tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85954849891946158552024-03-12T19:23:18.888-05:00The New Adventures of Desdinova the Super Villain of the OzarksA kinder, gentler version of the old blog. This will take a fun look at pop culture, because nothing upsets Ozarkers more than fun and pop culture. Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.comBlogger856125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-77464833466556792782020-06-13T07:22:00.002-05:002020-06-13T07:26:13.521-05:00ANTIFA RATS<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4QVNX2bA1WA/XuTDDrKubUI/AAAAAAAA29Y/gdTzfg3NtRQ_Bltovs-pYUV69B68VoomACK4BGAsYHg/s633/antifa%2Bblow%2Bup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="633" height="286" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4QVNX2bA1WA/XuTDDrKubUI/AAAAAAAA29Y/gdTzfg3NtRQ_Bltovs-pYUV69B68VoomACK4BGAsYHg/w400-h286/antifa%2Bblow%2Bup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-3176210588969624302020-04-24T03:36:00.000-05:002020-04-24T03:36:25.770-05:00LISTENING TO THE WHO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-62912194973032200482020-01-11T02:47:00.000-06:002020-01-11T03:07:34.449-06:00PSYCHEDELIC GIF OF MY PROFILE PICTURE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I will soon be celebrating 13 years as a blogger. A few years ago, I joined Tumblr and began making sarcastic captions to photos. About a year ago, Tumblr installed some sort of robo net nanny, algorithm thing to flag "offensive" & "inappropriate" post. It flagged some really innocent stuff on everyone's Tumblrs. Many good Tumblr bloggers quit, partly because there was nothing done to combat rampant alt right activity (racism, antisemitism, homophobia), but a girl in shorts or, in my case, a photo of a person's finger in the center of a bagel (the algorithm thought it was a "close up of sexual intercourse") could get you "flagged" as "inappropriate."<br />
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Needless to say, Tumblr decided to punish me & branded me "NSFW". When you are branded "NSFW" on Tumblr, the confesscate you avatar-profile pic, replacing it with some little, silly, orange shape. I sometime post my famous avatar-profile pic in my Tumblr feed just to remind folks of what Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozarks looks like. Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!<br />
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Also the algorithm didn't stop the number of "porn bots" that follow you. It is hard to determine who is a real follower and who is a porn bot for a dating or sex site.<br />
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That being said, I was followed recently by a pop culture Tumblr called Camp Kitchy Kitchy Koo, which post some very creative GIF files. They must like my Tumblr, because they made a psychedelic GIF of my famous avatar-profile picture. I posted it above. Thank you, Camp Kitchy Kitchy Koo! This had been a rough week, with three illnesses, expensive car trouble, & extra bills, but you made me smile!<br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-82518032969457304312020-01-02T23:11:00.000-06:002020-01-04T01:31:08.779-06:00MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Many people make New Year's Resolutions. I usually don't, because I know I won't keep them. However, I'm going to make a few to see if I can keep them.<br />
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1. People complain that I drink too much soda. I usually drink about ten to fifteen 16 oz. bottles of Diet Pepsi a day. I feel I can do better than that. I'm going to bump it up to five to ten 2 littler bottles a day.<br />
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2. Consider using a new conversation starter when I meet women. Something like, "Nice weather we are having" rather than "Could you bend over so I can smell your butt?" That line isn't working.<br />
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3. Renew my membership in the Illuminati.<br />
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4. Dedicate more of my time and my talent to helping the Deep State take over America.<br />
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5. Make more memes using that crying woman/cat with the plate of broccoli template.<br />
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6. Report recipes for Asian cuisine that feature the words "better than take-out" or ramen recipes that say "throw out the seasoning packet" to the Pinterest administrators as being "racist."<br />
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7. Teach my 3 year old nephew how to "cuss like a sailor."<br />
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8. Meet a woman who just wants me for my body.<br />
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9. Buy more crap at estate sales.<br />
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10. Eat more fast food.<br />
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11. Finish, at least, one of my novels. Until then I will keep posting excerpts on Facebook to annoy former co-workers, who said they didn't want to read it.<br />
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Most of all, I hope you and your love ones have a wonderful and safe 2020.<br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-66076376303988847292019-12-22T08:14:00.000-06:002019-12-22T08:14:48.529-06:00STOP WHINING ABOUT MARIAH CAREY'S "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS' HITTING NUMBER 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mariah Carey's seasonal favorite, "All I Want For Christmas", final hit Number One on the Billboard charts. It is the longest a song has taken to hit Number One in Billboard history. It was first released on her 1994 Christmas CD. Why it has now made it to Number One came about because of several factors. It is played heavily by radio stations when they go to "all Christmas" this time of year. When it was released in the mid-90s, Christmas music was considered "un-cool" by radio. That changed about 2001 or so. Another factor that lead to the song hitting Number One is the tracking of downloads and song streaming. Last year at this time, Dean Martin version of "Baby It's Cold Outside" was Number One on downloads.<br />
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However, there is a group of old, white men on social media, who believe Mariah's Phil Spector-ish Christmas tune hitting Number One is a sign of the end of the world. This group of racist, woman haters are up in arms about this landmark moment in pop music history. They are constantly attacking the song as being "awful" and "unlistenable." They then make the claim that the reason it became a hit is because "most current music is awful." OK Boomers, whatever.<br />
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These same men (Yes, it is ALL men complaining about this - when they are not complaining about Greta Thunberg being <i>Time</i>'s Person of the Year) were cheering last year when Dean Martin was Number One on the downloads chart with "Baby It's Cold Outside." Why can't they be happy about this too? They also are attacking Ariana Grande over using the tune of "My Favorite Things" for her recent hit.<br />
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Why don't they direct their hatred toward the people responsible for that "Christmas Shoes" song? They deserve to be waterboarded.<br />
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Of course, opinions, like this one, is why I'm considered the Super-Villain of the Ozarks!!! Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! </div>
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I was hoping to do more than this for Countdown To Halloween, but time and other things got away from me. Here are some different things I found on Tumblr. Many of the came from the Vintage Halloween Tumblr & the Rainy Day Recess Tumblr. Click on them to enlarge.<br />
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Here are the covers of some horror comics I have. I have more somewhere. If I find them before tomorrow, I will post them. Click on them to enlarge.<br />
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Dear Radio Station Program Directors: This month is October. We, the radio listening public (and people who work in radio), want to hear songs by these artist this month:<br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-74639766645879601742019-10-07T22:54:00.000-05:002019-10-07T22:54:14.395-05:00BERT & ERNIE'S JACK O LANTERNS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-49903527339933480182019-10-06T02:56:00.000-05:002019-10-06T02:56:16.395-05:00GENE & GILDA'S JACK O LANTERN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a photo of the late Gene Wilder & the late Gilda Radner's Jack O Lantern from Halloween 1986. Adorable! From the Tumblr of The Loving Dread. </div>
Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-67584546813205730272019-10-01T20:35:00.000-05:002019-10-01T20:35:14.719-05:00LET THE COUNTDOWN TO HALLOWEEN BEGIN!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And here is a vintage October calendar I re-purposed for 2019. </div>
Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-5583561593837741292019-09-29T08:15:00.000-05:002019-09-29T08:15:51.342-05:00I FOUND GARAGE BAND HITS FROM 1966 IN A RECENT HORROR FILM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In trying to get some authenticity for my novel I've been writing, which takes place in the Spring of 1966, I've been looking at old radio hit survey's on line to find what was being played on Top 40 at that time. Top 40 radio figures into the story, because the main character lands his first job at the only Top 40 radio station in the small college town, that is the setting for the story. Also the fact that Top 40 radio was inexpensive entertainment, as well as being about all there was at the time.<br />
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Garage bands were popular at the time, as suburban kids decided to try to emulate The Beatles & the Rolling Stones, after playing folk music. Trying to find some of these bands the pop up on these surveys on I-Tunes or Amazon can be impossible. Same with some soul artist on independent record labels.<br />
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So I was surprised, when I looked up a band I found on a radio survey from Lansing, Michigan. The band was called The Plagues. The song I was looking for turned up on a garage band compilation, but I noticed a band called The Plagues came up on the soundtracks to some recent horror films ( <i>Parasomnia </i>& <i>Fear Dot Com</i>)came up. I figured this was a Pantera/GWAR sounding death metal bands on these soundtracks, but I previewed the songs anyway. It was 1966 garage band music on these soundtracks, which was a pleasant surprise. This would require some Googling to find out how songs by an obscure 60s garage band turned up in a recent horror film.<br />
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The answer turns out to be pretty simple. The director of<i> Parasomnia </i>& <i>Fear Dot Com</i> is William Malone. When he was in high school in Lansing, Michigan, he was the lead singer of a garage band called (You guest it) The Plagues. I checked You Tube, to see if there was an interview with him, talking about The Plagues. I didn't find any interviews where he mentioned that, but did find that I knew who William Malone was before this. One of the videos that turned up was part of a documentary I used to have on VHS about Famous Monsters magazine. Malone was in that video, showing off a large collection of memorabilia that included Robby the Robot and the Robin costume from the Batman TV series. Amazing how all of this is connected.<br />
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So I will be downloading these songs. I'm also interested in watching William Malone's movies. </div>
Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-25981416750440498112019-09-18T21:54:00.001-05:002019-12-14T14:24:04.146-06:00IN THE STORY SONG REALM: Original Fantasy Fiction by Jeff Boggs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>NOTE: This is an original story by my twin brother about my namesake & a few other characters you may recognize. ENJOY!</i><br />
