A bird of impressive scale… SHiNiXiA

MONSTER

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Tucson police officer fired after fatally shooting a 61-year-old in a mobility scooter nine times

The case is now under investigation by the Pima County Attorney’s Office.

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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite: Directed by Noel M. Smith. With Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley. Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

New actors!

Jane Wyman as Torchy

Allen Jenkins as McBride

There’s another series of bank robberies, all by a bandit named “Denver Eddie”, and this time with no cave men to try to save the day. Torchy’s busy reporting on the entire situation and as she’s speeding from site to site, she gets pulled over and tries to use the “don’t you know who I am?!” card on a cop, but unlike the last time she tried this trick, it doesn’t go well for her. She’s arrested when it turns out she forgot her purse at the last reporting site, so she’s off to court to be tried and sentenced to jail for speeding, driving without a license, and about 5 other charges that the officer threw on for good measure. While she’ waiting to talk to the judge, a beautiful blonde lady is sentenced to 9 months in jail for shoplifting some unmentionables. Torchy doesn’t seem to be paying too much attention to that though and finally gets her time with the judge, who gives her Skipper a call and she’s released from custody.

When she’s back at her office explaining why she was pinched, she’s shown a picture of the robber, but he’s with a woman that she recognizes from her time in court. She concocts a plan to get back into prison to find the lady and buddy up with her to find out more about the robber. instead of just getting her buddies in the police dept to throw her in jail, she goes around town breaking fire alarms, sending the FD on at least eleven false calls. She finally gets caught by the police and FD and is sentenced to a year in jail!

She eventually gets her gal pal, and they make a break from the prison with the intention of meeting up with the robber, after a airplane flight and train ride later, they’re on the opposite coast and McBride and Gahagan are in hot pursuit, but don’t want to give the local fuzz any indication of what they’re up to, so they’re masquerading as a wrestler and his manager. Due to this they get roped into a wrestling match, all while Torchy and her gal pal finally meeting up with Denver Eddie, who’s then convinced to go watch a wrasslin’ event. It all ends with Gahagan being thrown out of the ring and onto our villains, and the heroes get their man.

Jane Wyman is definitely no Glenda Farrell, but by the end of the film I didn’t care, she did a great job as Torchy Blane and firmly believe she should have been given the role for a few more movies. Allen Jankins as McBride though, I didn’t like at all, he didn’t have the same gravitas as Barton MacLane, and seemed to physically be a smaller guy, so didn’t have the same sense of physicality

It’s a shame we never get to see Torchy and McBride actually get married, nearly ever movie ended with them going to get it done, but we never get that final payoff. Here we are, nearly 100 years after the series started, maybe it’s time we get to see those wedding bells?

Who am I kidding, I know any movie that would say it’s going to do that is really going to be a movie about a murderous gang that only Torchy Blane can put behind bars.

And I’d love to see it.

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Weed Mandala

1984 Camaro Berlinetta

Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of There’s No Business Like Show Business 1954

MOVIE

Model Train Plays Music – Guinness World Records

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1960s motor oil disposal.

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Green Lantern Sebastián Píriz

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor: Directed by Ray McCarey. With Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan. Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

The mob has taken over city hall, and the local police are next, but Torchy Blane is one the case! She has an “illegally installed dictaphone” in the mayor’s office and she’s getting scoops like you wouldn’t believe. Unfortunately the mobsters figure it out and the games up for Torchy! She gets away by the skin of her teeth, just to get wrapped up in the shenanigans of trying to get the mayor recalled, get a new guy elected legally, all while contending with the mob shaking down the newspaper that she works for, not directly, but by going after the advertisers that pay the bills. There’s a murder by injection and Torchy is next, but McBride plays a prank on her, narrowly saving her goose. That prank? Putting her name on the recall election ballots to have her run as mayor!

This is Glenda Farrell’s final outting as Torchy and it’s a great one. They try one other actress in the Torchy role, but I’m assuming the studio just didn’t think it would work, so this is the penultimate movie in which we’ll see the character. It’s a shame that Glenda got pigeon holed into the “fast talking reporter” role for so long, but from what her IMDB page says, she had plenty of other opportunities to expand her career. I’m going to start buying her other films as I find them, when I can find them cheap!

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BIRD

Monica Bellucci by Helmut Newton for Blumarine, 1993

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Capitalism is so inclusive

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Album cover concept art

SHOE

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Winking

Spider-Man by MsBriCosplay

Dr. Biden’s Christmas Decorations

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown: Directed by William Beaudine. With Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Henry O’Neill. Torchy Blane has to solve a blackmail case.

I went in ready for some racist content, and while there’s a couple slightly problematic scenes with accents, there’s really nothing to complain about in terms of overt stupid racist content in “Torchy Blane In Chinatown”. That might be because she never really “goes” to Chinatown, it more or less comes to her in a series of threats to men, most of whom are dead by midnight. The movie opens with the most bombastic opening music of any of the other Torchy films, and goes on to have one of the least ‘Torchy’ adventure yet, with the reporter acting more as background for a McBride mystery. In fact, I think this is the first story with them in which McBride does all the proper police work, gets the right suspects, and is the hero at the end of the day.

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THOMAS EDISON

OUCH

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Origami Yoda (Fumiaka Kawahata)

Depression!

BREAKING: Stacey Abrams is running for Georgia governor in 2022

Stacey Abrams launched a campaign for Georgia governor Wednesday with a pledge to fight for economic equality and expand health care access, setting up a potential rematch against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in one of the nation’s most competitive political battlegrounds.

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Brian started it all!!

Star Trek Book Deals For December, 2021

This month’s ebook deals have landed with 10 books on sale for 0.99 each, books that have never been on sale are in bold:

This month’s sale is the entirety of the “Vanguard” series that was largely written by David Mack, who coincidentally wrote the third book in the “Coda” series that was released just yesterday.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: I, Q
Star Trek: Vanguard: Declassified
Star Trek: Vanguard: Harbinger
Star Trek: Vanguard: In Tempest’s Wake
Star Trek: Vanguard: Open Secrets
Star Trek: Vanguard: Precipice
Star Trek: Vanguard: Reap the Whirlwind
Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven
Star Trek: Vanguard: Summon The Thunder
Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come

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