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Once again, the PHANTOM PHANABLA strikes with a boffo weekend post to make your funtime even more ginchy-gooshy what with alla the reviews and nooze that I have in store for ya. As you can tell from...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! HENRY ALDRICH #21 (Dell Comics, June 1954)Among my recently acquired batch of fifty-cent comics was a cut-cover copy of the second-to-last issue of the HENRY ALDRICH...
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LIVE CONCERT REVIEW BY BRAD KOHLER! BLONDE BOY WILSON! I went to high school with Mr. Wilson. He was blonde, if not yet Blonde Boy Wilson, and a somewhat legendary character and studious curator of his...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW! THE MAN IS ARMED! starring Dane Clark and William Talman (Republic, 1956)Dane Clark plays Johnny Morrison, this schlub of a truck driver who just got outta the pen after doing a...
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I used to feel sorry for all of them kids who were goin' back to school around this time of year (remember when Labor Day was that last gasp of fresh summer vacation air?), but not anymore. I can't...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! DENNIS THE MENACE : RISE AND SHINE (Fawcett, 1972)I’ve always been a fan of Dennis The Menace, but as someone with grandsons of 4 and 7, I am again reminded why Dennis...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW! BLIND DATE (1959) STARRING HARDY KRUGER, MICHELLE PRESLE AND STANLEY BAKER!Yeah, I know a whole lotta you think that English movies are dryer than Taylor Swift's reproductive...
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As you can see from the extensive length of this post, I have been busy spinnin' (but not necessarily grinnin') o'er a variety of records 'n such I played this past week. I guess with the holiday...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! TRAPPED IN TANGIERS (ITALY-SPAIN 1957), STARRING EDMUND PURDOM!With the first scene taking place on the Tangier docks in the murky evening----a sports car whose...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW! CONTRABAND SPAIN STARRING RICHARD GREENE (1955) If any of you are old enough to be nostalgic for pre-1961 Amerigan tee-vee you might just love this 'un.Of course not for the RIGHT...
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Well here I is, bangin' the same drum and rattlin' on about the same old musical cause (the cause being rock 'n roll) that I have been doin' for well over thirtysome years now already! Must seem like a...
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ROCK MAGAZINE REVIEW! UGLY THINGS #48 (available here)These magazines seem to be comin' out faster'n I can keep up with 'em but hey, ain't that part of the fun?Eh, not really, but I gotta admit that I...
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You think you're tired and disengaged? Try being good ol'ME for a change! Don't believe me? Well, just try making your way through THIS post which I gotta say I struggled with even more'n I did that...
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RECORD REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! NIGHT TRAIN (RCA Camden Records)Good old-style thrift stores/junk stores have gone the way of real rock’n’roll----they’re still out there, but harder to find....and when...
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BOOK REVIEW! THE FLYING TRIO (Gawandaland Comics)Hoo is this ba-ad stuff! Cheap art and sappoid stories...I coulda seen a whole slew of page-boy'd bell bottom and kerchief'd teenagers who made up the...
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(To be repetitious and hackneyed about it...) Well, gotta say that the advent of October sure does bring back quite a few nicey-nice memories in this ever-shiny bean of mine, and that's despite those...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW! THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD (1968) Hokay, I'll start off with the obvious jokes about how Mansfield was once two of the biggest stars in Hollywood who won many an award...
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I dunno about you, but right now I'm feeling PRETTY GOOD for once in my ever fanabain' life! Sure the work load is tough and I usually end the day feeling like a wash rag that's been rung too many a...
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MOOM PITCHER REVIEW BY BILL SHUTE! ARIZONA TERRITORY (1950), STARRING WHIP WILSON AND ANDY CLYDE!Whip Wilson was one of the last, if not the last, newly developed star of his own B-Western series...
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COMIC BOOK REVIEW! PEP #46, February 1944 (available via Golden Age Reprints) I'm just about positive, unless you were one of those tight-sphinctered gal types I went to school with, that you like I...
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