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<b>IN THE STORY SONG REALM by Jeff Boggs</b><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Where am I? Where is my baby? Is he okay?” the young woman screamed and began crying after she gained consciousness. She noticed everyone was staring at her with worried looks. In front of her was a nurse, in a traditional white nurses uniform with a royal blue, half cape with red trim.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What is wrong with her, Carrie?” ask a teenage girl, dressed in a long dress, from a bygone era.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'm not sure, Suzy,” the nurse answered the girl. “She just appeared out of nowhere. I wonder if she is one of us.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The young woman looked around the room at the menagerie crowded around gawking at her. Sitting on the couch next to her was an adorable little blue-eyed girl, in a fancy dress and bow in her blonde hair. Beside the little girl was a waif of a boy. His left eye was blackened and bruised, his lip was swollen, and he had cigarette burns on his malnourished arms.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There was a tall, strapping man in coveralls and a hard hat with a lantern mounted on it. His face was smeared with coal dust and he held a pick ax in his large hands. She assumed he was a coal miner.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An old African-American man in farm clothes with a mule was standing by the coal miner. At a small table, sat an elderly lady, whose face was caked with make up, wearing a slinky, satin dress, that showed more of her senior citizen body than a person needed to see, and in her white hair were the same faded, purple feathers that were in the boa around her neck. She was drinking a martini and smoking, like a factory, at a table with an old man in a fedora and brown suit, who looked like had been doing prison time.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>On a park bench across the room, sat a disheveled, homeless man with a long, dirty beard, a nose running green stuff and a tubercular cough starring at her with bad intent. Next to him, sat a middle-aged woman in mismatched outfit with a dead rose pined to her coat, clutching a large suitcase. A young man in a Yankee uniform from the Civil War standing at attention. A large, armored android was in a chair in a corner, like a kindergartner being punished for acting up.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Carrie, when you finish giving aid to that hysterical woman, we need to go over these maps that you brought to the Four Winds Bar,” spoke an icy, Satanic voice, like a cross between Vincent Price and Barnabas Collins, with a dash of Roddy McDowell. The young woman became frightened at the strange figure, who had spoken. He wore a long, black cape adorned with pentagrams and half moons. His face was covered with a strange black and white mask. “I'm anxious to take over the world.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Hold on, Desdinova! This may take awhile!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Yer shtoopid, Desdinova,” snarled a guy sitting a on wet tarp, wearing a t-shirt with a Confederate flag on it, reading 'If you can wear your X, I'm gonna wear mine'. He had a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a red, plastic cup, full of tobacco spit, in the other. He also had tobacco spit on his shirt and running from his mouth. “Ya ain't never gonna rule the world. Folks ain't gonna vote fur ya.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Any more of your bubbles and squeaks, Earl, and I will render you mute!” the strange figure snapped.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Could you two stop bickering for a few moments?” said a young man in a denim jacket with his hair in a pompadour and scars on his face, like he had being fighting most of his life.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Where's my baby? Where is little Billy?” the young woman screamed and cried.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A short, pudgy, middle-aged man walked over to where her. “Yes, what can I do for you?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The young mother looked bewildered. “Who are you?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Everyone calls me Little Billy,” the chubby fellow explained in a soft British accent. “I run a special foster home. I'm raising the children of all my friends, who died of lung cancer from smoking cigarettes. I don't mind.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Union soldier ran over, “My name is Billy! Do you need me to do something like deliver a message to another brigade?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A teenage boy sauntered over. “My name is Billy too,” he announced in a thick Mississippi accent.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You don't understand!” the young mother screamed. “Billy is my baby! He was in the backseat, when my car skidded off the highway on the ice! He may still be in the car...out in the cold!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I would be happy to go search for your baby in the cold and snow!” the Union soldier said. “I want to be a hero, even if it means being a fool with my life.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Little Billy whispered to Miss Carrie, the nurse, “Do you think she has passed away?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I don't think so. She may be here temporary, like an out of body experience,” Miss Carrie nurse replied. “But you might have the life transition councilors come over an talk to her.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As Little Billy walked away, Earl lit up a cigarette. “Hey Fatso, look what I'm doing.” He then blew cloud of second-hand smoke in Little Billy's direction. “Ima smokin and ya ain't gonna stop me.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You are a pathetic monster, Earl,” Little Billy denounced Earl in his soft British voice.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The tough, young man in denim shot Earl an angry look. “Why don't you leave folks alone, Earl? Maybe people would start liking you. Little Billy may be a big man on the outside, be he is an even bigger man on the inside.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I ain't listening to you. You got a girly name,” Earl sneered, the let out a Goofy-like chuckle. “Huh Huh Huh.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You bring that up again and I'll bust your head like an Arkansas watermelon,” the young man warned Earl.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Would you like a drink of water or coffee?” Miss Carrie nurse asked the young mother.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Water would be fine,” the young mother replied. “But I need to find my baby Billy to see if he is alright!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'll go get the waitress from the Ya'll Come Back Saloon,” said the miner.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Thanks John,” Miss Carrie nurse admonished the giant of a man as he walked toward a bar area. A creepy character wearing a straight-jacket came over to Miss Carrie's friend, Suzy, which caused Suzy to be startled.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Is your name Suzy?” the mental patient asked with a deranged twinkle in his eye and almost perverted smile on his face.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Yes, why do you ask?' Suzy answered with a quiver in her voice.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I just think it is a coincidence that I took a girl name Suzy to the junior prom,” the mental patient told the frightened girl. “Then I raped her and killed her and build a little cage with her bones. They said I was an excitable boy.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You need to go back to your room and leave us alone! Can't you talk to your roommate?” Carrie scolded the mental patient, as she tried to lead him away from Suzy, who was shaking with fear.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“He's no fun. All he wants to do is dance with that headless mannequin that he calls Glendora,” the mental patient huffed. "Besides there are werewolves hanging around my room."<br />
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"Are you afraid they will attack you?" Miss Carrie nurse asked.<br />
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"No, I just don't like them, because their hair is better looking than mine," the mental patient explained. "They just drink pina coladas and eat chow main." <br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Miss Carrie Nurse, I'll walk him back to his room. You care for that young lady, that was in the car wreck,” the tough, young man said as he grabbed the 'excitable boy' by the collar of his straight-jacket to escort him back to his room.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Why don't ya tell him what yer name is!” Earl shouted in a mocking tone before spitting tobacco into the red Solo cup in his hand.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You know, I think I will,” the tough boy answered Earl. He then began to explain to the mental patient, as he dragged him back to his room, “You talk about a coincidence, guess what my name is?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>An attractive young woman in hot pants and a cropped t-shirt, carrying a tray walked up. Around her neck was an expensive looking braided, silver chain with a locket attached at the end.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Hello, I'm Brandy, I'll be your waitress. Our featured drink is the Funky Cold Medina. We also have a special on strawberry wine in long tall glasses, filled up to there. They are free, if you can dance like Fred Astaire.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I need to find my baby and my car!” the young mother screamed frantically. Brandy looked at Miss Carrie Nurse and Suzy with concern.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Bring us two bottles of water,” Carrie Nurse told Brandy. “We think she needs to re-hydrate.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brandy began walking away, when the old lady in the slinky dress and feather boa waved her over to the table she was sharing with the aging gangster.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Brandy, could you bring me and Uncle Sonny another martini. We're celebrating his release from prison. He can give you that twenty dollar bill, in his hat band, as a tip.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'm saving that for cab fare,” Uncle Sonny explained to Brandy. “I'm planing on going to Central Park later on.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Then put the martinis on my tab and bring each of us two more,” the old lady instructed Brandy, who put the empty glasses, from the table, on her tray.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Lola, you are drinking yourself half blind!” Brandy scolded the elderly lady.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I might as well,” Lola confessed in her booze soaked voice. “The man I loved is dead, the place I loved to work is a disco and nobody wants to see a ninety year old woman dance. What kind of music is in the bar tonight?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It's the guitar jam with Clayton Delaney and Johnny B. Goode. Tomorrow night, there is a retro/paisley underground band from the 80s, with a girl lead singer,” Brandy explained.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Is she the one that wears electric boots and a mohair suit?” Lola asked, as she lit another cigarette.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“No, this girl has hair like Jean Shrimpton did in 1965,” Brandy said. “You're thinking of that girl named Bennie. She fronts a glam band called the Jets” Brandy walked into the bar and came back with the bottled water for the young mother.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Is the bar going to have that kid from Georgia that plays the violin again?” Desdinova asked Brandy as she walked past him.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I don't think so,” Brandy answered.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Good! I detest little snot! He beat a friend of mine out of his priced golden violin in a so-called fiddle contest, and then, to add insult to injury, called my friend's mother the 'b-word.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I relay your complaint to Joe the manager,” Brandy affirmed. “He would understand since he is a musician. He plays a mean piano.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I know him,” Desdinova smiled. “He has a black mustache and wears a red bandanna and purple sash. I believe he used to run a honky-tonk down in Mexico.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Yes he did," Brandy explained. "He also had a cantina in El Paso, but there was a guy got shot there.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Tragic. So many tragic things have happened to people here. Let me add, that I would love to marry you. You're a fine girl and would make a good wife,” Desdinova took Brandy's hand and kissed it. She blushed and a tear came to her eye.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“She wouldn't wanna marry you, Desdinova! You call yerself an Alka-Seltzer,” Earl blurted out and chased with a loud belch.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'm an alchemist, not an Alka-Seltzer, you idiotic redneck!” Desdinova screamed back.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Two young women walked over to Carrie Nurse and Suzy. One was dressed like a housewife of the late Sixties and the other was dressed like a housewife of the early 70s.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Little Billy said you may need a Passage of Life councilor for a woman, who had been in an auto accident,” the Sixties housewife said with a pleasant voice.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We don't know all of her situation yet. She says she lost control of her car on the ice and snow. She may just be in a momentary state of limbo. She is worried about her infant son, who was in the back seat asleep. You might try to be careful what you say to her.” Carrie Nurse explained to the two ladies. They both agreed to be delicate as possible. They walked over to the couch, where the young mother was sitting.