Rudy Ray Moore might not have reinvented cinema, but he is a pioneer when it comes to comedy. Moore peppered his bits with enough four-letter words and sexual innuendo (and not so innuendo) to make Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx blink. He found great success doing comedy party albums, and he also single-handedly shaped what would become hip-hop music, by performing rap before Grand Master Flash and The Sugar Hill Gang even bought a Dr. Seuss book. Moore’s stand-up creation Dolemite, was quickly turned into a film character (and later an icon of “blaxpoitation” films), even though Dolemite more closely resembles the style of Bruce Lee films. Funded by Moore out of his own pocket (and helped by sales of his album Eat Out More Often), Dolemite’s high-flying karate heroics, little-man-versus-big-man storylines, and bad dubbing work on many different levels, although none very high-brow.
Day: November 10, 2006
Running of the Jerseyians
A bull was loose on the streets of Newark, New Jersey on November 3. Sources say the bull was finally apprehended after growing weak from lack of oxygen.
Only the strong really do survive in Jersey.
You are what you eat
Open for sale:
One volcanic lot. Perfect fix me up as a starter evil villain secret lair. Act now and we’ll throw in a free gas mask for breathing purposes!
Giving comfort to the enemy
We begin this morning with a shocking story out of Atlanta. Divers at the Georgia Aquarium, the country’s largest prison for fish, gave a whale shark a physical.
This blog keeps saying it, it’s either them or us. Those who aid the enemy in the War on Animals are betraying their cause.