MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE NEW ADVENTURES OF DESDINOVA!

The New Adventures of Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozarks: MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE NEW ADVENTURES OF DESDINO...: That is me, Christmas 1978.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DESDINOVA!!!

Here are some photos of the things I want for Christmas. I'm sure this will upset some of the bloggers from the Nixa/Ozark area.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!!! 70IF

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon would have been 70 today, if...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR! The past decade has been rough, so let's hope and pray things get better. I'm sure they will be better when I rule the world!!! Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM DESDINOVA!!!

I didn't have time for a great Christmas post of fun stuff like last year. I still want to wish you a merry and blessed Christmas! Enjoy being with your family. Think about the poor and needy, the sick and afflicted, as well as our service people serving abroad. Hopefully they can all be home soon. Most of all remember the reason for this season and message of love and peace that Jesus Christ brought to the word.

My other wish is that Santa brings me what is sitting on his lap in the photo above.

Once again, Merry Christmas from Desdinova the Super Villain of the Ozarks!!! Mwu-HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!!!

A QUICK THOUGHT ON THANKSGIVING

On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to get something off my chest. The one thing I never liked about Thanksgiving was the emphasis on the pilgrims. I didn't want to study about the pilgrims, because they were boring and dull. The pilgrims were always presented as so-hollier-than-thou people that we could never measure up to. However, in a college course I had to read pilgrim diaries. These were not only boring, but the pilgrims spent most of their time having sex. The pilgrims have to be the most overrated group in history, next to the dorky founding fathers. Of course, opinions like this are why I'm considered the Super-Villain of the Ozarks!!! Mwu-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MAMAS!

Do something nice for your mama, even if her name isn't Cass.

Gay Xmas on Park Central Square in Springfield, MO 1959

I had to post a bit of this Woolworth's ad from a 1959 Springfield News Leader. I was hoping to see how many people's heads exploded. I bet some will write the News Leader, upset that they printed a "gay" back in the 50's. I bet this will get the phones on KSGF buzzing (the fine folks over at KWTO-AM have better things to do this week).

I should note that as mentioned in the Cranks post, women's panties were a dollar and Milk of Magnesia was sixty cents. I should also mention to Busplunge that the item he got a kick out of was a brand name, Child's Razor Blades, not childs razor blades (For little shavers?).

Lebanon Daily Record 1959: Mr. Magoo Gives Stag Beer For Xmas

From a December 1959 Lebanon Daily Record. I find the unusual because we have not only the idea a beer for a Christmas gift being given by a cartoon character, but the ad is in the newspaper of a town the only recently started allowing liquor sales in grocery stores.

Springfield News Leader 1959 - Whiskey for Christmas

The Springfield News Leader and Daily News were filed with hard alcohol ads in the 50's. There seem to be a push to give them as gifts at Christmas time.

1959 XMAS in Springfield News Leader

These ads are from Christmas time 1959. They're for a chain of drug/variety stores called Cranks that were in Springfield. We hear about how "perfect" the 1950's were for family values.

These ads feature the use of "Xmas." I also notice that these stores in the 50's ran specials every week on women's panties and Milk of Magnesia. I wonder if there was a connection.

Halloween Movie Ideas

Many people who are too old to trick or treat (or go on a pub crawl) like to rent or purchase horror movies to watch. Granted many popular websites and magazines have "Scariest of All-Time" list, but most of those are films made during the last four decades. Some lazy people give you films made only since 2000. I'm going to give you different choices.

Traditional: The Universal monsters are always good for Halloween. That includes these set featuring Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman. Add to that the Hollywood's Legends of Horror Collection, which included Bela Lugosi and a proto-Goth Chick in Mark of the Vampire, Boris Karloff as politically incorrect villain Fu Manchu, the early color film Doctor X and it's boring sequel staring Humphrey Bogart, Mad Love with Peter Lorre as a Stewie Griffin prototype and Devil Doll with Lionel Barrymore as a Mrs. Doubtfire prototype. Also try out Frederic March's version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

A Ton of Fun for a Good Price: Check out Mill Creek's Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack. Some great stuff and a few clinkers, but for under $20 bucks in most stores.

For kids: Try to find Mad Monster Party featuring the voices of Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller and Gale Garnett. There is also the 70's Saturday morning cartoon the Groovie Ghoulies.