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Could you children move so we can talk to this lady?” the Sixties housewife asked the little blonde girl.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I don't want to go sit on that park bench,” the little blonde girl explained. “That old guy that has snot running out his nose and makes a sound like a deep sea diver, when he breathes. He also ask to see my panties.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“And that lady with the suitcase is crazy,” the little boy piped up. “She says thinks a man is coming to take her to a mansion in the sky. You know, she is forty-one and her daddy still calls her baby.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You could sit in the floor, if you like,” the Sixties housewife said. “But we need to talk to this lady.” The children agreed to sit in the floor.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“What are your names?” the Seventies housewife asked the children.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The little blonde girl smiled and announced, “My name is Jennifer.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“That is pretty dress and bow in your hair,” the Sixties housewife gushed. “Did your grandma buy that for you?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“No, my pet rabbit bought it for me, when he went to town in an old streetcar, with a turtle and kangaroo and a bunch of monkey from the city zoo,” the little girl explained.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The little boy reluctantly told they Passage of Life councilors in a soft voice, “My name is Luka and I live upstairs on the second floor. You've probably seen me before. I guess I'm clumsy. I walked into the door again. It's none of your business anyway.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jennifer got a smile on her face and told Luka, “Hey, we could go look at that android that was used to fight wars in time and space!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I don't know if would be safe for you children to bother the Iron Man,” the Seventies housewife warned the children.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“He's harmless, he just stares at the wall.” Jennifer said before they scampered away.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brandy came back with the two bottles of water for the young mother, after dropping off the martinis for the elderly twosome. “Here you go! This is from the well of Desert Pete.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The young mother took the bottles of water and thanked Brandy, then said, “Can I ask you a question? Who is the old lady you drinking all those martinis?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“That's Lola, she was a showgirl at the Copacabana,” answered Brandy. “She kind of lost her mind after her boyfriend was killed many years ago. She is like me, she loves a man, who is no longer around.” Brandy then walked back to the Ya'll Come Back Saloon.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Sixties housewife took the young mother's hand, “Hi, my name is Honey and I'm a Passage of Life councilor here in the story song realm. Just so you know, I'm training this new girl to help me.” The Seventies housewife gave the young mother a sympathetic grin. “I had to fire my last assistant councilor, because she kept calling people 'country bumpkin.' We think you're here because you may have passed away. Now, there is nothing to be ashamed about being deceased. Many of us here are dead. There is a girl here, who lived on Yellow Mountain, that died in a blizzard looking for her lost pony named Wildfire, and another girl, who walks through the moors, calling for a boy named Johnny to remember her. There is also a girl, who was run over by a train, while trying to retrieve her boyfriend's class ring from their car that was stalled on the railroad tracks. In the late 50s, several teenagers came here after they passed away. There is a young race car driver, name Tommy, that keeps wanting people to tell a girl name Laura that he loves her.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> “And that leader of a motorcycle gang, called the Pack, that got hit by a truck.” the Seventies housewife added. “Don't forget those one hundred Chicago policemen that died in that gun battle, on the old East Side, with Al Capone's men.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Sixties housewife nodded in agreement, “That man with the mule, Old Rivers, died after years of plowing fields and planting crops, and Big John died when a mine caved in on him.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Oh yeah, Earl's wife and her best friend poisoned him and threw his body in a lake,” the Seventies housewife added. “But he had it coming and you know, nobody missed him at all.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I can understand that,” the young mother asked. “What about that Desdinova character?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“No, he is immortal. They say he started World War One,” the Sixties housewife clarified. “We're are both dead. I should ask at this point, do you have a husband?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I did, but we are going through an ugly divorce,” the young mother began to explain. “I found out he cheating on me with a red headed woman name Jolene. I went and begged her not to take him away from me. It didn't work, so while they were at a bar, one night, I broke out the headlights on his pickup truck, with a baseball bat, and scratched the doors with my car keys.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We have some very understanding judges here in the Story Song Realm,” the Seventies housewife assured her. She then pointed to an attractive young woman. “See that girl there...she killed the Fortune Telling Queen of New Orleans and her boyfriend, when she caught them together. The judge let her off, because of her rough childhood. You see, she was born in the wagon of a traveling show and her mother had to dance for the money men would throw.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It is probably good that we don't have a husband to deal with,” Honey told the young mother. “My doctor called one morning and told me I had a brain tumor, but I chose not to tell my husband. There was nothing he could do, so why cause him to worry. He would come home from work early and I would be crying about it, but I still kept it a secret. I just died one day while he was at work. He took it kind of hard, but...”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Seventies housewife interrupted Honey, “I know I shouldn't say anything since I'm being trained, but I feel you should have told him you were going to die. My husband was with me when the doctor gave me the test results. I leaned my husband, Rocky, for strength. I told him, 'I've never had to die before, I don't know if I can do it.' Even though I’m gone, I still give him little pep talks in my own sweet voice.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The two councilors began bickering about how they handled their demise, when Desdinova walked over to the young mother with a large mirror and held it up to her.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You cast a reflection, as does Carrie Nurse and Suzy Dear,” he explained before turning the mirror to others in the room. Those ladies don't. That kid from Mississippi doesn't, so he is obviously dead. Old Rivers and Big John don't. Brandy, Lola and Uncle Sonny do have a reflection.” He then looked around. “Where are those two children?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brandy spoke up, as she dropped off another round of drinks for Lola and Uncle Sonny, “Jennifer and Luka are playing with Annie, that little orphan girl, who froze to death while making artificial flowers.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Desdinova spun back around to where the young mother was, with his cape swirling around him, “Those two children would have a reflection, but the other child wouldn't.” He turned the mirror again. “Our tough, young friend and Little Billy cast reflections, but Earl doesn't...which we can all be glad of. My point is, the people who do not cast reflections are deceased. The ones with a reflection are still living and you, my dear, are still living. I believe we should get you back to your car and your child, if we can find where you went off the road.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We were on our way to my parents house in Cincinnati,” the young mother explained. “A blizzard came up and it was hard to see. I lost control of the car on the ice. I'm not really sure where I was at, because I couldn't see.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“If that car is in a ditch,” Old Rivers said. “I'm sure my mule could pull it out.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I can give it a mighty shove,” Big John added. “Pushing a car out of a ditch or snowbank would be no problem.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Wait a minute,” the tough, young man spoke up. “Don't we know an astronaut that is stranded out in space? If we could contact him, maybe he could see it from space and tell us where it is.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'll bet that little, crippled, boy with all that radio equipment could contact him,” Old Rivers said. Big John, Billy the Union soldier and the tough boy went and carried the boy and his equipment out of his room, to where everyone was. The tough guy plugged in the radio equipment and the little boy turned on the mike.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Ground control to Major Tom. Ground control to Major Tom. Major Tom, are you there? Please talk to little Teddy Bear,” the boy spoke into the microphone on the old Motorola radio set.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“This is Major Tom to ground control,” came a voice through the static on the radio's speaker.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“We need your help finding a car that ran off the road, in a snow storm, on the way to Cincinnati,” the little boy asked. “There is a baby inside named Billy.” The radio crackle with white noise.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“This is Major Tom and I'm stepping through door,” the voice said. “I see a Ford Fiesta in a snowbank along State Highway 27. On closer examination there is a baby in a car seat, sleeping soundly in the back. Not sure if his name is Billy or not. Tell my wife I love her very much...I think she knows.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The static became louder and the voice fell silent. “Ground control to Major Tom, something is wrong! Can you hear me Major Tom? If you can hear me, say something to little Teddy Bear,” the boy cried as he frantically operated the squelch knob on the radio set.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I know where Highway 27 in Ohio is! I'll lead the way! I can be a hero!” Bill the Union soldier exclaimed.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I can ride Midnight out there,” Rivers said. “How about you Big John?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I'll meet you guys outside,” Big John explained. “I'm going to the barn to saddle up that horse that doesn't have a name.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Desdinova walked over to Rivers with small, mahogany box with strange carvings on the side. “Rivers, take these with you, they might come in handy. These are galvanic keys made of copper, zinc and other metals. They may help you start the car, if the battery is dead. Just attach these to the terminals and then start the motor. The silver ones can open the doors, if they are locked. No incantations needed.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You know something, Mr. Desdinova, you're are a right decent fellow, for a crazy, alchemist, who wants to rule the world,” Rivers admonished. “I'll bring these back to you. I hate when someone borrows a man's tools and doesn't give them back.” Old Rivers climbed up on Midnight and rode out the door.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Nice of you to loan those tools out like that, Desdinova,” said the young fighter. “I hope they don't loose them out in the snow.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Don't worry, young man. Those are simple tools that anyone can make. They are insignificant to my grand plans,” Desdinova explained. “What I would love to have are the four wands, created by the American alchemist, Osiris Bulicroix, known as the Mad Cajun of South. He is said to have created a set of four wands that could control the weather, control minds and turn dirt into gold.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The teenage boy, with the Southern accent, sauntered over to where Desdinova, “Mr. Desdinova, sir, my name is Billy Joe MacAllister. Did I hear you call the name Osiris Bulicroix? He was my mama's great uncle!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Really? Do you know what happened to his earthly possessions after he died?” Desdinova asked with intense interest.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“They are all still in his old house place, up on Choctaw Ridge,” Billy Joe explained to the interested, megalomaniac alchemist. “Me and this girl, that I've been friends with all my life, Roberta Streeter, we used to play in the old house when we was kids. There were just all sorts of neat stuff in his house. All kinds of candles, leather bound books, swords, axes, skulls, and down in the root cellar was a laboratory filled with bottle of weird chemicals and potions.