Thur Mat too

 

Now you do know that I’m blaming you lot for my being late back to the site … been reading all the offerings today, warnings and pointers, saw there was but an hour and a bit before the late afternoon recommencement … not long enough for a film length episode, besides, one is a puzzle.

The one which puzzles me has a year of release of 2013, yet the production quality is 30s today … near unwatchable, also because it has Zoe Wanamaker in it … I was not the only commenter to note that her Ariadne Oliver is offputting.

Thursday [11 to 15]

(1156) Afternoon all. (1210)

 

15. Bobbie corner


14. ArchWokeship


13. Moo corner


12. Humans make good compost in their eyes


11. IYE corner

a. Catfish:

« person who sets up or runs a false puppet social networking identity profile for fraudulent or deceptive purposes. »
« Operation Arctic Frost. Kash Patel vs Joe Kent and the ´fibbies’.

https://helenaglass.net/2026/03/25/operation-arctic-frost-kash-patel-vs-joe-kent-and-the-fbi/

b. 1333:

»After the Epstein Files, It’s Become All But Impossible To Believe He Killed Himself

it’s time to talk about the ultimate Epstein conspiracy theory »

https://tomselliott.substack.com/p/after-the-epstein-files-its-become

Thur Mat one

 

We’re only as good as our last post or in this case, our last film. AKH was quite right in his comment under the last film:

“An enjoyable film even though the picture and sound quality weren’t great…”

Issue is that though largely enjoyable for a few reasons, the 30s films do have those vision and sound issues. Now, as far as YT and film and record companies are concerned, that’s fine … give the plebs dross … nay, turn it into dross afap … unless said plebs are ready to part with copious moolah. Also, the moment someone cleans up the copy, colourises, whatever, suddenly YT or uploader claps restrictions on … either chopping the film into bits, each crammed with ads or some other moneymaking way.

Now, I do ustd intellectual property rights but I also ustd out-and-out greed … and this is compounded by lying in the thumbnail, for example, using AI commentary and so on. Besides, the number of 30s films of good B quality … weeeelllll, we’ve run out, to be frank.

So it’s back to the old Simon Templar, Perry Mason and the like. I quite liked this one below … being decades later, the vision and sound is naturally a bit better.

The thing I don’t like about the 70s is that the violence became quite a bit more graphic, in slow motion … Peckinpah etc. and that does nothing for me, personally, there’s no entertainment in that unless you’re a sicko already in the head.

Eventually, they even got to soaps and so Coronation Street had its gruesomeness and sicko sexuality … it got to Doctor Who, it tainted everything … and today, it’s just bile and dross, with the wimmin slappers or superhuman or both. No thanks.

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0726)(0914)

 

10. Seems to be a US 60 minutes type thing


9. Moo corner


8. Men’s endometriosis


7. Remember my mentioning JFK Jr posting on X

… which is a neat trick, seeing as he’s been dead since 1999. Conclusion is that it’s someone else posting … duh.

The questions are … firstly, how high grade is the intel … and secondly, what therefore are his bona fides? All right, same “man” below, different topic … what thinkest thou?


Issue is, of course, who would have access to that data on soc-sec numbers? And is this “guy” having a laugh at the expense of us “conspiracy theorists”, with a view to exploding our supoosed mystique?

Second issue is … er … what if it’s true?

6. Torquaymada and Toodles

  • Torquaymada at 1333:6 … latest from The Restorationist….
  • Toodles at 1334:1 … with Grifty, Ginge and Whinge….

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0552) Morning all. A bit of sun around our way. For now. (0717)

 

5. Andy has items 1, 10 and 11 over at NOWP 1333

… plus under “Maybe campaign …” and “Why don’t people…” at OoL.

The NOWP pieces have a certain tone to them which is perfectly understandable as Them have designed it that way. It’s the tone of those who have been awakened to harsh truths … no fun for humankind at this time. It surrounds all of us at this time in the “unherdables sphere” so to speak.

There is a similar tone at 1334, via Toodles.

There are a few answers to it. One is Svali’s from 2000 … these people make mistakes. True, then there is revolution itself, a la Corbyn, which is the outcome designed by Them, the one they plan upon happening, with the new “leaders” in the wings to step up on the soapbox and lead us out of our woes. All ringleaders of factions then rounded up and disappeared.

There is popular movement across an entire nation, which is Restore here, still Donny and ICE over there. That has possibilities but first the baddies need blocking themselves. Possibilities by accident and many throwing in their lot with us.

There is another factor which very, very few believe in. John 3:16. I took it up in my long book at the end, when the angel answered the question by saying you can only be rescued if you believe you can be. That is the crux of the whole matter, esp. at this time of year coming up Sunday. See, anyone can say the words, wear the robes, sip the wine, chant the gobbledegook but it comes to nothing unless you feel that what you do and think is efficacious, that it can work. That’s often near insurmountable.