Ultimate pick: It's a DVD (pic above) put out a few year ago by Something Weird called Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (Spook Show Spectacular). The title movie is a hokey beach party thing with guys in gorilla suits running around, however if you can maneuver the tricky menu on this you will find several things including Bert I. Gordon's Tormented (a psychological ghost thriller), an anti-cable TV ad using art work from Famous Monsters magazine, monsters movies made by kids from the 20's and 30's (seriously these are good), monstrous musical numbers from the Big Band era (one features a dancing skeleton puppet) and a goofy 50s educational film called Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (the sequel was called Don't Wet the Bed).

Bad Cinema at It's Finest: Andy Milligan's 1970 Vampire film the Body Beneath. Filmed in Highgate Cemetery (fooled some Brits who thought vampires were in Highgate) with red-headed-green vampire women in prom dresses, a hippie hunchback is set on fire and nailed to a church door, a maid has her eyes poked out with knitting needles and the fat ghost of Queen Victoria spouts anti-American sentiments. Here is the trailer to get you interested.

HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE HALLOWEEN!

Git Yer Punkin at the Studio & Flags Should Be At Half Staff for Damiano

This is from an October 1978 Springfield News Leader. Another ad for the Studio. This holiday classic stars John "Wadd" Holmes.

I also think the flags should be at half staff for Gerard Damiano, the pioneering adult film director of Deep Throat, who died this week at age 80. If it wasn't for him Mark Felt couldn't have brought down Tricky Dicky. CNN has Damiano's obit.

FIVE DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN

Yes, five days until Halloween, my favorite holliday. Of course, none of the radio stations in Springfield are playing wall-to-wall Halloween music like I have suggested they should. Watch - next week one of the stations will start playing wall-to-wall Christmas music just to irritate me. YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY CHRISTMAS MUSIC UNTIL DECEMBER!

Last Halloween, I posted a list of my Top 50 favorite songs for Halloween. I have had more hits on that post than any other. I've decided to post that list of songs again.
These songs are not in order:

1. Monster Mash – Bobby B. Pickett
2. Dinner With Drac – John Zacherle
3. Til The Following Night – Screaming Lord Sutch
4. Bark at the Moon – Ozzy Osbourne
5. Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
6. Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
7. Children of the Grave – Black Sabbath
8. Creature with The Atom Brain – Roky Erikson
9. Season of the Witch – Donavon
10. Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
11. Frankenstein – Edgar Winter Group
12. Black Magic Women – Santana
13. She’s Fallen In Love with a Monster Man – Screaming Lord Sutch
14. She’s My Witch – Kip Tyler
15. The Voodoo Walk - Sonny Richard’s Panics (with Cindy and Lindy)
16. Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley
17. The Midnight Stroll – The Revells
18. Vampire Rock and Roll – Fabulous Poodles
19. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) – Marilyn Manson
20. Spooky – Atlanta Rhythm Section
21. Thriller – Michael Jackson
22. Red Right Hand – Nick Cave
23. Witch Queen of New Orleans – Redbone
24. Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula – the Diamonds
25. Boris the Spider – The Who
26. Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
27. Frankenstein - New York Dolls
28. Nightmare- Artie Shaw
29. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Sounds Incorporated
30. Casting My Spell - Johnny Otis Show
31. Night of Fear - The Move
32. You Must Be a Witch - Lollipop Shop
33. Charlotte’s Web - the Fuzztones
34. The Mummy - Bob Mc Fadden and Dor
35. The Blob - the Five Blobs
36. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Ramrods
37. Hurry Sundown - The Outlaws
38. I Put a Spell on You - Screamin Jay Hawkins
39. Sympathy for the Devil - the Rolling Stones
40. Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
41. King Kong - The Kinks
42. Rockin in the Graveyard - Jackie Morningstar
43. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
44. The Witch - the Sonics
45. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
46. Black JuJu - Alice Cooper
47. I Walk on Gilded Splinters - Dr. John
48. Frankenstein’s Den - The Hollywood Flames
49. Screaming Ball at Dracula Hall - the Duponts
50. Grimly Fiendish - The Damned

I recently found another Halloween song. This is a German-made early disco song called "Soul Dracula." It was a big hit in Europe in 1975, which many people agree was the begining of the Disco Era. This should have been the nail in disco's coffin or stake in it's heart. I'm giving you this performance from a French TV variety show, because it has a cool looking Count Dracula, sexy dancing girls and a man in the audience with a dog puppet.