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Fat Freddy wrote:

Thanx MG. I'm having fun doing those "A Brief history of so-and-so" articles on different bands.

The one I did on Accept got a thumbs-up from Peter Baltes himself on their Facebook page the other day. Groovy!

Awesome!!!!!!!

Last night's odious SyFy Channel movie becomes today's Hub entry...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/It-Came-From-the-Bargain-Bin-WITCHSLAYER-GRETL-2012

Yikes, FF! Thanks for throwing yourself on the grenade for the rest of us, that movie sounds horrible! Who comes up with crap like that, anyway?

bassman wrote:

Yikes, FF! Thanks for throwing yourself on the grenade for the rest of us, that movie sounds horrible! Who comes up with crap like that, anyway?

Canadian filmmakers and people who write fairy-tale fan fiction, I guess.

Fat Freddy wrote:

bassman wrote:

Yikes, FF! Thanks for throwing yourself on the grenade for the rest of us, that movie sounds horrible! Who comes up with crap like that, anyway?

Canadian filmmakers and people who write fairy-tale fan fiction, I guess.

Well, whoever came up with that plotline needs some serious mental help! The least they could have done was make sure the lovely Ms. Doherty was unclothed for the entire film so it wouldn't be quite so painful to watch.

bassman wrote:

Well, whoever came up with that plotline needs some serious mental help! The least they could have done was make sure the lovely Ms. Doherty was unclothed for the entire film so it wouldn't be quite so painful to watch.

Shannen Doherty was the main reason I stayed tuned ... but sadly, it would appear that time is startin' to catch up with her...



Shannen, I still love ya babe, but...yikes!!

She's just getting older, happens to all of us.

Fat Freddy wrote:

bassman wrote:

Well, whoever came up with that plotline needs some serious mental help! The least they could have done was make sure the lovely Ms. Doherty was unclothed for the entire film so it wouldn't be quite so painful to watch.

Shannen Doherty was the main reason I stayed tuned ... but sadly, it would appear that time is startin' to catch up with her...



Shannen, I still love ya babe, but...yikes!!

Never mind, keep your clothes on.

anyone can look bad, geez. lighting, make up, setting, etc. Shannen still looks very good, especially for an almost 41 year old woman.

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong... I'd still leave my wife for her.

But whoever did her makeup in that Witch movie did her absolutely no favors.

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If you watch the film you'll quickly realize that none of these titles are technically accurate anyway, so they might as well have titled it "Hansel and Gretl 2: Electric Boogaloo."

"Electric Boogaloo" refrences always elicit a laugh outta me. Nice job.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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If you watch the film you'll quickly realize that none of these titles are technically accurate anyway, so they might as well have titled it "Hansel and Gretl 2: Electric Boogaloo."

"Electric Boogaloo" refrences always elicit a laugh outta me. Nice job.

Thanx. You just can't go wrong with an Electric Boogaloo.

The news of a new Dokken album in the pipeline prompted another one of my "A Brief History of So-And-So" entries...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/DOKKEN-Classic-LA-Rockers-to-Return-With-Broken-Bones

Nice overview. U knows ur stuff.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Nice overview. U knows ur stuff.

Thanx man!

I just got an e-mail from HubPages informing me that my deranged ramblings have achieved 10,000 page views thus far! A large part of that is due to support from y'all, so thanks a bunch and I hope you keep reading!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

I just got an e-mail from HubPages informing me that my deranged ramblings have achieved 10,000 page views thus far! A large part of that is due to support from y'all, so thanks a bunch and I hope you keep reading!!

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Kick ass!!!!!!!

Thanx guys... it's a nice ego stroke (it's always good to know that other people besides me and my immediate family are reading my babbling, hahaha) but I'm still totally small potatoes compared to others on that site. There are peeps there with page views in the hundreds of thousands. Of course, I don't have eighteen hours a day to post links to my crap all over the internet like some of those people must do (I mainly link from Facebook, this forum, and a couple of others that I frequent) nor do I tend to write about topics that pull in high amounts of search engine traffic (but hey, if anybody ever does a random Google search for the movie "Damnation Alley," BAM, there I am!)... but I'm havin' fun with it and besides, the e-zine I used to write for has closed up shop so I needed a new outlet... I think this'll do.

Thanks again y'all and if you dig my scribbles, by all means, feel free to post the links on your FB page, on other forums, forward 'em via e-mail to anyone you think might enjoy 'em... yes, I'm totally pimping myself for page views, I ain't proud. I'll take'em however I get'em. Here's to the next 10,000!!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

Thanx guys... it's a nice ego stroke (it's always good to know that other people besides me and my immediate family are reading my babbling, hahaha) but I'm still totally small potatoes compared to others on that site. There are peeps there with page views in the hundreds of thousands. Of course, I don't have eighteen hours a day to post links to my crap all over the internet like some of those people must do (I mainly link from Facebook, this forum, and a couple of others that I frequent) nor do I tend to write about topics that pull in high amounts of search engine traffic (but hey, if anybody ever does a random Google search for the movie "Damnation Alley," BAM, there I am!)... but I'm havin' fun with it and besides, the e-zine I used to write for has closed up shop so I needed a new outlet... I think this'll do.

Thanks again y'all and if you dig my scribbles, feel free to post the links on your FB page, on other forums, forward 'em via e-mail to anyone you think might enjoy 'em... yes, I'm totally pimping myself for page views, I ain't proud. I'll take'em however I get'em. Here's to the next 10,000!!!

You need to keep it up, it may someday translate into a paid writing gig! Then you can quit your job \m/

thejokeriv wrote:

You need to keep it up, it may someday translate into a paid writing gig! Then you can quit your job \m/

That's the dream, but at the rate I'm going I'll be 100 years old before I see a nickel off of my writings for this site, anyway.

Another Simpsons Geek entry... this time it's my 20 favorite "supporting" characters, i.e. those who are not members of the immediate Simpson family...

http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Top-20-My-Favorite-Simpsons-Background-Characters

Very cool read. My favorite was Troy McClure (RIP Phil Hartman). Another favorite movie of his for me was "The Revenge Of Abe Lincoln".

Yep, Troy McClure was a truly special part of the early Simpsons magic. His gag never got old. I can still watch his spots over and over and over, and still when the lights dim and the classroom projector is turned on I start chuckling before he even says his famous opening line.

Thanx guys. Yeah, I still miss Phil/Troy McClure.

I read a book a while back about "Saturday Night Live" that gave a lot of detail about Phil Hartman's death and how it affected "SNL" (even though he had left the show by that time) as well as "The Simpsons" and "Newsradio."

It said that during "Newsradio" tapings he'd sometimes entertain the studio audience during breaks by doing Troy McClure riffs, and that there was talk between him and some of the "Simpsons" writers about doing a full length, live-action Troy McClure movie. Imagine how much fun that could've been!!!