bull Martin. The regular cast was rounded out by our hero’s archenemy Doktor Krueger, by Battle, G-8’s British manservant and by our hero’s girlfriend R-1: an American spy/ nurse whose real name, like G-8’s was never revealed.
55. THE BLACK ACES OF DOOM (April 1938) – Doktor Krueger is back! This landmark tale presented another of the supervillain team-ups that the later G-8 tales were noted for. This time around Krueger joined forces with the elusive master assassin Herr Geist (“Mr Ghost”).
In their previous encounter G-8 eliminated all of Geist’s Gray Ghosts of the Skies, his band of specialized assassins. Doktor Krueger supplies his new ally with a host of men outfitted with bizarre high-tech black body armor. These Black Aces of Doom take to the skies armed with Krueger’s futuristic weaponry and boasting exotic training in the arts of murder provided by Herr Geist himself. Continue reading
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THE MONSTER (1925): SILENT HORROR FILM
Halloween month continues at Balladeer’s Blog with this look at a neglected silent horror film.
Lon Chaney as the mad scientist Dr Ziska in The Monster.
THE MONSTER (1925) – The incomparable Lon Chaney, “the man of a thousand faces” starred as the mad scientist Dr Ziska in this horror film that is often neglected because of its annoyingly heavy use of comic relief moments. Dr Ziska is in the habit of engineering car accidents for various innocent motorists and their Model T’s. Then his lackeys abduct them and take them to the mad doctor’s sanitarium which is far removed from the nearest town or city. Continue reading
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ASK BALLADEER’S BLOG
JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW LIBERALS ARE AS FLAWED AS CONSERVATIVES.
A self-identified Liberal asked:
Q: You’re clearly not a Conservative so why do you dump on Liberals, too?
A: Because American Liberals are hilariously pretentious asses, cowardly hypocrites and pompous, insecure snobs. They also have no trace of individuality but are simply many mouths with a single mind. American Liberals have no identity outside of their political opinions and are therefore Liberals first and human beings second. 1960’s generation Liberals are the worst because the opinions that those ridiculous poseurs think are so innovative and daring are nothing more than the outdated conventional wisdom from FIVE DECADES AGO. Continue reading
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TOP 3 GAMES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEEK EIGHT
With 7 weeks already gone in this year’s college football calendar, the league is starting to shape up as strong teams rise to the top while the weaker ones fall further behind to the leading pack. And then there are the average teams that are not far from the leaders, but also not too distant from those lagging behind, giving both the leaders and those behind something to smile about. As the games in Week 8 begin, many, if not all, teams will be looking for a win, either to stay ahead of the rest or to play catch up to the leaders. For the following three matchups, however, the college bets are bound to be exponentially high because the stakes of the games are equally, making them the top three games of Week 8. Below are these top games in descending order:
GAME 1: #5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. #2 Florida State Seminoles
DATE: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014
TIME: 8:00 PM ET
VENUE: Doak Campbell Stadium (Tallahassee, Florida)
Simply put, this matchup has all the hallmarks of a game-of-the-season written all over it. Continue reading
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KITTEN NATIVIDAD, THE LIVING LEGEND, LOVES BALLADEER’S BLOG
THE ONE AND ONLY KITTEN NATIVIDAD POSSESSES BEAUTY, TALENT AND GOOD TASTE IN BLOGS.
The magnificent Kitten Natividad is a living legend and is just as irresistable as ever! The beautiful actress has appeared in countless films over the years, from Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens to Airplane and Airplane II, Beverly Hills Cop II and so many others!
In this photo the iconic sex symbol shows her good taste with a kind shoutout to Balladeer’s Blog.
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CROSS OF THE SEVEN JEWELS (1987): HORROR FILM REVIEW
Halloween month continues at Balladeer’s Blog!
CROSS OF THE SEVEN JEWELS (1987) – Where has this film been all my life? I want to have this movie’s children and I’m a guy!
