Tag: ek Humor

Variations on a Theme.

Space 1999 might as well be called UFO for America.  With Barbara Bain and Martin Landau.

This weekend we’re going back Marty.  Back to Super Marionation!

OK, so I’m a huge sucker for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and cheesy not-so-low-budget Speculative Fiction.  This is episode 1 of 26 UFO episodes some of which are currently available on YouTube.

UFO Episode 1- Identified (Part 1 of 4)

Parts 2 through 4 below the fold.

Happy 4th of July, 2011.

For no particular reason, this story is set in the stone age, millions and billions and trillions of years ago, probably before some of you were even born.  Originally posted July 1, 2011.

Nosferatu.  Originally posted June 29, 2011

Out of Sequence.  Happy Columbus Day.

(1:33)

Mabel Normand– Raggedy Rose (1926) (:54)

Say anything you like, but don’t say I love to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, the prissy bitch.

Normand was one of the early female greats.  In addition to acting she wrote and directed too.  When she died at 37 in 1930 her popularity was on the decline due to her association with Fatty Arbuckle and scandals of her own related to her cocaine addiction.

Raggedy Rose was co-written by Stan Laurel.

Harold Lloyd– Grandma’s Boy (1922) (1:00)

Harold Lloyd “is best known for his ‘Glasses Character’, a resourceful, success-seeking go-getter who was perfectly in tune with 1920s era America.”  In 1919 he suffered a crippling prop accident when a bomb he thought was a smoke pot exploded in his hand as he was lighting a cigarette.  It took his forefinger and thumb which he disguised with a prosthetic glove and scarred the side of his face and chest.

Happy Birthday Bugs.  Originally posted June 20, 2011.  Braaaaains!

Taz’s first appearance.  Originally posted June 10, 2011.  Zombified, though you may not notice.

My Mama done told me…  First posted here June 09, 2011.