Review Tuesday: “Belladonna of Sadness” Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973

  

 

Belladonna of Sadness

Directed by Eiichi Yamamoto

1973 

One woman's psychedelic journey into history.

I was discussing animation styles with a friend recently and she recommended Belladonna of Sadness. 

 

On the night that Jeanne and Jean got married, she is raped by a local noble. To get her revenge Jeanne makes a pact with the devil. 

 

Seems like a simple enough story, but toss in the typical 70s psychedelics and tons of sexual imagery and you get this thing. It's less than an hour and a half, but feels like it's at least 3-4 times longer. I really feel like I needed to be loaded up on some substance to have appreciated it more. As it was, I would call it okay. The animation is not bad considering the shoe-string budget it was made with. It just wasn't my cup of tea. I am not big on gratuitous weirdo animated pr0n or violence aimed at women.  

  

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

fey \FAY\, adjective:

1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Fey comes from Middle English feye, feie, from Old English fæge, "fated to die."

 

 

 

Douchebaguette

• A female douchebag. A woman who exhibits characteristics of a douchebag.

Just look at her pompous gait... what a douchebaguette!

History

• Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's second wife was beheaded (1536)
• New England's Dark Day: clouds, smoke and fog combined to obliterate the sun over the northeastern United States (1780)
• Tariff of 1828: was passed to protect US industry; it was denounced as a "tariff of abominations" by critics in the South (1828)
• Marilyn Monroe: crooned ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' to John F. Kennedy at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser (1962)

Birthdays 

• Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, most noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sarah Peale 1800 - Portrait painter
• Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president
• Bruce Bennett 1906 - Shot putter, actor

  
• George Auld 1919 - Musician
• Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist
• Jim Lehrer (James Charles "Jim" Lehrer) 1934 - Journalist, news anchor
• David Hartman 1935 - Television personality
• James Fox 1939 - Actor
• Nancy Kwan 1939 - Actress
• Stephen Young (Stephen Levy) 1939 - Actor
• Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger
• Mickey Newbury 1940 - Songwriter
• Nora Ephron 1941 - Diretor, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist
• Peter Mayhew 1944 - Actor ("Star Wars")
• Pete Townsend 1945 - Musician (The Who)
• David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist
• Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill 1949 - Musician (ZZ Top)
• Grace Jones 1952 - Singer, model, actress
• Joey Ramone 1951 - Musician (The Ramones)
• Phil Rudd 1954 - Musician (AC/DC)
• Steven Ford (Steven Meigs Ford) 1956 - Actor, son of U.S. President Gerald Ford
• Martyn Ware 1956 - Musician (The Human League)
• Iain Harvie (Del Amitri) 1962
• Jenny Berggren 1972 - Musician (Ace of Base)
• Kevin Garnett 1976 - Basketball player
• Eric Lloyd 1986 - Actor
  Anna Carina "Ophelia Overdose" Jahns 1989 - stunning fetish model
  
   

  

  

  
  

  

   

  

  

Look forward to Heather!

Heather Carolin

All In The Suit That You Wear

   

  

   

Hottie of the day!

  

 

  

Full set at

http://www.heathercarolin.com/

Monday, May 18, 2026

pernicious \pur-NISH-us\, adjective:

• Highly injurious; deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful.

Pernicious comes from Latin perniciosus, "destructive, ruinous," from pernicies, "destruction, disaster, ruin," from per-, "through, thoroughly" + nex, nec-, "violent death."

 

Bachelor Breakfast

• Eating breakfast (or any other meal really) while standing at your kitchen counter instead of sitting at your kitchen table.

My dad drives my mom crazy eating his bachelor breakfast of burnt toast.

cropduster

• buttocks. derived from cropdusting.

That girl has a fine cropduster.

badunkadunk

• a dick-bouncin, dynamic booty, that defies the laws of physics and reminds men why we wanna be dogs or an urban term used to define approval of the voluptuous curvature of a feminie rump.

We snapped our necks 'round, lost the beat of the funk, and laid our eyes upon Maryjane's beautiful badunkadunk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

History 

• Montreal: the French founded the Quebec city as Ville Marie de Montréal (1642)
• Napoleon Bonaparte: crowned himself emperor (1804)
• Plessy v. Ferguson: the concept of separate but equal racial segregation in public places was affirmed by the US Supreme Court (1896)
• Mount St. Helens eruption: Mount St. Helens, a stratovolcanic peak in Washington State, erupted, shooting a plume of gases 63,000 feet high and killing more than 50 people (1980)
• Les Misérables: closed after 16 years on Broadway (2003)
  Chris Cornell of Soundgarden committed suicide (2017)