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Desdinova produced a leather bound book, flipped to an illustration of the wands and showed Billy Joe, “I'll show you what I would like from his collection. These things. Do you know if they are still there?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Billy Joe looked at the picture in the book with sheepish expression and said with slight embarrassment, “Oh, them things. Last time me and my friend, Roberta was at Uncle Osiris' house, we kind of threw them away.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“In the trash?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“No, we threw them off the Tallahatchie Bridge,” Billy Joe confessed. “They did make a big splash when they hit the water, though.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“You know, that water in the Tallahatchie River is awful muddy,” the young fighter spoke up. “I'll bet those wands are still under the water. Desdinova, with all your magic, you could probably find a way to get them out of the river.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“It says in the book that they will glow in the dark beneath a full moon!” Desdinova exclaimed with delight. “I could probably retrieve them from the murky depths of that Southern tributary and with them, I, Desdinova, would rule the world.” He then laughed a loud maniacal laughter.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I want to warn you,” Billy Joe cautioned. “Not only is that water muddy, but it is rather cold. I know, because a week after me and Roberta threw those things off the bridge, I was walking home from Choctaw Ridge and there was this woman in a long, black dress, walking toward me from the other end. She looked young and pretty, until she got up to me and, then she aged, right before my eyes to about a hundred years old and turned a gray corpse color. She must have been a haint of some sort. Then, she shoved me off the bridge and I drowned.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Somebody told me you jumped off the bridge?,” the young, tough, fighter asked.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Why would I do something stupid like that?”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I think I will go to Mississippi and get Bulicroix's wands out of the Tallahatchie River!” Desdinova exclaimed.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“I hope you drowned in that thar river or some good ole boys hang ya and then throw yer body in the river,” Earl smarted off.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Earl, you can't kill me,” Desdinova laughed. “I'm immortal, unlike you.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“He's right, Earl!” the young, tough, fighter chided the redneck. “You can't talk. Your wife, and her best friend, fed you poisoned black-eyed peas.”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Oh yeah,” Earl snapped. “At least I ain't got a woman's name.” He then stood up and hollered to everyone in ear shot and pointed to the tough guy. “Hey yall, this ole boy here is named Sue! Ya here me, his name is Sue! That's a gal's name!”<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“That does it! You asked for it!” and with that Sue knocked Earl to the ground, with the whiskey bottle and tobacco spit cup spilling everywhere. <br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Old Rivers rode back into the room on his mule, holding Desdinova's box, with some snow in his white hair and on his shoulders. Big John was right behind him.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Old Rivers and me got your car out of the ditch and started it, Miss," Big John said.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Your baby is fine," Old Rivers reassured her. "Sleeping like a log."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"That Yankee soldier, Billy, said he wanted to standing guard until you got back to your car," Big John chuckled. "He wants to be a hero, whether or no."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Somebody call the lady a cab, so she can get back to her baby and get back on the road," Old Rivers said. "There is two taxis here, which one is available?"<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"I'll get the Nashville cab that the boyfriend of that country singer Kay drives," answered Sue. "I don't trust that taxi driver from San Francisco. He likes to get stoned and pretend he is flying in his taxi."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Carrie Nurse and Suzy helped the young mother up from the sofa and began walking her to the door. "Good luck, you shouldn't have any more bad weather on your way to Cincinnati."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"How do you know?" the young mother asked.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"I read it on the map I found, behind the clock, at the Four Winds Bar," Carrie Nurse explained.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Remember, I will need that map in my quest to take over the world," Desdinova reminded Carrie Nurse.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Ya cain't take over the world with no maps and wands, like some sorta fairy," Earl started shooting his mouth off again. "Ya need guns and pickup trucks if ya wanna take over the guberment."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Everyone present unanimously yell, "SHUT UP, EARL!"<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Suzy handed her an envelope with a Christmas card inside and Carrie Nurse slipped in a small stack of one hundred dollar bills before closing it. "We signed a Christmas card for you and are giving you some money," Suzy told the young mother.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"You didn't need to take up a collection for me," the young mother said.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"We didn't," Carrie Nurse explained. "It is a gift from the newlyweds from Saginaw, Michigan. He became rich when he sold his father-in-law a worthless gold claim in the Klondike."<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"Thank you. I appreciate your help. Goodbye." the young mother said, as the large room and everyone seemed to dissolve into the darkness. She heard the windshield wipers whipping back and forth on the windshield. The heater was blowing full blast. She looked in the back seat and Billy was sound asleep. She was in the car again or maybe she had never left. It must have been a dream, she thought. It had to be a dream, because it was too crazy to have really happened. That was a strange gathering of people that would never be together in the same place.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>She pulled her car back onto State Highway 27 and had an uneventful drive the rest of the way to her parent's house. She heard Billy shake his rattle, gurgling and babbling, so he was awake. When she parked her car in her parent's driveway, she looked down and saw on the seat beside her a Christmas card in an envelope. Before she went to bed, she opened the envelope and pulled out the card. Not only was there a card, but there was one thousand dollars in hundred dollar bills in the envelope too. She opened the card and it was signed by almost everyone she had met, except for the Iron Man and Earl.<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE RESIDENTS OF THE STORY SONG REALM! Miss Carrie Nurse, Suzy Dear, Desdinova the Eternal Light, the Boy Named Sue, Big Bad John, Old Rivers, Honey & Mrs. Jay "Rocky" Stevens the Passage of Life Counselors, Brandy, Lola the Showgirl, Uncle Sonny, the Excitable Boy (BTW you have great bone structure), Jennifer and her brown and white rabbit, Luka, Delta Dawn, Aqualung, Little Billy of the Home for the Orphans of the Victims of Lung Cancer, Billy the Yankee, Billie Joe MacAllister, Teddy Bear and Kay's boyfriend the taxi driver." <br />
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<i>BTW: Jeff would like to thank the following recording artist: Carrie Underwood, Blue Oyster Cult, Tom Paxton, Susan Vega, Jimmy Dean, Walter Brennan, Barry Manilow, Tony Carey, Jethro Tull, Tanya Tucker, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Black Sabbath, The Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash, The Who, Bobby Gentry, Oak Ridge Boys, Warren Zevon, Perry Como, The Looking Glass, Tone Loc, Deanna Carter, Leo Sayer, Tom T. Hall, Chuck Berry, The Smithereens, Elton John, Charlie Daniels, The Coasters. Marty Robbins, Bobby Goldsboro, Austin Roberts (and Woody P. Snow), Kingston Trio, Cal Smith, Michael Martin Murphy, John Leighton, Mark Dinning, Ray Peterson, The Shangri-Las, Paper Lace, Dolly Parton, Cher, Bobby Darin, David Bowie, Red Sovine, John Wesley Ryles & Harry Chapin. They made this story possible.</i><br />
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This retro blog is eight years old. The original Desdinova - Super Villain of the Ozarks blog began during the infamous ice storm of 2007 and soon was upsetting Ozarkers with satire and opinions that were frowned upon. After it caused some problems with my career (to the point that I left my job for a brief time), I decided to try a retro blog, because I was fond of what the those blogs were posting. As time has went on, I seem to be one of the few of that group still going (the exception is Plaid Stallions, which seems to be consistantly posting new stuff). My post have become few and far between, because I'm currently working on two novels and I busy with my real job.<br />
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Hopefully, I can continue with this blog, since it has proven to be more successful (numbers, readers and hits wise) than the original blog. Thank you for reading!</div>
Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-50067121429372578932019-04-04T22:23:00.000-05:002019-04-04T22:23:11.681-05:00THE CONFUSSING HISTORY OF CAPTAIN MARVEL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since 1940, the name Captain Marvel has been apart of American pop culture. Everyone knew Captain Marvel was a superhero and most people had a vague idea about what the character looked like. They were pretty sure he was a guy in a red or red-ish suit. This year saw two movies released that have people scratching their heads.<br />
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"Hey, that's not Captain Marvel! That is a woman! Captain Marvel was a guy!"<br />
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And then another person might say, "Hey, I thought that character was Captain Marvel and Shazam was just the magic word he used to change into a superhero!"<br />
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The truth is there have been three different Captain Marvel's since 1940 and the two main Captain Marvel's have been revamped in recent years. Let's take a quick history of the various captains.<br />
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The first Captain Marvel appeared in <i>Whiz Comics</i> #2 in 1940. He was first seen on the cover throwing a car, filled with criminals, into a brick wall (this will be important later). Inside it told the story of an orphan newsboy named Billy Batson, who is lead into a dark railroad tunnel by a creepy stranger, who puts him on a psychedelic painted train. It takes him to see an old wizard named Shazam. The wizard says if Billy repeats his name he will be given great powers. Billy says Shazam and a lightning bolt strikes him, changing him into Captain Marvel, a superhero in a red suit with gold trim and a lightning bolt on his chest. Captain Marvel battled a bald, mad scientist named Dr. Sivana, while fighting off the advances of his sexy, blonde daughter Beautia.<br />
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Besides the emphasis on magic in Captain Marvel's world, as opposed to the science fiction of Superman's world, one difference, in the early days, was the artwork. It the early days, the face of characters seemed very sketchy and undefined. The faces in Captain Marvel were not just detailed, but recognizable. Dr. Sivana was based on Count Orlock from the silent film Nosferatu. Beautia was based on actress and singer Alice Faye. Captain Marvel was based on actor and future <i>My Three Sons</i> star Fred MacMurray (above). Even later, a villain named Black Adam was based on Bela Lugosi and the comic sidekick Uncle Dudley Marvel was based on W. C. Fields.<br />
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At one point in the early 40s, Captain Marvel was more popular than Superman, even beating him to the movie screen in 1941. Republic Pictures produced a movie serial, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mweCJeBk314" target="_blank"><i>The Adventures of Captain Marvel</i></a>. This established the practice of having different actors play Billy and Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel was played by Tom Tyler (above) and Frank Coghlan Jr. played Billy. The flying special effect was created using a dummy on a thin wire. Surprisingly, it still looks realistic after all these years. Of the negative aspects of the movie serial, Captain Marvel doesn't talk and he frequently kills the villains.<br />
