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NCCAA WORLD SERIES DAY TWO ACTION
Yesterday was Day Two of the College World Series in Division One of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association).
The top seeded defending champions, the CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY LANCERS, are 4-0 in Series play this year after notching another pair of victories yesterday. First they smacked down the 9th seeded OKLAHOMA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY EAGLES by a score of 11-4, then won a much closer 3-1 affair against the 4 seeds, the MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY COUGARS.
OCU then bounced back with a 5-2 upset of the 8th seeded CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY YELLOW JACKETS. Cedarville had dropped a 1-0 pitcher’s duel with the 5th seeded SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE earlier in Continue reading
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BAD MOVIE: STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (1942) ON THE TEXAS 27 FILM VAULT: JULY 6TH, 1985
Starring All Kinds of People Who Died Before Your Grandparents Were Born
In the middle 1980’s/ Way down on Level 31 …
Before MST3K there was … The Texas 27 Film Vault!
Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of this neglected cult show from the mid-1980′s with the 7th review in a series where exact broadcast dates can be determined. My research through VERY old newspapers, my interviews with the show’s co-star and co-creator Randy Clower plus emails and comments from my fellow fans of the program are helping us piece together bits and pieces of the show’s history. Keep those Texas 27 Film Vault memories coming, ladies and gentlemen.
Episode originally broadcast: Saturday July 6th, 1985, from 10:30pm to 1am. Special thanks to my fellow T27FV fan Roberta for the date.
Extras: With 2 1/2 hours to work with each week Randy Clower and Richard Malmos, as machine-gun toting “Film Vault Technicians First Class”, would usually present and mock episodes of old Republic serials, then still had time to follow that up with a bad or campy movie AND their comedy sketches. Those sketches centered on their fictional Film Vault Corps, “the few, the proud, the sarcastic”, the men and women who “protected America’s schlock-culture heritage” in the form of the Golden Turkeys beloved by bad movie buffs.
Star Spangled Rhythm was so long that, with commercials plus Randy and Richard’s comedy sketches, there was no time for a serial episode before the film for this episode of The Texas 27 Film Vault.
The Movie: Star Spangled Rhythm was a Continue reading
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NCCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES DAY ONE RESULTS
Yesterday was Day One of the College World Series for Division 1 of the NCCAA (National Christian College Athletic Association). Last week was Division 2’s tournament.
The 3rd seeded ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM trailed the 10th seeded COVENANT COLLEGE SCOTS 5-1 early on but had tied the ballgame up at 5-5 by the 5th inning. The Firestorm went on to win by a final score of 8-5, bouncing back after their 9-1 loss to the (6) OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY TIGERS earlier in the day.
Olivet Nazarene themselves had gone on to lose a 3-2 heartbreaker with the 2nd seeded CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY TIGERS in the Continue reading
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CASABLANCA CAPTIONING FUN RETURNS
The fourth in this latest series of Continue reading
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BAD MOVIES: SEX SYMBOL CASEY JAMES AND A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS BOMBS IN HISTORY
Special thanks to Balladeer’s Blog’s Official Movie Hostess, the achingly beautiful Casey James! In addition to being a world-famous supermodel Casey has great taste in blogs and has agreed to help yours truly spread the word about various movies from the cinematic netherworld.
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ANCIENT GREEK COMEDY: BAPTAE (c: 415-413 BCE)
Dr Frank N Furter
For Balladeer’s Blog’s latest post on Ancient Greek Comedy I will examine another fragmentary work by Eupolis, who, along with Aristophanes and Cratinus was one of the Big Three of Attic Old Comedy.
BAPTAE was a comedy satirizing the latest faddish belief system to hit Athens: the cult of the Dorian and Thracian goddess Cotyto. Just like Kabala or transcendental meditation and other systems have enjoyed a brief vogue with entertainers and even some movers and shakers various foreign deities would periodically develop a following in ancient Athens. Eupolis was lampooning the fashionable appeal of one such cult and also ridiculed other elements of Cotyto worship as we will see.
The title Baptae came from the fact that the worshippers of Cotyto would immerse or “baptize” their garments in blue, green or purple dye, an expensive and very ostentatious indulgence for the time period. And yes, Baptae and baptizing are from the same root word, since it originally referred to immersion in any liquid, not just water.
The main element of the Athenian version of the cult of Cotyto was the fact that her devotees were exclusively male and all of them DRESSED AS THE GODDESS as part of their rites of worship. Even today we can Continue reading
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DAY TWO RESULTS FROM THE 2013 USCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
Yesterday was Day 2 for the USCAA. The 3rd seeded CLERMONT COUGARS handed Day One’s upset darlings, the (7) LU-BELLEVILLE LYNX, their first loss of this year’s College World Series. The Cougars doubled-up on the Lynx, defeating them by a final score of 6-3 yesterday.
Six runs were also scored by the 5 seeds, the PSU-GREATER ALLEGHENY NITTANY LIONS, as they survived their elimination game against the 8th seeded ST JOSEPH’S COLLEGE-BROOKLYN BEARS in a Continue reading
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MAY 6TH RESULTS FROM THE USCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
Yesterday was Day One of the College World Series in the USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association). Spalding, the 2012 champions, did not make the World Series field of 10 teams this year so there will definitely be a new title holder when all is said and done.
The top seeds, the NEWPORT NEWS APPRENTICE SCHOOL BUILDERS, had their hands full with the 9th seeded BRIARCLIFFE COLLEGE BULLDOGS. The Bulldogs are no strangers to the postseason and took the 2011 World Series championship in the USCAA. The Builders took them down in a 2-1 Instant Classic.
Earlier in the day Briarcliffe survived their opening round game with the Continue reading
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