Cross of the Seven Jewels is easily the worst and weirdest werewolf movie I’ve ever seen. Forget The Werewolf of Woodstock, forget Face of the Screaming Werewolf, forget Werewolf vs the Yeti and all of Paul Naschy’s other lycanthropy flicks. You can even forget the muddy-faced wolfman from Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein. Marco Antonio Andolfi starred in this film under the name Eddy Endolf plus wrote and directed it as well.
Andolfi was openly influenced by Paul Naschy’s werewolf films from Spain, but produced a cinematic mess that captured neither the eroticism of Naschy’s Waldemar Daninsky movies nor their goofy charm. Marco’s depiction of a werewolf is a bit … eccentric … and can only be described as “just a little something for the laaaadieeessss.”
Personally, I would have titled this film “Ya Call THAT a Werewolf?” but I’m kind of weird.
When Andolfi transforms into a wolfman he somehow loses his clothes (which illogically reappear on his body when he reverts back to human form) and he sprouts long bushy hair in only a few places. The first place is around his face with his mouth left bare, making him look like he’s wearing a big hair-mask with eye-holes. The second place would be his hands and the third place is his crotch, which conveniently becomes bushy enough to block out the sight of his genitals. The rest of his well-built body is butt naked. Continue reading
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL RANKINGS: BALLADEER’S BLOG’S LATEST
NJCAA – 1. EAST MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE LIONS (Defending Champions) ### 2. IOWA WESTERN COLLEGE REIVERS ### 3. TRINITY VALLEY CARDINALS ### 4. HUTCHINSON COLLEGE BLUE DRAGONS ### 5. MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST BULLDOGS ###
6. SCOTTSDALE COLLEGE FIGHTING ARTICHOKES ### 7. ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE MATADORS ### 8. SNOW COLLEGE BADGERS ### 9. ASA COLLEGE AVENGERS ### 10. CLC- BRAINERD RAIDERS ### Continue reading
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A BALLADEER’S BLOG INTERVIEW
Welcome back to Balladeer’s Blog, the only site on the web that equally criticizes both Liberals and Conservatives. Here is the transcript of my recent interview with the Democratic Party Jackass, the symbol of their organization.
Balladeer’s Blog: Right off the top, what are your thoughts on the upcoming midterms?
Democratic Party: Well, our greatest weakness is being associated with Barack Obama, who is an albatross we’ll try to increasingly separate ourselves from. I gather you noticed how some of our Congressional candidates are even refusing to say if they voted for Little Barry in 2008 and 2012.
BB: I have, but don’t worry – the networks have been avoiding covering that fact.
DP: (laughs) Yeah, thankfully the Republicans were so stupid they decided long ago not to spend the money necessary to keep up with us in the media arms race. Anything at all damaging to our candidates is always confined to the boondocks of Fox News Channel and talk radio. Continue reading
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GOTHIC HORROR: THREE MORE NEGLECTED TALES
Halloween month continues here at Balladeer’s Blog! Recently I examined three neglected Gothic horror stories. Here are three more that deserve more attention than they generally receive.
DON’T BELIEVE SOURCES THAT TRY TO PASS THIS OFF AS A TRUE STORY.
THE SQUAW HOLLOW SENSATION (1879) – Author unknown. This macabre tale from America should be as well-known as works like The House of the Seven Gables or The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Squaw Hollow Sensation deals with an Aztec mummy and was first published in serialized form in the California newspaper The Mountain Democrat in 1879.
The story was originally presented as if it actually happened but as it becomes more grisly and fantastic the reader realizes it’s fictional. When gold mining uncovers an Aztec tomb in California an obsessed scientist conducts macabre experiments to try to revive Sethos, one of the entombed mummies. Some things are better left alone, however as we learn in a tale that includes wandering Aztec ghosts, twisted experimentation on the bodies of Sethos’ fellow mummies and a catalogue of atrocities. Continue reading
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