Independent Voter Site Balladeer’s Blog does another current events roundup.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES THAT AMERICAN HOSTAGE EDAN ALEXANDER, TAKEN BY HAMAS IN OCTOBER OF 2023, HAS BEEN RELEASED AND IS ON HIS WAY HOME. He was the last American hostage in Hamas hands.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES FIGHTING PRICE-JACKING BY BIG PHARMA. More HERE. Another reminder that Trump is the best president for the working class and the poor of our lifetime. Legislation would have been better, but Congress is too deeply in Big Pharma’s pocket.
DEMOCRAT ELECTED OFFICIALS FACING ARREST OVER ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICERS AT RIOT IN SUPPORT OF VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.
TRUMP GETS NEW TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA. Biden’s deals only ever benefited China and the Biden Crime Family but Trump’s benefits the nation.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REVEALS THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF “JOBS” ANNOUNCED BY BIDEN WERE FAKE. The Biden Regime was like one big RICO operation.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA “TEACHER OF THE YEAR” SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. One victim was only eleven years old. Democrats, can you please leave children alone?
DEMOCRATS CALLED OUT FOR GOING FROM “MEN CAN HAVE BABIES” TO “WE LIKE THE TERRORISTS.” Continue reading
Before MST3K we had The Texas 27 Film Vault. Before Joel and Mike we had Randy and Richard. Before Pearl we had Laurie Savino. Before Devil Dogs, Observers and Deep 13 we had giant rats, Cellumites and Level 31.
Since Randy Clower still outranked his co-host Richard Malmos (until a few episodes later) in the fictional Film Vault Corps (“The few, the proud, the sarcastic”) their relationship often featured the type of abusive “Host and Second Banana” dynamic like that between Dr. Morgus and his lab assistant Chopsley or Zacherle and his wife My Dear or Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank. 
THE MOVIE: Supernatural starred Carole Lombard and Randolph Scott in a campy and hilariously bad story of possession. When serial murderess Ruth Rogen is executed her spirit winds up inhabiting the body of Lombard’s character Roma Courtney, a wealthy socialite. 
MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! This year Balladeer’s Blog looks at the musical comedy Minnie’s Boys, about Minnie Marx, the mother – and show-biz manager – of the five Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo and Gummo). Actors portraying her sons co-starred and conjured up the kind of hilarious chaos you’d expect. 
Let’s face it, trying to do a straight drama about the most anarchic comedians since Edward Lear and Eugene Ionesco would have been foolish, even if their mother is the lead character, not them. The storyline in Minnie’s Boys takes Minnie and her sons from their teenage years in vaudeville to their achievement of stardom. 
FANTASTIC FOUR Vol 1 #158 (May 1975) 
The pair fight it out, fueled largely by their former romantic rivalry for Crystal. The Thing (Ben Grimm) and his girlfriend – the blind sculptress Alicia Masters – arrive back from a night at the Metropolitan Opera and the Thing joins the Human Torch in attacking Quicksilver. Mr. Fantastic calls a halt to the fighting and asks Quicksilver why he invaded the Baxter Building. 
Some readers have been asking what I mean by my frequently used term “Psychotronic movies”. It’s a nice reminder that not everyone is as immersed as people like me are in Bad and Weird Movie Culture. 
A TRIP TO THE MOON BY MR. MURTAGH MCDERMOT, CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE BY HIM (1728) – The real author of this is unknown, since it was published using the pen name Murtagh McDermot. Unless, of course, the writer used their real name for the main character. 
IT’S A BIRD … IT’S A PLANE … IT’S SUPERMAN! (1975) – It’s the bomb that asks the musical question “How many Lembecks can you handle?” Even the most die-hard Superman fans would have a hard time forcing themselves to watch all of this made for tv movie version of the 1966 stage musical. 
Despite music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and script by David Newman & Robert Benton this Superman musical was Broadway’s biggest flop in history as of the 1960s. It’s no great shakes in its televised form, either. 
For some prep as I at last get back into reviewing the surviving fragments of ancient Greek comedy every now and then, here’s my 2011 review of Demoi by Eupolis. Along with Aristophanes and Cratinus, Eupolis was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy. Background info is 