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So DC Comics sued Fawcett, the company that published Captain Marvel. D. C. lost the first case on a technicality, but appealed. They pointed out that Captain Marvel had a cape and tights, like Superman, and was throwing a car on the cover of his first comic book, like Superman did on <i>Action Comics #1</i>. Fawcett settled out of court and stopped publishing comic books of any kind. Eventually, D. C. acquired the rights to the Fawcett characters.<br />
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In 1966 (there's that year again), a small company called M. F. Enterprises launched a <i>Captain Marvel</i> comic book. Their Captain Marvel was an android from outer space, who could split his body into separate parts by yelling "SPLIT!". Had a sidekick name Billy Baxton. His arch-enemies were named Plastic Man, Dr. Fate and the Bat. Anyone see a problem with all this? This Captain Marvel not only received a cease & desist by Marvel, who was getting ready to launch their Captain Marvel and now had a copyright on the name, but they also got a threat of a lawsuit from D. C., because the villain, the Bat, looked like Batman. Many historians have claimed the M. F. Enterprises <i>Captain Marvel</i> is the <i>Plan 9 From Outer Space/My Mother the Car</i> of comic books.<br />
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In 1967, Marvel launched a Captain Marvel character in an anthology entitled <i>Marvel Super-Heroes</i>, which reprinted earlier stories to promote the popular animated TV series by the same name. Marvel wanted to copyright and trademark the name Captain Marvel. The character changed over time, including wearing a green and white uniform with a helmet in early stories.<br />
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This hero was a spy for the Kree empire. He assumed the identity of a dying scientist name Walter Lawson. He soon finds that he likes Earthlings, but things are complicated, because Lawson was being investigated for criminal activity by a military security officer named Carol Danvers (she will be important later). The Krees try to use a bomb to destroy the military base, but Mar-vell manages to save Danvers. His Kree superiors try to have him executed for treason, but he escapes, only to be trapped in the Negative Zone.<br />
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At this point, Marvel decided to try to revamp the character, buy giving him a red, yellow and blue suit and, in another nod to the original Captain Marvel, Mar-vell would be summoned to Earth from Negative Zone, by Captain America & the Hulk's teen sidekick, Rick Jones, when he strikes a pair of wrist bands together. He would trade place with Rick, who would go to the Negative Zone, while Captain Mar-vell did his thing. Confused? I am, which is probably why I was not a fan of Captain Mar-vell. The Marvel Bullpen kept changing the character and tinkering with him. He was never very popular, but they kept publishing the comics to keep a copyright lock on the name Captain Marvel.<br />
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Then in 1973, D. C decided to re-launch the Fawcett Captain Marvel, who was riding a crest of nostalgia in the early 70s. While he disappeared from publication, elements of the Fawcett Captain Marvel were kept in the public conscious by two entertainment personalities from the South: Elvis Presley and Jim Nabors. Both were fans of Captain Marvel as children. Elvis, used a lightning bolt as a monogram on stationary and other business supplies. He had jumpsuits made that were similar to the Captain Marvel & Captain Marvel Junior costumes. Beginning in his teenage years, Elvis began trying to wear his hair based on Captain Marvel Junior's famous waterfall pompadour (above).<br />
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Nabors brought back, what D. C. would later call "The one magic word," while working on <i>The Andy Griffith Show</i>. He said, in an interview on KTXR's <i>Nostalgia Time</i>, felt that his character, Gomer Pyle, said the interjection "GGOOOLLLYY!" too much, so he ad libed, during the filming of one episode and chose "SSSHHAAA-ZAM!!", as a substitute. It got a big laugh from his co-stars, so the writer's decided to us "Shazam" as an alternate expression of amazement for Gomer. While we are on the subject of Mayberry, I should mention that the first actor to play Dr. Sivana on-screen was Howard Morris (above), who played crazy hillbilly Ernest T. Bass. This was in the <i>Legends of the Superheroes</i> TV special of the late 70s.<br />
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Because Marvel had a copyright on comic book called <i>Captain Marvel</i>, D. C. had to use <i>Shazam!</i> for the title of the comic book staring the Fawcett superhero. Since Marvel was borrowing from the original Captain Marvel story for their new Captain Mar-vell, D. C swiped an idea from Marvel's revival of another Golden Age Superhero (and Republic serial star) Captain America. In the early <i>Shazam</i> comics, Captain Marvel and the other Fawcett heroes lived on a planet called Earth-S and had been in suspended animation for over twenty years, thanks to Dr. Sivana. Like Captain America & his alter ego, Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel & his alter ego, Billy Batson, had to try to adapt to modern times. Unlike Captain America's stories, Captain Marvel's stories didn't deal with political or social change, but continued the magical, fairy tale, fantasy world from the original comics which featured talking animals and dinosaurs that looked more like they belonged on <i>The Flintstones</i> than <i>Jurassic Park</i>.<br />
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D.C. promoted the character with a Mego action figure, several of the giant sized Collector's Edition comics, which reprinted class Fawcett era stories (including Whiz Comics #2 and that infamous cover), and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgXeXTuKGhM" target="_blank">a live action Saturday morning TV series</a>, than ran from 1974 - 1977, produced by Filmation.<br />
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The TV series didn't feature the villains or other character, just Billy and Captain Marvel. The stories tended to be across between <i>Afterschool Specials</i> and <i>Lassie</i>, with a kid doing something they shouldn't (play with matches in a drought ridden forest, walking on a rock cliff) and needing to be rescued by Captain Marvel. In the 80s, Filmation produced an animated <i>Shazam</i> cartoon, using the same theme music, but faithful to the comic books and including many of the characters.<br />
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Now, are you still wondering about the female Captain Marvel from the recent film? Well, in 1977, Marvel launched <i>Ms. Marvel</i>, in which it is revealed that bomb caused Carol Danvers to have the same powers as Captain Mar-vell. Marvel decided that instead of calling her Marvel Girl, they chose to give a nod to the women's lib movement and call her Ms. Marvel. However, many feminist complained that, in later issues, <i>Ms. Marvel</i> wore the skimpiest costume of any female superhero. The character was more popular than the Captain Mar-vell character, so Marvel gave him cancer and killed him off in the early 80s. In 2012, Marvel decided that Carol Danvers should assume the name Captain Marvel and she was given a full body jumpsuit, that she wears in the movie. The original story about Mar-vell posing as a scientist is combined with the Ms. Marvel character for the movie, only the scientist is a woman named Wendy Lawson.<br />
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Meanwhile, at D.C, they decided to destroy all of their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DC_Multiverse_worlds" target="_blank">Multiverses</a> with <i>Crisis On Infinite Earths</i>. This killed off many of D.C's superheroes and merged all the various planets (Earths 1 & 2, Earth- S) into one world. So the Fawcett characters now existed in the same world as the Justice League. They also decided that Captain Marvel would hence forth be known as Shazam and he would have Billy Batson's boyish personality and mentality, but still look like a grown man. In some <i>Justice League</i> stories, Shazam has a puppy love crush on Wonder Woman, who is conflicted because he is a grown man, but still a child. This last incarnation of the original Captain Marvel is the subject of the upcoming <i>Shazam!</i> movie. One reviewer has already called the film "<i>Superman</i> meet <i>Big</i>."<br />
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I hope I made this clear, although I doubt it will ever be clear. Let's try to go back over this very quickly.<br />
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<li>Shazam was originally Captain Marvel, but now just goes by Shazam. </li>
<li>Shazam has been in live action in movies & TV before. Captain Mar-vell has never been in a live action production until this year.</li>
<li>Captain Marvel is based on both the Captain Mar-vell & Ms. Marvel.</li>
<li>Because Marvel had the name Captain Marvel copyrighted for a comic book in the 60s, D. C couldn't use the name Captain Marvel in the title of a comic book when they revived the original Captain Marvel in the 70s. They called the book Shazam!, and later threw in the towel and called the character Shazam (see #1).</li>
<li>The Fawcett/D.C character Captain Marvel/Shazam is easy to understand and is closer to a fairy tale than a science fiction adventure. Marvel's Captain Marvel was hard science fiction/space opera. It can be confusing. </li>
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I can't wait to see the <i>Shazam!</i> movie, because I was a huge fan of the D.C character as a child. I might watch <i>Captain Marvel</i> sometime, but I did like the Marvel character, so I'm not in a hurry to see it. Then again, I didn't know much about <i>Black Panther</i> and I loved his movie.<br />
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On another personal note, I mentioned liking the Shazam/Captain Marvel character, when I was a child. My mother thought Shazam was the characters name. Unfortunately, she passed away in February. I think she would be happy to know that she had his name right all along. <br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-40048172805271547052019-03-16T11:28:00.000-05:002019-09-19T21:02:54.876-05:00FACTS & FINDINGS ABOUT 1966<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know what you are going to say, "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" To tell the truth, I've been in 1966. As I have discussed here and on my podcast, I'm working a novel based on a story I featured in a post on the old blog about two college students, who ran around Springfield, Missouri, dressed as Batman & Robin, at the height of Batmania in the spring of 1966.<br />
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In research for this novel, I've found some interesting things about the pop culture of the spring of 1966. There have been books and retro blogs dedicated to 1966. It has been called "the year pop culture exploded." There are some surprising things about the pop culture world that people seldom mention.<br />
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MANY CLASSIC ROCK SONGS WERE HITS FOR OTHER ARTIST<br />
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"Hey Joe," "Get Together," and "Babe I'm Going to Leave You," were already around in 1965 - 1966. However, they were not the versions we hear on classic rock radio today. The Kingston Trio recorded a version of "Get Together," under its original title, "Let's Get Together," on a 1964 live LP. The group We Five ("You Were On My Mind") had a Top 40 hit with the song in late 65 - early 66. There was also a version by the folk group The Back Porch Majority. In the summer of 1966, Jefferson Airplane put out a version on their debut LP, <i>Jefferson Airplane Takes Off</i>. The Youngbloods recorded there softer and slower version in 1967 and released it as a single, which bombed, but became a Top 5 hit in 1969, after it was used in a religious PSA.<br />
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The Association's first single in 1965 was "Babe I'm Going to Leave You." It had been introduced by Joan Baez in 1962. The Association's version failed to chart nationally. In 1967, Quicksilver Messenger Service recorded a version of the song for the soundtrack of a movie called <i>Revolution</i>. In 1969, Led Zeppelin recorded their version on their debut LP. Interestingly enough, The Association began performing it in their live shows the next year. However, Led Zep never attempted to do "Cherish" or "Windy" in concert.<br />
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Next to the "Batman Theme," the most covered song of 1966 was "Hey Joe." The Byrds and Love both recorded it. An L.A. band called The Leaves had a Top 40 hit with it in 1966. All of these versions were fast and uptempo. In late 1966, the Jimi Hendrix Experience released their slow, bluesy version. After that, few bands attempted to cover "Hey Joe."<br />
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DEAN MARTIN WAS A TRIPLE THREAT IN 1966<br />
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Dino was everywhere! Martin had been a star since the early 50s, when he was working with Jerry Lewis. After their break up, his career was a roller coaster ride through a string of hit records and a string of duds, a string a critically acclaimed movies and a string of flops and a handful of routine variety show hosting gigs for Timex.<br />