Birthdays

• Frank Capra 1897
• Meredith Wilson 1902
• Big Joe Turner 1911
• Perry Como 1912
• Pierre Balmain 1914
• Margot Fonteyn 1919
• Dame Margot Fonteyn 1919
• Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyla) 1920
• Bill Macy 1922
• Kay Winding 1922
• Marquita Rivera 1922
• Jack Whitaker 1924
• Pernell Roberts 1930 - Actor ("Bonanza," "Trapper John, M.D.")
• Robert Morse 1931 - Actor ("Mad Men," "How to Succeed in Business ...")
• Dwayne Hickman 1934
• Brooks Robinson 1937 - Baseball player
• Albert Hammond 1942
• Rodney Dillard 1942 - Musician (The Dillards)
• Reggie Jackson 1946 - Baseball player
• Joe Bonsall 1948 - Musician (The Oak Ridge Boys)
• Dave Atkins 1949
• Candice Azzara 1949
• Rick Wakeman 1949 - Musician (Yes)
• Rodney Milburn, Jr. 1950
• James Stephens 1951
• George Strait 1952 - Country musician
• Butch Tavares 1953 - Musician (Tavares)
• Wreckless Eric 1954
• Chow Yun-Fat 1955 - Actor
• Michael Cretu 1957 - Musician (Enigma)
• Toyah Wilcox 1958
• Page Hamilton 1960
• Jari Kurri 1960 - Hockey player
• Yannick Noah 1960 - Tennis player
• Martika 1969 - Singer
• Tina Fey 1970 - Actress, comedian ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")
• Special Ed 1974
• Darryl Allen 1980 - Musician (Mista)
• Spencer Breslin 1992 - Actor

  

 

  

Thought of the day: Saul Alinsky

from my email:

IT ALL BECOMES CRYSTAL CLEAR 

Saul Alinsky . . .

Born: January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois

Died: June 12, 1972

Education: University of Chicago, Ph.B. 1930, University of Chicago Graduate School, criminology, 1930–

1932.

Occupation: Community organizer, writer, political activist

Notable works: Reveille for Radicals (1946); Rules for Radicals (1971)

Saul David Alinsky was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals. From that book here are Saul's thoughts on how to create a social state:

There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a socialist state. The first is the most important.

1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.

4) Gun Control – Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)

6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Any of this sound familiar?

Sunday, May 17, 2026

exigency \EK-suh-jun-see; ig-ZIJ-un-see\, noun:

1. The quality or state of requiring immediate aid or action; urgency.
2. A case demanding immediate action or remedy; a pressing or urgent situation.
3. That which is demanded or required in a particular situation -- usually used in the plural.

Exigency comes from Medieval Latin exigentia, from the present participle of Latin exigere, to drive out, to force out, to exact, to demand, from ex-, out of + agere, to drive. The adjective form is exigent.

pretext

• Verb, portmanteau - To pretend to text someone or reply to someone's text message to avoid awkward situations. This happens most often when talking to someone you don't really know or when you don't want to look weird while waiting for the bus.

My crush, Addie, and I have run out of things to talk about so I will pretext to avoid any awkward silences.

 

History

• Buttonwood Agreement: 24 prominent brokers created the foundation of the NYSE (1792)
• Kentucky Derby: horse race was run for the first time; Aristides won (1875)
• Brown v. Board of Education: the US Supreme Court unanimously banned segregation (1954)
• Watergate: the US Senate began hearings about the Nixon-era scandal (1973)
• Laurent Kabila: rebel leader declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), deposing Mobutu (1997)
• wedding vows: Massachusetts became the first US state to legally allow same-sex marriages (2004)

Birthdays

• Sandro Botticelli 1444 
• Edward Jenner 1749
• Joseph Norman Lockyer 1836
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 1900
• James Bell 1903
• Carl McIntire 1906
• Maureen O'Sullivan 1911
• Archibold Cox 1912
• Stewart Alsop 1914
• Carl Lipscombe 1915
• Brigit Nilsson 1918
• Bob Merrill 1921
• Kanid Burruss 1921 - Musician (Xscape)
• Dix Hixson 1924
• Jackie McLean 1932
• Dennis Hopper 1936 - Actor
• Pervis Jackson 1938 - Musician (The Spinners)
• Taj Mahal 1942 - Singer
• Jesse Winchester 1944
• Bill Bruford 1948 - Musician (Yes, King Crimson)
• Kathleen Sullivan 1953 - Television personality
• Bill Paxton 1955 - Actor
• Bob Saget 1956 - Actor, comedian ("Full House")
• Sugar Ray Leonard 1956 - Boxer
• Audie Desbrow 1957 - Musician (Great White)
• Paul Di'Anno 1958 - Musician (Iron Maiden)
• Jim Nantz 1959 - Sports announcer
• Enya 1961 - Musician
• Craig Ferguson 1962 - Television host ("The Late Late Show")
• Page McConnell 1963 - Musician (Phish)
• O'Dell 1965 - Musician (Mint Condition)
• Trent Reznor 1965 - Musician (Nine Inch Nails)
• Hill Harper 1966 - Actor ("CSI: NY")
• Thom Filicia 1969 - Television personality ("Queer Eye For the Straight Guy")
• Darnell Van Rensalier (Shai) 1970
• Jordan Knight 1970 - Singer (New Kids on the Block)
• Sendhil Ramamurthy 1974 - Actor ("Heroes")
• Matt Cassel 1982 - Football player
• Tahj Mowry 1986
• Nikki Reed 1988 - Actress