Sunday, 20 December 2020

"This crocodile has lost its Croc!"

I despair of this bloody "new improved" Blogger system. Having steadfastly and regularly reported it as a fault, the "Reading List" feed is still bollocksed-up - make one small retrospective tweak to a previously published post [in today's case my "250th birthday wishes to Beethoven" one from last Wednesday], and boom! It's at the top of the list, as if it were a new post. I have no idea where these error reports actually go when one sends them, but it would appear no-one treats them with any sort of urgency, otherwise this might have been fixed months ago...

Sigh. Rant (#754 in a series) over.

Let's escape for a moment with a long-overdue visit to the faboo "Tired Old Queen at the Movies" Mr Steve Hayes, as he gives us his inimitable overview of one of our favourite films here at Dolores Delargo Towers [which will more than likely turn up in the TV schedules over the Festering Season, as it usually does]...

Such a joy...

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  1. The whole reading list and time stamp thing is so weird... I gave up too. I know I'm missing fellow bloggers post all over the place. I am now just clicking on each blog to see if their have been new post on blogs I read. I also noticed if a schedule a post, boom, it's on others blog rolls. But if a do a post live and hit Publish, it's been taking up to two hours to hit others blog rolls. Very strange

    But I adore Death on the Nile...been an age since I've seen it.

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    1. It's a good job we have the patience of the saints, dear. That, and gin.

      Death On The Nile and Evil Under The Sun are two camp extravaganzas I never tire of watching! Apart from the murders, they epitomise a certain style and time of which I would love to have been part... Jx

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    2. Me too dear...me too! I always saw a lot of myself in Sylvia Miles's Myra Gardener.

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    3. Needless to say, I always saw myself more as Salome Otterbourne. Jx

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  2. My poor blog is a ghost of it's former self. I can do nothing with it. My 'follow' list has disappeared, all the gadgets and widgets won't gadge or widge, and it's just sorry as old pants. Stopping by from Ms. Scarlets place, and happy to see one of my favorite movies on review here. Camp as tits and every scene an absolute gem!

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    1. Sorry to hear about your poor old knickers, sorry, blog. Hope you can bash some sense into it - or start another, as Ms Scarlet has (several times)!

      Death on the Nile is a joy - as is Steve Hayes, reviewing it. Jx

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    2. Ahem. I am here. I would recommend WordPress, but I can't as it is just as tits-up as Blogger. It's infuriating.
      Good Afternoon Ms Stevie-Paul!
      Sx

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    3. I fear Wordpress would be a "step too far"... Jx

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  3. Wordpress is not much better. Well, some people seem to get by, but I had hell's own trouble doing images and(my day requiring me to deal with actual, real-time trauma)I just posted links. Jesuseffingbuggery! I loved the old blog days...

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    1. I don't know why these geeks-in-charge persist in making everything so bloody difficult for us, just so people can look at our blogs on their tiny-screen phones... Jx

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  4. TCM is hauling out every tired Christmas movie imaginable. The worst of the lot is Holiday Affair. Robert Mitchum plays Mitchum. But the kid in the movie is horrible. At the end you are hoping that Janet Leigh comes to her senses and marries Wendell Corey.

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    1. Sounds atrocious! I was never keen on either Janet Leigh nor Robert Mitchum. Never saw the film, but that evil-looking kid (Gordon Gebert) ended up starring in Christian "youth scare" films...

      If you're looking for a selection of so-bad-they're-good vintage B-movies, however, I can highly recommend Bitterness Personified blog (over in my sidebar under "Adored"). Jx

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