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His wining streak started in 1964 when he managed to hit Number 1 on the Billboard chart with a upbeat cover of a ballad his pal Frank Sinatra originally recorded, "Everybody Loves Somebody."It was the first of a streak of Top 40 hits that included, "Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On," "I Will," "Remember Me, I'm The One Who Loves You," "I Will," and "Houston."<br />
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In the fall, he hosted the <i>Hollywood Palace</i> variety show on ABC for several weeks. During some appearances by an up and coming British band, the Rolling Stones, Dean began making jokes about the band. Someone at the rival network, NBC, thought Martin should be given his own show. It debuted in the fall of 1965 and ran until 1973.<br />
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In 1966, Martin made a second movie with John Wayne, <i>The Sons of Katie Elder</i>. This was also the year, Martin began playing secret agent Matt Helm with the movie <i>The Silencers</i>.<br />
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ON THE OTHER HAND, ELVIS SUCKED IN 1966<br />
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I realize people will hate me for that above statement, but the musical output of Elvis Presley was lackluster at best. Elvis was in a movie contract with MGM and what few single he put out were songs from the movies. He did put a non-soundtrack song called "Tell Me Why," which is forgotten today for a reason...it's not that good. It is a slow attempt at blues.<br />
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One of the better singles of this era was "Crying In the Chapel" from the summer of 65. It was recorded in 1960 for a gospel LP, but shelved because the Jordanaires weren't happen with their performance and Colonel Tom Parker couldn't buy the rights to the song. By 1965, RCA needed a new Elvis single to compete with the British Invasion groups, the publisher that owned the rights were bought out by another company who were willing to deal with the Colonel and new recording techniques could improve the original recordings. So RCA released it at Easter time and by the summer it was the first Top 10 hit for Elvis in since 1962. This lead to Elvis recording another gospel LP. A 1966 newspaper article said Elvis was considering recording only gospel from that point forward.<br />
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One thing about the songs Elvis recorded, at that time, was he used a soft, tenor voice. After his 1968 comeback special, Elvis began singing in a brash, bombastic, baritone voice on songs like "In the Ghetto," "Little Less Conversation," "Burning Love," "Kentucky Rain," and "Suspicious Minds." The mid-60s stuff songs almost out of character and kind of wimpy, which is probably why these songs don't have the impact of his early 60s hits or comeback hits.<br />
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TWO POP STARS DIED AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR POPULARITY (and wild rumors followed)<br />
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Bobby Fuller and Barry Young had two totally different styles. Fuller (above) was a Texas born musician, who mined the song book of fellow Texan Buddy Holly's back-up band, The Crickets; Young was a square-jawed, wavy haired, singer from Oklahoma, who sounded liker Dean Martin. Fuller and his band, The Bobby Fuller Four, had three Top 40 hits, "Let Her Dance," "Love Has Made a Fool of You", and (the biggest one) "I Fought The Law." In July of 1966, Fuller was found dead in the front seat of his mother's car, covered with gasoline. The coroner had listed his death as both accidental & suicide, but had added question marks next to each. Rumors that he was murdered by the Mafia, his manager, the owner of his record company, and L.A. law enforcement (upset over the hit "I Fought the Law"). One of his band members has put forth a theory that he was an early victim of celebrity-hating, cult leader Charles Manson. The truth is still unknown.<br />
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Barry Young has one hit. A (pardon the pun) dead-on sound alike of a Reprise era Dean Martin hit. It was a cover of a country son by Jimmy Wakely (many of Dean's recent hits were covers of country songs), with a big string section, background singers and a electric rhythm guitar. Young even made a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3eCgn1LY8" target="_blank">Scopitone music video for this song</a>. Young died of a brain abscess backstage after a performance in December of 1966. Since Young had only one hit, his death was probably under reported. This was before social media and the mainstream media, at the time, was more focused on the war in Vietnam & the civil rights movement. Over the years, a story has been circulated, even by reference books and the liner notes of oldies compilations, that Dean Martin, with help from Reprise "Chairman of the Board" Frank Sinatra had Young's records banned from radio. The truth is much sadder than legend.<br />
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NOT ALL FOLK WAS ANGRY & EDGY, MUCH OF IT WAS KIND OF DORKY<br />
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When younger people think of folk music of the 60s, they think of Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Judy Collins or Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction." Truth is that was the exception to the rule. Quite a bit of what was popular was the "family friendly" kind of stuff parodied in the film, <i>The Mighty Wind</i>. Groups like The Kingston Trio, Brothers Four, The Limelighters, Serendipity Singers, New Christy Minstrels (which Barry McGuire sang lead on most of their hits), and the Back Porch Majority were non-offensive and not going to anger anyone, except hard core fans of rock & roll. Some of the songs they sang were the ones we grew up singing in elementary school and elementary school teachers used their records in class. They were popular guest on TV variety shows of the era and heard on the radio.<br />
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By 65-66, Dylan was really more of a rocker with psychedelic lyrics and the British invasion groups inspired other many folk groups to go rock as well. As the times changed (wasn't that a Dylan song), the smiling, happy, folk acts of the early 60s seemed tame and antiquated. They disappeared or morphed into sunshine pop groups.<br />
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A VETERAN COUNTRY PERFORMER SANG A PROTEST SONG ABOUT CHEAPSKATES<br />
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A handful of country singers popped up to record lame answer songs to Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction." On the other hand, one well-established country western star decided to jump into the protest movement too. Little Jimmy Dickens (above), who sang about being a "tater-eatin" country boy and Bessie the educated cow, took on the problem of frugal people with his only Top 40 Pop hit "May The Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose." The song was written by a D-J, who got the chorus from one of the curses Johnny Carson used in his Carnak the Magnificent skits (I guess "May a spider spin a web on your toilet seat" is too long for the title of a hit song).<br />
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THERE WAS A SONG ABOUT A HOOKER FROM CANADA & A COUNTRY SONG ABOUT SOMEONE SOILING THEMSELVES<br />
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A band from Quebec called The Haunted released a Stones-ish rocker called "1-2-5." The record company made them change it because they said it was "obvious" the girl in the song was a prostitute. The group obliged, but added a verse that slammed the record company. "A room full of clowns looking back at me, A line of executives formed to the right." Since the band was from Quebec, it was issued in both English & French.<br />
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The Hardin Trio was a brother (Bobby) & two sisters (Arlene & Robbie) from England...England, Arkansas that is. In the 50s, they worked on the <i>Ozarks Jubilee</i> in Springfield, MO. In early 1966, they had a crossover hit called "Tippy Toeing." The song has a reference to someone soiling their pants. Girls: "Well Daddy come a runnin' with the water and a rag, Gonna need another diaper maybe." Bobby: "No need a hesitatin' or a wonderin' and a waitin'. I know what's the matter with the baby."<br />
I guess this past the censors since, as the group sang, "After all it's just a little bitty bay-bee." The song went to Number 2 (heh-heh) on the Country chart and Number 44 on the Pop Chart, but made several radio station surveys, more than likely because a program director or D-J said, "Let's play the song about the pooping baby" or they thought it would get them a date with Arlene Hardin (she was hot).<br />
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MUSIC VIDEOS WERE BORN<br />
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I mentioned the Scopitone music videos earlier. They were created in the early 60s for use with the Scopitone players, which were similar to juke boxes. They were on their way out by 65-66, due to problems with maintenance and the fact issues with censorship. Oddly enough, the one that caused the most problems was a video for the aforementioned <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCVpsFY1Fo" target="_blank">Back Porch Majority's song "Mighty Mississippi,</a>" which featured a leering riverboat gambler lifting up the skirts of Southern belles, to look at their bloomers, as the boarded a steamboat. Scopitone also had a video for one of the major hits of this time, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgQKzFOidW4" target="_blank">"These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra</a>.<br />
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Of course, the intro to D. A Panebaker's documentary on Bob Dylan, <i>Don't Look Back</i>, begins with, what many consider, the first major music video. It's Dylan, standing in an alley, holding up cue cards with selected words from the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0" target="_blank">"Subterranean Homesick Blues,"</a> while the song plays.<br />
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Music videos were mainly used by the British invasion groups, such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOcY1pk83bA" target="_blank">The Beatles</a>, Rolling Stones and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52cQeFBU2Kw" target="_blank">The Who</a>, as a way to appear on television shows around the world, without having travel to the United States, Japan, Italy, etc.<br />
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SOUL MUSIC WAS BIG, BUT MANY OF THE HITS ARE NO LONGER HEARD ON RADIO<br />
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Okay, as an oldies fan I thought I new every major Motown and Stax-Atlantic hit of this era. In doing research for my book I have found that I was wrong. There are several big hits from 65-66 by the major soul artist (Otis Redding, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops) that we never hear any more. How many times have you heard "One More Heartache" by Marvin Gaye (above); "Try Me" a power ballad by James Brown; "Something About You" by the Four Tops; "You've Been Cheating" by the Impressions, "My Baby" by the Temptations or Otis Redding's cover of the Stones "Satisfaction" on oldies radio?<br />
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Radio has been limiting the number of songs played on radio, due partly to automation systems. Another reason is the practice of "testing" songs for recognition by consulting groups. For oldies radio, it comes down to recognition. That is why much of what is on oldies radio are songs that have appeared in movies or commercials.<br />
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SOME HIT SINGLES WERE ON OTHER LABELS<br />
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Part of this was due to American record companies scrambling to sign British invasion groups. In 1964, The Beatles turned up on several other record labels, other than Capitol. "Twist and Shout" was first issued on a small record label called Tollie. The first Kinks single ("Long Tall Sally") was on Cameo/Parkway. The Who bounced around from Brunswick ("My Generation" & "I Can't Explain") to Atco ("Substitute") then to Decca/MCA, where they stayed until the 80s. Small Faces started off on RCA before going to Epic.<br />
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It wasn't just British groups jumping around. The Lovin Spoonful had one single ("Good Time Music") issued on Elektra and Sonny & Cher's "Baby Don't Go" was originally issued on Reprise.<br />
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RADIO WAS NOT AS RIGIDLY FORMATTED<br />
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There were only five main radio formats: Top 40, country & western, easy listening/adult contemporary, all news-talk shows, & classical. There were also religious stations (usually owned by a church) and ethnic stations (usually R & B stations with an African-American staff, some Spanish language, but also some German & Polish stations in large markets). However, there were many full service and block format radio stations. These were radio stations that aired everything in programming blocks. For example, early morning would usually be country & western, for the farmers; easy listening/adult contemporary in the midday for homemakers and office workers; Top 40 after 4 pm until sign off; religious programs (sometimes an hour before sign off) on Sunday morning and ballgames on Saturday. Yes, radio and TV stations used to sign off at midnight or 1 am.<br />
