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[PLACE OBLIGATORY CHANGING THINGS UP COMMENT HERE] 12 Mar 2013 | 06:33 am
Okay, I know I've done this before and I also know I've said this before, but this time - unlike all the other times, this is different. As many of you are familiar with me and my flighty blogging wa...
Another Reason For Hating The Seventies.... 11 Mar 2013 | 04:53 am
You thought disco was enough, didn't you? You didn't think there would be ANYTHING conceivably worse about a decade, did you? If so, then you were wrong. WRONG, I TELL YOU. I grew up during this d...
Unsolicited Blogger Portraits: The Christopher 10 Mar 2013 | 03:22 am
Time yet again for me to open myself up for another possible volley of critical lambasting, stoning and thrashings out behind the barn for this, my latest Unsolicited Blogger Portrait. For those of y...
Legacy Of Blood (1971) 9 Mar 2013 | 11:23 pm
Say that you're pretty fair, but not great, at understanding French; and now you're tasked with translating a French book all into English. The chances are good you'll end up writing a phrase like "P...
Odd Internet Ads A Go-Go: Hold Some Kruggerands For Me! 8 Mar 2013 | 07:50 am
People take for granted that just going online to your typical websites and blogs and so forth are your basic repositories for some of these stupid ads that I find and (semi-) regularly post in this p...
Hardly Working (1981) 7 Mar 2013 | 09:34 am
There's a problem with trying to watch any latter-day Jerry Lewis movie as compared to the ones made in his heyday when partnered with Dean Martin or his early solo efforts. The Jerry that you saw wa...
Happy George Miller's Birthday! 4 Mar 2013 | 01:54 am
...and no, I don't mean the director of The Neverending Story: Part II. I mean the COOL George Miller. Queensland's son. The man who gave Mel Gibson to the world in a nice, explosive package of car...
The Atomic Brain (1963) 4 Mar 2013 | 01:06 am
Have you ever seen a movie that wants to be a horror flick but, as it unfolds, you can tell deep in your heart that there is no way it can ever overcome its shortcomings in look, in story and especial...
A New Router And Other First World Blogging Problems... 3 Mar 2013 | 05:50 am
As many of my astute readers may have realized, I hadn't been posting at my regular blinding pace, commenting on all the current states of affairs, made incredibly inept social commentaries and so for...
Ancient Evil: Scream Of The Mummy (1999) 2 Mar 2013 | 10:26 am
Show of hands; how many of you ever heard of David DeCoteau? Anyone? In the back, there? At all? Quick history lesson: having started at the feet of such masters as Roger Corman and Charles Band, ...