The Sudden Curve

This Blog is Not Approved

but is suitable for children anyway.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who is not approved, either.

Life is Good...

...when you're a Teenage Dope Slave!!!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who has to buy this book.

An International Murder Machine

Posted by Bob Wallace, who saw this film as a kid and had the bejesus scared out of him.

The Greatest Cologne of All Time

Posted by Bob Wallace, who wore this stuff in high school.

I'll miss you, Moneypenny

Lois Maxwell has died of cancer at the age of 80. Lois is to many of us the real Miss Moneypenny in the 007 movie franchise because (1) she was the first and (2) she played the role in more than a dozen movies, opposite three James Bonds (Connery, Lazenby, and Moore) and at least two M's.

Goodnight, dear Moneypenny.

Posted by Wally Conger, who thinks his late mother kinda looked like Lois Maxwell, in a certain light.

Supergirl: A disappointing debut

So my wife and I were both curious enough about the TV debut of Supergirl on Smallville this past week to tune in the season opener. We haven't watched the show in a few years. I'm not sure what Deb's real reasons were for watching on Thursday; mine are pretty damn obvious. Anyway, what we got instead of a full-on debut of Laura Vandervoort were a few mere glimpses. They were disappointing. Heck, Supergirl never even spoke, and the longest moment with her was maybe 20 seconds of her sitting on a mountaintoip or something, looking pensive.

Judging by the previews for this coming week's episode, it looks like we'll get our real Supergirl debut on October 4. My fingers are crossed.

Posted by Wally Conger, who's already smitten with this mysterious blonde from Krypton.

"Wait Until He Rides by...

...then we'll get him!"

The Greatest Title of All Time

Bride of the Rat God

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's never read the book but will real soon.

This is Me Watching the Who

Live at Leeds

This is me watching the Who at the Mississippi River Festival when I was 14 years old. I'm right under that black arrow on the right side. Posted by Bob Wallace, who remembers it like it was yesterday, even though it was 1972.

Music Video Babe :: Olivia Newton-John (again)

About a year ago, while gathering information for my "Great Individuals" feature of Ender's Review, I noticed that Olivia Newton-John had her birthday. For the last few years I have not used living people for "Great Individuals", instead honoring those who have passed to the next realm of existence, whatever that might be.

After coming upon Olivia's birthday, I scanned YouTube and watched a bunch of her old videos. It got me wondering and a few weeks later I posted my first Music Video Babe entry here which focused on Olivia. The particular YouTube video I picked "is no longer available," but one can usually find her classic "mirrors and rug video" in one or more postings there with a YouTube search.

I didn't make that first MV Babe entry on Olivia's birthday as I have tried to do for subsequent music video babes, so I'm revisiting Olivia today on her birthday with a special video I found, made from multiple performances of one of her earlier hits. I really like the video as it shows her passage through thirty years.

Happy Birthday Olivia . . .

and may you have many more.

Posted by Tom Ender, who got Olivia's music Video Gold volume one on DVD for Christmas last year. Maybe this year volume two.

Presenting :: Tales From The Pub ~ "The Return"

posted by Tom Novak who looks exactly like Fay's late mutant.

Just Plain Dangerous Babe Celine Dion

I haven’t been a Celine Dion fan — until now. Here’s the cover of her new CD. I haven’t heard it yet, and I doubt I ever will. But I am thrilled with Celine’s new “look” on the CD jacket. She looks like she wants to, uh, hurt me. If only she’d played the White Witch in Disney’s Narnia movie a couple of years ago, that film would have been perfect.

Taking Chances

Posted by Wally Conger, who admits that he has some "problems" with women.

Khalk'ru!!!

Posted by Bob Wallace, who sez, Khalk'ru was a Kraken who wanted beautiful young virgins sacrificed to him, which I can understand, because I've sacrificed a couple of virgins myself, if you know what I mean, heh heh.

Dwellers in the Mirage

BOOK OF KHALK’RU

CHAPTER I.

SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT

I raised my head, listening,—not only with my ears but with every square inch of my skin, waiting for recurrence of the sound that had awakened me. There was silence, utter silence. No soughing in the boughs of the spruces clustered around the little camp. No stirring of furtive life in the underbrush. Through the spires of the spruces the stars shone wanly in the short sunset to sunrise twilight of the early Alaskan summer.

A sudden wind bent the spruce tops, carrying again the sound—the clangour of a beaten anvil.

I slipped out of my blanket, and round the dim embers of the fire toward Jim. His voice halted me.

“All right, Leif. I hear it.”

The wind sighed and died, and with it died the humming aftertones of the anvil stroke. Before we could speak, the wind arose. It bore the after-hum of the anvil stroke—faint and far away. And again the wind died, and with it the sound.

“An anvil, Leif!”

“Listen!”

A stronger gust swayed the spruces. It carried a distant chanting; voices of many women and men singing a strange, minor theme. The chant ended on a wailing chord, archaic, dissonant.

Dwellers in the Mirage

Posted but not written by Bob Wallace.

Someday...

I'm going to open up a pulp magazine, and rerun all the old covers and stories. Most of them are probably in the public domain, anyway.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who actually knows who Khalk'ru is.

Blood, Beasts and Breasts

Hey, I don't care about Shakespeare and Dostoevsky and all those guys. I want BLOOD, BEASTS and BREASTS.

Here you got yer breasts, and the blood and the beasts are off stage, left to the imagination. And that is okay.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who's about ten-years-old at heart.

No Reason at All

I decided to post this old magazine cover. Well, may I was wondering: exactly how would that Space Babe's clothes come off?

Posted by Bob Wallace, who wants the pistol that guy has.

"Mess with Me and I'll Kick Your Butt"

Posted by Bob Wallaee, who wonders what happened in the next shot.

Sidebar Babe :: Caroll Baker

One of the most oft-commented upon and spectacular Sidebar Babes of the past year is this weeks offering ... as we leap into the deep end of our pool of Sidebar Babes for our weekly; Guess The The Sudden Curve Sidebar Babe Contest - or GTTSCSBC for short.

This Sidebar Babe might be a little bit more of a challenge than our previous Sidebarettes.

So anyone who gets this one right off the get-go gets extra points for the difficulty factor. First correct commentor gets entered into the shallow end of our pool of Sidebar Babe Guessers and becomes eligible in the drawing to win a whiz-bang TSC Logo Item, of yet to be determined origin.

Easy as pie cheats have been removed for all you sneaky source code viewers ... not that you needed them so far.

posted by Tom Novak, who is thinking coffee cup as the prize - since one size fits all - if you factor in refills.

Always Kinda Liked Julie Newmar...

Probably the first time I saw Julie Newmar was in an episode of the original Twilight Zone. She played some sort of a devil, if I remember correctly.

Her biggest role, though, was as Catwoman in Batman.

I always liked her because she had those long dancer legs. Her mom used to be a dancer, too, which I guess is where she got them from.

Posted by Bob Wallace, who has short Marvin the Martian legs.