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There were also Owned and Operated radio and TV station. Some TV stations are still O & O, but it was nothing noticeable. Radio stations that were O & O, during this era, were still running programs from the network (NBC, CBS, ABC & Mutual).<br />
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Government regulations held media chains to one radio station per market, unlike today, with large corporations owning multiple radio stations in a market. The large corporations pretty much copy each others playlist and, as I mentioned earlier, limit the number of songs heard on a radio station.<br />
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In this era, radio stations had their own playlist. They were determined by what was on the Billboard or Cash Box charts, local sales and local request. Also, each radio station had its own program director, on staff, who determined what records got played on the radio station. No edicts from corporate headquarters. Sometimes, they threw in whatever they felt like or whatever the record company was pushing. There was more crossover of musical genres at this time. Roger Miller and Dean Martin would pop up between songs by the Beatles, Beach Boys and the Supremes.<br />
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Radio station also gave away "hit survey" list (I've included one above). Usually, these included ads, maybe coupons, from local business, as well as photos, or funny looking illustrations, of the D-Js (Yes kids, the radio stations used to promote the D-Js and the music) and information on your favorite recording artist. Some radio stations ran contest for "Teenager of the Week."<br />
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BOTH RADIO & TELEVISION RAN COMMERCIALS FOR CIGARETTES<br />
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The most advertised product on radio and TV in the 60s was cigarettes. One of the big hits of 1966 was "Happiness Is" by the Ray Conniff Singers, which was actually based on the popular Kent Cigarettes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9jGRFJXmfU" target="_blank">"Happiness to a smoker is a Kent" ad campaign.</a> In 1964, the surgeon general's report on the effects of cigarette smoke came out, followed by the package warnings and eventually, in 1971, cigarette commercial were banned from radio and TV. <br />
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ONE OF THE BIGGEST SONGS ON RADIO WAS THE MUSIC TO AN ALKA SELTZER AD<br />
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The popular instrumental hit "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach Is In)" by the T-Bones, was a rock & roll version of the folk-jug band music used in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBXLyXHkOb0" target="_blank">Alka-Seltzer TV campaign</a> called (you guess it) "No matter what shape your stomachs is in."<br />
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WHEN YOU WANT A BRITISH INVASION GROUP ON A TV SHOW, BUT CAN'T AFFORD A WHOLE BAND - CALL CHAD & JEREMY<br />
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British Invasion bands appeared often on variety shows, but on sitcoms and other scripted TV shows, the British Invasion was represented by the duo of Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde (above). In 1966 alone, the appeared in episodes of <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Patty Duke Show, Laredo</i> (which was a pilot for a proposed Western to star them as English music hall performers in the old West) and, of course, <i>Batman</i> (Catwoman stole their voices). <br />
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NOT EVERY TV MARKET WAS SERVED BY ALL THREE NETWORKS<br />
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Some markets (Springfield, Missouri, for example) had two TV stations and these stations "shared" ABC programing until an ABC affiliate was established in 1968. Other communities, may have "shared" CBS programs or NBC programs. Sometimes, the technology at some of the TV stations was so restricted by budget that transition between networks could be sudden, like someone unplugged NBC and plugged in ABC. Some programs were taped and shown at another time. In Springfield, the NBC affiliate (KYTV) was showing <i>Batman</i> on Monday & Tuesday night, instead of Wednesday & Thursday. That changed when the rival CBS affiliate (KTTS, now KOLR) picked it up later in the spring and ran it at the correct time.<br />
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THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS HAD A TV SHOW, BUT NOT THE ONE EVERYONE REMEMBERS<br />
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Their cutting edge variety show was a year away. This was a fantasy-"high concept" sitcom. In this show, Tommy was a sailor, who was washed overboard. He is sent back to Earth to be Dick's guardian angel "I'm to get you out of jams and stuff." Of course, Tommy instead gets him into "jams and stuff." The show was gone by the summer. Both Tom & Dick have said they hated the show.<br />
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THE FANTASY-HIGH CONCEPT SITCOMS DISAPPEARED (Get it)<br />
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While many people think of these shows, in regard to 60s television, the truth is they were not around that long. As a matter of fact, most of them were cancelled in 1966. By fall, the only ones left were <i>Bewitched</i>,<i> I Dream of Jeannie</i>, <i>Get Smart</i> and <i>Gilligan's Island</i> (which would only last one more year). Those three, along with the equally maligned rural sitcoms, would be around until 1970.<br />
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FIRST TV SHOWS TO TALK ABOUT HALLUCINATORY DRUGS WERE WESTERNS<br />
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If you grew up in the 80s and remember the "Just Say No" phase, you remember TV shows doing "a very special episode" where a character would learn the dangers of drinking and using drugs. LSD became a hot topic in the mid 60s. It became a plot line in TV shows, but not in the heavy handed way it would in the 80s. Also surprising was it first used as a plot line in two Westerns: <i>The Wild Wild West</i> & <i>Laredo</i>.<br />
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In a first season episode of <i>WWW</i>, Dr. Loveless invents a drug that causes "nightmarish visions" which he slips to Jim West, causing him to think his sidekick, Artemus Gordon, is trying to kill him.<br />
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<i>Laredo</i> did two "druggy" episodes during its second season. One involves criminals using hypnotic coins and drug-laced brandy to take control of Reese's mind. Capt. Parmele and Chad figure out somethings wrong with Reese, because he "complimented" Eric's clothes (Who dressed like a cross between Prince & Porter Wagoner) and he has started "taking baths." The other episode involved a cute, lady dentist, using laughing gas to rob banks and wealthy men.<br />
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After that, <i>Dragnet</i> returned to NBC and most of the late 60s color episodes dealt with drugs.<br />
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THE MINISKIRT REALLY HADN'T TAKEN OFF YET<br />
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When you see photos of this era and even fashion & clothing ads of this time, you will notice a lack of miniskirts, which are associated with this era. The miniskirt really didn't take over fashion until 1967. Hemlines were coming up, but not to the miniskirt level yet. The above photos are from the 1966 & 1967 editions of the Southwest Missouri State College <i>Ozarko</i> yearbook.<br />
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CEREAL BOX WHISTLES & ORANGE JUICE CANS WERE POPULAR HACKS<br />
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Phone freaking became popular fad with college students as a way to make long distance calls for free. Remember, there were no cell phones or competing long distance companies, just the Bell System. Some how the freakers found that you could throw off Ma Bell's automation systems with whistles that came free in cereal boxes. Supposedly, the best one to use came from Captain Crunch, because it was the exact pitch and tone as the tone on the automation system.<br />
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In the novel, a character, who is a phone freaker says he uses a whistle from a Post Sugar Rice Krinkles box. Not sure if they ever had a whistle as a prize, but I picked Sugar Rice Krinkles because 1) it is a defunct product, and 2) there is a lot of hate directed at this product on the Internet. Not because it had a politically incorrect Asian stereotype as its original mascot, but because their later mascot was a clown.<br />
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People frequently circulate a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3094hyz-K9Y" target="_blank">1960 TV commercial </a>featuring a clown and whine "This clown scares me. Waa Waa Waa! I'm scared of the clown. WWAAAAAA!"<br />
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While on the subject of life hacks of 1966, that utilized breakfast foods, frozen orange juice cans were popular with girls. What did they do with orange juice cans? They used them to create curls for their flip hairstyle. Apparently, many girls felt that regular hair rollers didn't create big enough curls, so they began rolling their hair on empty orange juice cans. Pretty ingenious if you ask me. This look was held in place by Dippty-Do, one of the first mass marketed hair gels. They also ironed each others hair with a steam iron on an ironing board. OOOWWW!!!<br />
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WORST MEDIA ABBREVIATION OR "WHO THE HELL IS SOLON?"<br />
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Newspapers of the day would run headlines like "Solon Condemns Viet Cong" or "LBJ Speaks To Solon" or "Solon Gives Nasa More Money. So, who is this Solon person. According to the Merriam - Webster Dictionary, "Solon was a particularly wise lawgiver in ancient Athens who was born in
approximately 630 B.C. and lived until about 560 B.C. He was one of the
Seven Wise Men of Greece, and he implemented a number of reforms in
Athenian law. In English, his name has been used generically since at
least 1625 to refer to any wise statesman. Contemporary American
journalists, with whom the term is especially popular, have extended the
meaning even further to include any member of a lawmaking body, wise or
not. In fact, today the word is sometimes used ironically for a
legislator who displays a marked lack of wisdom, rather than a profusion
of it." Solon was used, as an abbreviation, by newspapers of the 60s (which were still limited by typeset spaces) for both the Congress and the Senate. It is rarely used today since most people probably didn't know what it was referring to. <br />
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HOT NEW SOFT DRINKS<br />
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Pepsi began distributing a regional soft drink called Mountain Dew. It was originally marketed with cartoon hillbillies and a variation on the country-bluegrass standard "Mountain Dew" as its jingle. Mountain Dew is still popular with several different varieties on the market, including Mountain Dew Throwback in the original white, red & green cans with cartoon hillbillies on them.<br />
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At the same time, Coca Cola introduced the diet cola Tab. Tab was an acquired taste. Tab was phased out after the introduction of Diet Coke in the 80s. <br />
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THE GREAT POP CULTURE MOMENTS OF 1966 THAT HAPPENED AFTER MY NOVEL TAKES PLACE<br />
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Television shows that hadn't appeared yet:<br />
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Band that wasn't around yet: The following bands first recorded in 1966, but were not around yet:<br />
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as well as the Blues Magoos, 13th Floor Elevator, Electric Prunes, & Chocolate Watchband.<br />
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Music not around yet: "Wouldn't It Be Nice" & "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys; "Paperback Writer", "Rain", <i>Yesterday and Today</i> & <i>Revolver</i> by the Beatles; "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra; "Wild Thing" by The Troggs; "Summer In the City" by the Lovin Spoonful; "Sunshine Superman" by Donovan; "You Can't Hurry Love" & "You Keep Me Hanging On" by the Supremes; "Along Comes Mary" & "Cherish" by The Association; "Tell It Like It Is" by Aaron Neville; "Reach Out I'll Be There" by The Four Tops; "96 Tears" by Question Mark & the Mysterians; "Poor Side of Town" by Johnny Rivers; <i>Aftermath</i> by the Rolling Stones; "Hazy Shade of Winter" & <i>Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme</i> by Simon & Garfunkel; <i>Projections</i> by the Blues Project and <i>Blonde On Blonde</i> by Bob Dylan.<br />
