(1605) Almost evening all, I’m back.
22. IYE corner
a. Grifty at 1296:3
b. “The Millennial Conundrum Of Marriage & Children
21. DAD at 1296
Another day – another ‘U’ turn.
Labour U-Turns on Local Election Cancellations after Reform Legal Challenge.
20. Steve at 1296
War Room:
Episode 5144: War Room Special: The 500 Days Of Tina Peters
19. Moo corner
18. War on X just now
17. Apart from the name confusion … Marsha-Martha
“Now here’s a fantastic hidden gem from the almighty B-movie emperor Roger Corman! Arguably even his finest directorial accomplishment of the 1950’s, unless of course you fancy laughably inept monster movies like “Attack of the Crab Monsters” or “Creature from the Haunted Sea”.
“Not of this Earth” is an exceptionally atmospheric and solidly scripted Sci-Fi tale, with remarkably strong acting performances and even a handful of visuals and sequences that are genuinely shocking considering the time it was made. The eerily charismatic Paul Birch depicts an atypical alien ambassador from the planet Davana, on an attempted mission to rescue the population that is slowing dying following the results of a devastating nuclear war.
He names himself Mr. Johnson and follows a 6-step program in order to fulfill his mission, which includes daily blood transfusions and selecting earthly specimens (like street bums and random Asian guys) to teleport across space through a closet door in his house. He hired the lovely Beverly Garland as a private nurse and also employs a lowlife thug as his servant/chauffeur. Johnson’s deadliest weapons are hidden behind a thick pair of sunglasses and near the climax he suddenly also controls some kind of flying and bloodsucking jellyfish!
Admittedly this all sounds like a bunch of campy nonsense, and it actually is, but it’s the most entertaining type of campy nonsense imaginable! Traditionally these good old-fashioned fifties Sci-Fi flicks don’t feature any (unnecessary) sequences or unnecessary sub plots, only straightforward action and relevant dialogs!
Paul Birch and Beverly Garland are terrific in the lead roles, but also the supportive cast deserves some praise. Notably Corman’s loyal buddy Dick Miller is memorable as a sly door-to-door salesman of vacuum cleaners.
Roger Corman also produced a sleazy 80’s update of his own gem in which contemporary porn star Traci Lords reprises the role of Beverly Garland. The plots are largely similar, but the 1988 version is more difficult to follow since the lead actress is parading around naked the entire time. Equally good fun, but go for the 50’s original for sheer Sci-Fi nostalgia.”
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Here’s one to keep us going
Ronald Howard and H. Marion Crawford (who apparently had a drinking problem in RL) carry this series and imho … very well too. I did have another episode, Perfect Husband but the whole notion of defenceless woman/girl at the mercy of a cad/bounder I am certainly not watching, let alone for entertainment. This is not saying females are angels themselves … well you know all this.
Note to all … this is shaping up as a frenetic Monday as usual, housework day, so it’s going to be a bit piecemeal in the afternoon in particular.
Love it, just love it.
(0937) IYE’s comment and a few others are in the sidebar. (0952)
15. Are our “guests” now declaring open season on the humans?
… plus the kids throwing rocks etc. in sympathy? What shape does societal breakdown look like?
14. DAD at 1294:1
Think I missed this one … worth a look:
“How broken is the UK Prison Service? Alex Belfield gives his opinion after nearly three years an inmate. (20 minutes)”
There’s also DAD’s set of mugshots over there … my mistake, I was referring, not to Ep perps but to Reform doing similar with Restore mugshots … that’s what that one’s about.
13. US situation but still a fair general question
12. There was footage attached
… as described below … the perp was still kicking after the three shots though.
“Man lures cops with fake 911 call, then ambushes them in Bellevue 38-year-old Mohamed Morray Bangura made a bogus 911 call reporting an argument at a transit center, then ambushed responding Bellevue police officers by pulling a kitchen knife and attacking one. Two officers arrived and contacted Bangura, who was wearing a beanie and a surgical mask pulled down. Bodycam video shows Bangura charging an officer, slashing him in the face, and st<>bbing him in the back twice. A second officer fires three rounds, striking Bangura. The officer who was injured has since been released and is recovering. He (perp?) survived, was treated at Harborview Medical Center, then booked into King County Jail on $5 million bail. He is currently awaiting a competency evaluation.”
