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Cheesy Throwbacks

Posted on June 2, 2023 by mohawkvalleygirl

I begin this post by admitting the real reason I refrained from making a Wayback Wednesday Post yesterday was that I was pretty sure I would want to make a Throwback Thursday Post today.

As I lounge on my couch pecking in one letter at a time with the stylus on my Tablet, I am continuing my viewing of 50 Horror Classics with a bit of foolishness called Blood Lust. It did not look familiar when I put it in, but I quickly recognized it. I wrote a blog post about it once.

I’m still a little freaked by the presence of Mike Brady.

I miss writing posts about cheesy horror movies. They are fun to write. I like to have fun writing.

Cheesy reading material.

Searching for something else to throw back to, I found this pulp fiction cover (actual pulp fiction, not the movie of that name, which I never saw, by the way). I once had a bunch of post cards of pulp fiction covers, but I eventually mailed them all to people. I wish I knew where to get more.

Waaaait a minute! As I proofread this post, I see that this is, in fact, a movie, not a book! How careless of me! I am quite mortified. I must seek some pulp paperback covers for future blog posts (I am much too tired to do it now).

One of my favorite shirts.

I was just wearing this shirt yesterday, to my Dad’s birthday party. I got it some time ago at Original Herkimer Cheese in Ilion, NY. I need to get back there soon for some chutter: tastes like cheddar, spreads like butter. Yum!

So I threw back to my own blog, my sent postcards, and a shirt I still have, plugging a local business along the way. And I did it in over 300 words. Happy Thursday, everyone!

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Vamping with Vampires

Posted on September 20, 2022 by mohawkvalleygirl

It should come as a surprise to no one that I am ready for bed on a Monday, have not made my blog post (nor in fact accomplished much of anything useful), and, quite frankly, I got nuthin’. This is the point where I usually start to throw in pictures of monsters and vamp. One thing I can do is vamp, although I usually call it blathering on. Why don’t I call it vamping? It sounds like a much better thing to do, in a blog post or elsewhere.

“I’m kind of in the middle of something here.”

Since I mentioned vamping (no, autocorrect, not camping, vamping!), I searched my Media Library for a picture of a vampire. I was hoping for Dracula, but Nosferatu will do just as well.

“Let me shed a little light on the subject.”

There’s my boy Bela! Bela Lugosi is considered by many to be the definitive Count Dracula. It is certainly an admirable performance.

I wish I had this book in my collection!

I do not know who the model was for this depiction of the Count, if in fact the artist used a model, but I just love these pulp fiction paperbacks. I buy them whenever I find them for cheap. Sometimes I actually read them, although they are often falling apart.

I keep hoping I can segue from these admittedly foolish blog posts into some more better writing (grammatical error intentional), but it hasn’t happened yet. Still, one continues to hope (one being me). In the meantime, I hope at least some of my readers have been entertained, and as always, I thank you for tuning in.

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Short on Excuses, Long on Monsters: It’s Lame Post Friday!

Posted on July 29, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

If ever there was a day I needed Lame Post Friday, this is it. Fortunately, it is in fact Friday, the day I have decreed that I am allowed to make a really lame post. I know, what is my excuse the rest of the time? Well, regular readers know, I have different excuses on different days. However, my purpose today is not to muddle around with excuses but to make a short, reasonably entertaining post and get back to enjoying my Friday.

Sons of bitchin’ graboids! Pardon my french.

This may be worthy of Non-Sequitur Thursday, but we can’t always have these things exactly when we would like to. I went into Downloads on our laptop, looking for something to pep up my post a little. I could not see what this was a picture of, so I inserted it in the post, thinking I could always delete it if I didn’t like it. But how could I delete a scene from Tremors, one of our favorite movies! We never saw any of the sequels nor yet the television show. I felt they might taint my memory of the beloved original.

When in doubt, there is always Nosferatu.

I recently found this picture of one of my all-time favorite guys. I shared it on Facebook, just because, and now I share it with you, for a similar reason.

I would SO buy this book if I ever found it!

For the sake of using three pictures (it’s kind of a thing with me), I include a beautiful pulp fiction paperback cover. Now that I am looking at it, I see it is a novelization of a movie. Interesting. I would still buy the book, even though I do not care for novelizations. I have a minor collection of pulp fiction paperbacks which I purchased purely because I find the covers so delicious.

So this is my Friday Lame Post for the week. It entertained me to write it. I hope at least some of my readers are likewise entertained.

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Where’s My Head At?

Posted on June 23, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

OK, so I had three real Mohawk Valley posts this week. You didn’t think that was going to continue, did you? I didn’t. Anyways, today I’m tired and hungry and haven’t gotten all my stuff done yet (not whining, just giving you the picture). I just went through a couple of pages on Facebook looking for fun pictures I could share. The pictures may seem unrelated and my commentary disjointed, but, hey, it’s Non-Sequitur Thursday. Just go with it!

I went first to a page I recently Liked (actually, more than Like, I LOVE) B-Movie Mania. While scrolling down, seeing all kinds of cool stuff, I noticed the poster to one a great cheesy movie I saw years before I ever wrote about them or even blogged about anything, The Thing with Two Heads.

I always thought it should be called The Guy with Two Heads.

If I ever come across that movie in cable or find it on DVD, I’ll write a blog post about it. It’s fun!

In my search for more fun pictures, I discovered a new (to me) Facebook page called the Trash Cinema Collective. Ooh, do they have a lot of fun stuff! Where to begin?

It’s one of those movie posters that looks like it could be the cover to a pulp fiction paperback from the ’50’s.

Ah, if only I had see this movie when I was young and straitlaced. I might have gotten some tips on how to be more popular with the boys.

Another instruction manual from which I may have benefited.

I finish with an actual pulp fiction paperback cover. I once had a catalog of a company that sold post cards of these covers. I sent away for some and eventually sent them all to folks who appreciated them. How I wish I still had the catalog and could order more! Hey, I wonder if they are online? Is everybody online? Once again, I show my internet ignorance.

On the brighter side, I see that I am over 300 words. I call that respectable for a Non-Sequitur Thursday.

Mohawk Valley Girl