I saw yesterday that Bonnie Blue had been baptised into some denomination. A stunt? For real? God knows, I certainly don’t.

There are all sorts of straws to grasp at as well … socio-economic models, wise philosophers such as Aristotle or Spinoza, all sorts of cults where the cult trappings are the most important to the devotees. There is Elon’s money which Donny has apparently declined with thanks. All those things are dust in the wind.

In WW2, everyone was exhorted to stay calm, carry on. Maybe the phlegmatic English can do that better than, say, Indians or excitable Africans, who knows? It’s vastly better if you have faith that something is in hand. END/.

4. Steve at 1333

  • TSA Chief Details Horrors of Democrats’ Punishment of TSA Officers
  • 8th Circuit Joins 5th Circuit, Overturns Activist Judge
  • Denmark PM Frederiksen Resigns After Poor Showing in Election
  • Clearing The Path: Russia Targets Ukraine’s War Machine At Its Core
  • Iran Tested The A-10 Warthog Then Immediately Regretted It
  • Mark Zuckerberg Is Building An AI Version Of A CEO To Help Him Run Meta
  • Global energy crisis triggered by Iran war surpasses 1970s oil shocks
  • Much more.

3. Our fate in a Venn diagram


2. DAD at 1333

a) France: New far-left mayor wants to disarm police, tells those ‘not aligned with our political project’ to leave….

b) French Authorities raid Rothschild Bank in Epstein investigation. Authorities confirmed searches were carried out across multiple locations….

c) More than 500 protests have been policed by Scotland’s single force since the start of the year, it was revealed yesterday….

d) They weren’t expecting this…… (YouTube).

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/due-diligence.html

Wednesday [11 till close of play]

(1714) Evening greetings, y’all, happy suppering.

 

19. Moo corner


18. Accepting what your brain knows is wrong


17. The CO2 scam


16. Monsters


15. Her suggestion


14. How to destroy the west


13. Moo corner


12. Toodles and the demolishing of hospitals

Over at 1333.

11. IYE triple-oh

… over at 1333, an auspicious number.

Really don’t mind if you sit this one out

 

As a young person, we all heard Thick as a Brick, smiled at the joke about 8 year old co-writer Gerald Bostock losing his award because he got 14yr old GF Julia up the duff … it was in the news of that day … but the album itself? Two suites, one either side, with bridge?

Yep, clever, ok, they could certainly play, hardly bopping music. 2026 … listen again? Bits, not all the way through … Barriemore Barlow’s drum solo in part two. Robert Plant did not like that they were almost orchestral, no room for improvisation. Plus Tull had an award as best metal band. Tull? Metal? Even rock?

But it wasn’t until late March of 2026 that I watched these two ladies:

|https://youtu.be/_N6IDqm4dSs?si=pol9rY84I62WneFc

|https://youtu.be/_v7NYJd38oU?si=bU-pBgiNE9L3C-rS

… and finally got the backstory, plus about changing time signatures, the whole parody of prog thing. Before Floyd. Two ladies who know music. And now I know why I was not completely into it back then.

Long story short … someone told Ian Anderson that Aqualung was the first prog album. Rubbish … it’s separate songs. You want a prog album, just wait for our next one … a parody of prog.

Trouble is, everyone saw the virtuosity, that these boys could actually play … and it became a prog classic. Oh well, said Tull … let’s be prog for awhile.

The underlying humour is … nice. Here’s the album:

Wed Mat

Film situation … I do go through each film and a few reviews … none of the 30s shorts are left, either for vision, sound or plot reasons. There are about five feature films, a couple of long TV episodes as well. Can’t see myself doing more 30s than that for now, let’s see what YT do.

This was quite a good one:

“This movie is a B-detective series film. This means that as a “B” movie, it was the second and usually lesser film on a double-feature bill. This didn’t mean that B meant it was a bad film, but it was certainly given a smaller budget and had lesser pretensions and expectations from the studio. Many B-films were detective series films and they provided great but also relatively predictable entertainment (much like a movie version of a TV show like MURDER SHE WROTE or even LAW AND ORDER). Common to all these films were goofy or evil supporting characters, a very fast pace, a relatively short length (55-70 minutes) and a certain familiarity with the main characters. Some notable examples are the Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Falcon or Saint series films.

The Lone Wolf is in many ways particularly like The Saint or Falcon films because the lead (Warren William) plays a reformed thief and gentleman who is smooth with the ladies. While he’s very easy to like and is obviously a force for good, the police never seem to understand he’s helping them. AND, because of this, the cops are pretty dumb! This is the trademark of all these films.

In this case, William is very ably assisted by Eric Blore (who is hilarious as his butler in this third Lone Wolf film). Unlike the last of the Warren William Lone Wolf films (The Lone Wolf Strikes), this one has a very good plot and actually has some entertaining twists and turns. Plus, like the first of the series (The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt), the supporting actors in general are excellent. A very good example of the series.”