11. Many questions still
My questions are … why did it take GB News so long and the constant question …how on earth can the MSM get away with their behaviour?
10. Moo corner
(JH: Yes, well spotted, readers.)
9. Britain today
8. Continuing Monday 2
… just a snapshot of this morning’s exchanges:
Just a few takeaways … there’s quiet Vicky again, observing all. Also … Cocksworth? As in “it’s more than my …”? How about Emma Dunwell? Am I wrong to suspect a certain poetic licence in these monikers? My “yet” was in response to Xeno’s: “Off to the #Office today, amazingly, it’s not raining!”
7. In one of those word salad speeches
AOC: “My favorite part is when they said that the Spanish language came from Spain. I believe that the Mexicans would like to have a word.”
(Palm across eyes)
That Rupert speech again, via Steve
Also from Andrew Bridgen, whence Steve found the items:
Noel Coward also warned, in 1952.. “There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner”…
… and with “What’s Going to Happen to the Tots” (1955)…
JH: I’m thinking Chuckles would have enjoyed that.
(0503) Morning all … still dark out there. (0615)
5. They never, ever stop their horrors
4. Those awful ads intruding at random
I replied: “Absolutely. I can just about stand the TUA travel ditty … at the other end is anything with the wrong demographic for the scene.”
3. Steve at 1295
2. An amateur news service?
If you gradually slide into such a role on a blog, it requires certain things which “just an outlet for a blogger’s opinions” do not fully cover. Mind you, the reader has his own way of finding diverse opinions or even bias confirmation … it can be called blogrounds, often first thing in the morning.
Which is fine for many readers, including the rounds of the MSM. Something which a blogger with aspirations to cover far and wide from an antiWoke slant … what he discovers … is that regulars start feeding in reports, and like Kate at Small Dead Animals (blogrolls, fifth column there), it’s mainly men who overtly take over that role.
The female likes to find a warm, comfortable nest though from where to do her fearless Amelia warrior stuff and X is one such nest … there are females everywhere in that colony, from the outspoken (useful and useless) … to the more reticent, the “reposter”, in this case below … “Missy”:
If you were once, say in your day job, a junior headmaster, then a prep school head, you are going to be in contact with the female almost constantly, inc. at home and you quickly find the most astute ones, the ones who notice fine detail, plus the children who also notice things, a bit like the Baker Street irregulars.
So I was evaluating Missy … a bit over a thousand followers, similar number that she follows … and that in itself says something … lack of narcissism for a start, not one of those females out to attract simps and those who think with their tadgers … seems Brit oriented, ultra reticent to show herself, likes to observe … and among those are some of the most useful bellwethers from long experience.
One I always look out for as a reposter is Vicky, one of the original, fearless Kippers, plus Inese, delicate and dainty, I bet with rooms full of accumulated elegant items … she’s a fellow pureblood. Most men pass by in pursuit of, for example, the artful haggis up hill, down glen, hot in pursuit with the hounds.
Here’s one of the morsels Missy captured:
“Hillary is leaving out one very important detail… Clinton: 2 million with no protests. Obama: 5 million with no protests. Trump: 600K with PROTESTS and RIOTS. This is all manufactured by the Democrats to stop Trump. They are causing the violence.”
Morsels all over the place.
1. DAD (4:45 a.m.) at 1295
a) The administrative court of Nîmes ordered the mayor of Robion, a town in the Vaucluse department, at the beginning of the month to remove a wooden cross located on the town’s outskirts. The mayor has announced he will appeal the decision….
b) What do you think of this email to nietspE?
“Hi Jeffrey, it’s Anna, Caroline’s daughter and Jack Lang’s granddaughter.
I’ve been working at a summer camp for a month now, but I’m really struggling there, and so are two of my friends. They’re being really mean to us. So I was wondering if we could stay with you in New York from Friday the 7th to Sunday the 9th….
c) The bureaucracy in France is mad, stupid, wearisome.
Having lived in Haute-Savoie since the age of three, 23-year-old Archie Morrissey’s dream of joining the prestigious Marseille naval fire brigade has been abruptly halted.
Born in London but raised in the Giffre Valley, the young man was denied French citizenship, a prerequisite for applying….
d) The Eps**n Files and the 100 Most Powerful Figures.
JH: As someone pointed out yesterday, such a list, with no context, with perps mixed in with those only discussed from a distance, is next to useless, as Pammy well knows.