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Movies not around yet: That would be most of the major movies of 1966, from the critically acclaimed <i>Man For All Seasons</i> to the <i>MST3K</i> favorite <i>Manos The Hands of Fate</i> (above), were released in the summer or Christmas season. The big hits were left over from 1965.<br />
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Comics characters not around yet: While <i>Peanuts</i> was as big as Batman during this time, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Franklin & Woodstock were not yet a part of the comic. Patty & Marcy didn't appear until August of 1966.<br />
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Black Panther makes his first appearance in a July issue of <i>Fantastic Four. </i><br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-38547864193714010102018-12-26T21:35:00.001-06:002018-12-26T21:35:52.803-06:00I JUST REMEMBERED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hadn't posted a photo of hot babes in Santa's Little Helper dresses this Christmas. That always upsets Ozarkers. </div>
Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-75148375349447294272018-12-24T17:54:00.000-06:002018-12-26T21:30:28.928-06:00THE MOST MALIGNED CHRISTMAS MOVIE EVER MAY HAVE BEEN AHEAD OF ITS TIME<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I guess I'm the only person whose favorite Christmas movie is <i>Santa Claus Conquers The Martians</i> from 1964. Just admitting this has caused violent reactions from people and some of those people are proud to say their favorite Christmas movie is <i>Die Hard</i>. It's like saying you like to watch the <i>Fat Albert Christmas Special</i> while listening to "Baby It's Cold Outside." People frequently point out that it always appears on list of worst movies ever made. However, I believe it is time to reexamine this film and see if, possibly, the films message may be more relevant today than it was in past decades.<br />
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The movie begins with the king of the Martians, Kimar, upset that his son, Bomar, and his daughter, Gimar, watch "silly Earth programs" on television. He ask the advise of the ancient wise man of Mars, Chochem, who deduces that it is Christmas time on Earth and the children of Mars are wanting the same kind of joy that children on Earth have, which is given by Santa Claus. "We have no children on Mars. They have children's bodies, but with adult's minds." Chochem tells Kimar, and the Counsel Chiefs of Mars, that children on Mars are conditioned, to be adults, from infancy. "The children must be allowed to be children again. They must learn to play. They must learn what it means to have fun. We need a Santa Claus on Mars."<br />
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Kimar comes up with a wrong-headed way of following Chochem's advise. He decides that there should be an expedition to Earth to kidnap Santa Claus.<br />
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The villain of this movie is Voldar. I included him in<a href="https://newadventuresofdesdinova.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-movie-villains.html" target="_blank"> my list of great Christmas movie villains</a>. He is against this idea, not because kidnapping is wrong, but he is against kids having fun. He seems to hate kids and Chochem, who he calls an "old fool." Voldar, at one point, sneers, "All this trouble for a fat, little man in a red suit." Later, when the other Martians start liking Santa Claus, Voldar gripes that Santa Claus is making Martians "soft." "We used to be the great warriors of the galaxy!" Voldar wants to make Mars great again. Voldar is the type of guy, who used the word "snowflake" and complains about kids getting participation awards.<br />
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It should be noted that this was the first movie to show, Mrs. Santa Claus. The Martians use their freeze ray on her. Later, a TV newscaster announces that "Mrs. Santa Claus positively identified her husband's kidnappers as Martians." <br />
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While kidnapping Santa Claus on Earth, the Martians take two kids, Billy & Betty, hostage. Voldar tries to kill the kids and Santa Claus. Kimar places Voldar under arrest for attempted murder.<br />
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Kimar takes the kids and Santa Claus to meet his children and his hot, smokin wife, Momar. When Billy offers to shake Bomar's hand, Bomar inspects his hand and says, "There's nothing in it. What are you giving me?' The next day, Kimar sets up a toy factory for Santa.<br />
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Santa Claus appoints Dropo to be the Santa Claus on Mars. He and Billy and Betty return to Earth. The End!<br />
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The movie is unfairly maligned. First off, it was made for children, not an adult audience expecting Oscar winning material. I'm sure the kids, who saw this in the theaters back in the 1960's, probably enjoyed it. They probably got in the theater with a canned food item, that was donated to a local charity. While in the theater, their parents finished Christmas shopping. It serves a good purpose. Of course, I've showed to my great-nephews and they enjoyed.<br />
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One of the first books to trash this movie was a book written by notorious, talk radio host Michael Medved. This "let children be children" & "children are smarter than adults" message of this film doesn't sit well the the talk radio morons like him. Trust me, I have, unfortunately, been forced against my will to with that kind of riff-raff for the past 18 years.<br />
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Another thing that has caused this movie to be derided for no reason, because of one of the stars. The role of Gimar was played by a young Pia Zadora (pictured above). In the 80s, Zadora was in the films <i>The Lonely Lady</i> and <i>Butterfly</i>. She won a Golden Globe award for <i>Butterfly</i>, which some felt was a questionable. She also made records and had songs hit the pop, country and adult contemporary charts. Because of the questions surrounding her Golden Globe award, she became a joke and favorite punchline of late night comedians. Somewhere along the line, someone discovered that she was in <i>Santa Claus Conquers the Martians </i>and that was added to the things that was wrong with movie.<br />
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People claim the acting is bad, but most of the acting in the film very good because they were Broadway performers. Pia Zadora was not the only star, who had a career after the film. Voldar was also a villain in episodes of <i>Man from UNCLE</i>, <i>Batman, Get Smart</i> and <i>The Monkees</i>. Santa Claus was in <i>The Anderson Tapes </i>and Dropo played Uncle Wally on <i>Sesame Street</i> and was in <i>Steel Magnolias</i>. Momar was a regular on the soap opera <i>The Doctors</i>. The TV reporter Andy Henderson got a job as the doorman at the "deluxe apartment" where George & Louise Jefferson lived.<br />
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I believe that <i>Santa Claus Conquers the Martians</i> should be considered a Christmas classic, as much as <i>It's a Wonderful Life</i> or <i>Miracle on 34th Street</i>. It is a fun, family film and the slander of it needs to stop.<br />
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Of course, opinions, like this one, is why I am considered SUPER-VILLAIN OF THE OZARKS!!! Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!<br />
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These photos are from a <i>Better Homes & Gardens</i> issue from December of 1975. The theme was to show how Christmas was being celebrated 200 years after America was founded. One thing you will notice is the trend is for folksy, homemade stuff in an effort to "go back to the good ole days." This was the era of <i>The Waltons</i> & <i>Little House on the Prairie</i>. I hated that, but I survived. As always, click on the photo to enlarge it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Remember, if you live out in the country, you have to decorate your tree in barnyard animals.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Country folk also decorate with big quilts on their wall.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now this is what I like. I remember the white tree trend. That was cool.</span></td></tr>
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Christmas music has been with us for many years. It has seen a boom thanks to radio stations going "All Christmas" in the past seventeen years. I recently saw a post on Tumblr about types of Christmas songs. The post was by a Millennial and very funny. I had thought several times about doing a post about different sub-genres of Christmas music. The Millennial kept his simple (about 5 types), but I had thought of some others. Some are obvious.<br />
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* JESUS IS BORN: "Joy To The World," "Away In the Manger," "Silent Night," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Do You Hear What I Hear?" & "What Child Is This." One of the more recent songs of this sub-genre is "Mary Do You Know."<br />
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* SANTA CLAUS IS COMING: "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Up On the House Top."<br />
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* THE LITTLE MISFIT WHO SAVES CHRISTMAS: Well, hands down the biggest one here is "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer." Second, would be "Little Drummer Boy." There was also "The Bell Who Couldn't Jingle," "Little Sandy Sleighfoot," and "Ding A-Ling the Christmas Bell."<br />
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* WE LOVE WINTER & SNOW: Hands down the biggie here would be "Jingle Bells." Then comes, "Winter Wonderland," "Sleigh Ride," "Marshmallow World," "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm," "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow." <br />
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* ALONE & DEPRESSED AT CHRISTMAS: Most of these came out of World War 2. With that said, I find most of depressing. "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Blue Christmas," & "White Christmas." More recently Wham gave us "Last Christmas."<br />
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* CHRISTMAS AMERICANA: The best example would be "No Place Like Home For The Holidays," however, I would count "The Christmas Song" & "Silver Bells" in this group. They are bigger songs. Another example of this is a song called "Christmas In My Home Town."<br />
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* BRITISH ROCKERS CHANNELING CHARLES DICKENS: For some reason, this is my favorite sub-genre, because it has only four songs in it and all are from the 70s. Jethro Tull's "Christmas Song," Emerson Lake & Palmer's "I Still Believe in Father Christmas," The Kinks "Father Christmas," and, of course, "Happy Xmas (the War Is Over)" by John Lennon.<br />
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* CHRISTMAS GOES HAWAIIAN: This one has even less songs than the British rocker/Dickens sub-genre. It is also the one I understand the least. My guess it is an off-shoot of the exotic trend of the late 40s & 50s. There are only two songs, but they surprisingly get played on "all Christmas" radio. They are "Christmas Island" & "Mele Kalikimaka."<br />
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* PRETTY DECORATIONS:"Deck The Halls," "O Christmas Tree," "It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas" and "We Need a Little Christmas."<br />
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* CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS: "Frosty The Snowman," "I Want a Hippopatamous for Christmas," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," "Nuttin For Christmas," & "The Chipmunk Song."<br />
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* CHRISTMAS PARTY CELEBRATION: "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," "Happy Holidays," "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree." I would also count "12 Days of Christmas," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," & "Here We Come A-Caroling."<br />
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* THE XMASTIZED VERSION OF THE BIG HIT: These rarely get played. Bobby Boris Picket's "Monster's Holiday," James Brown's "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag." My favorite is Mickey Gilley's "The Girls All Get Prettier at Christmas Time" and my least favorite is "Santa Claus is Coming In a Boogie Woogie Choo-Choo Train" by The Tractors.<br />
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Yes, this is just typical geeky blogger over analyzing, but also something fun. Feel free to share this with your friends.<br />
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Desdinovahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03494190206293363835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595484989194615855.post-64910166303674599212018-10-31T02:40:00.000-05:002018-10-31T02:40:11.850-05:00HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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