Monday morning with Col. Decker

by Didact | May 3, 2021 | Mondays | 1 comment

Ugh. Monday. What a pain in the ass.

It’s not so bad for me – we have a public holiday over here, so I can take a bit of a breather and get some work done. But it’s still a pretty awful day in general.

Fortunately, the Great Mondaydact Browser Smasher is here to make it all better. And, at the suggestion of our good friend, The Male Brain, we will dedicate this Monday to one Lance Legault. Fans of The A-Team (like, well, me) will recognise the name, because he’s the guy who played Colonel Roderick Decker in the show, and turned out to be one of the more effective “baddies” in what was, and remains, one of the manliest man shows ever made.

Here’s his biography, as supplied by Dawn Pine:

William Lance LeGault was born on May 2 1935. of French-Canadian-Austro-Hungarian descent. The guy had a tough life. His father died when he was 4, so he lived in an orphanage till his mother remarried. He started working at the age of 11 on the railroad, and was fired after 2 years because they discovered he was not yet 18 years old. Talk about getting by.
That did not stop him from finishing high school at the age of 20. A star quarterback at Chillicothe High School, he was gifted with athleticism and a drive to succeed. And succeed he did in music and in his craft as an actor.
Lance performed in the Louisiana Hayride and was a hit. His first break in acting came while on the set as an extra in the John Wayne film, The Horse Soldiers, in 1959. John Wayne was so pleased with Lance and his ability to be a real cowboy, he told Lance he should head out to California.
When the Duke tells you something – you listen.
He found a job performing blues at a club called the Crossbow. The “King of Rock and Roll”, Elvis Presley, came to visit him along with Tuesday Weld. Lance played many shows with Elvis and was his double in several movies including “Kissing Cousins”, “Viva Las Vegas”, “Girls! Girls! Girls!,” and “Roustabout” to name a few.
He and Elvis also became close friends. Talk about getting kudos for riding with the best.
If that wasn’t enough, the guy also served his country – he also serviced in the Naval air reserve for 4 years.
Music and films were not enough – so he went on to the theatre – In 1974 he played Othello in the Patrick McGoohan-directed musical Shakespeare adaptation “Catch My Soul” at the Prince of Wales theatre in London where he won a critics award for Best Actor. Yes, I know it is not actual Shakespeare, but it still counts.
Then came TV, where we will always remember him from. During the 1970s Lance guest starred on a variety of TV shows, including “Gunsmoke,” “Black Sheep Squadron” and “The Rockford Files,” and a recurring role on the original “Battlestar Galactica” as Maga, but in 78′ he landed the role of Vince in COMA with Michael Douglas. The Incredible Hulk, Captain America followed COMA into the early 80’s.Making a name for himself as a tough SOB playing Colonel Glass in the hit movie “Stripes” starring John Candy, and Bill Murray he continued the image he was known for.
That image is probably why he landed the most famous role of Colonel Roderick Decker in The hit series “The A-TEAM”. Always trying to either out maneuver Hannibal Smith (and always eventually failing), or using brute force (which usually did more damage than good).
Lance was devoted to his family who supported and loved him. He met and married his wife of 28 years Teresa in Beverly Hills and they had 4 children together.

Dawn Pine also provided some videos of the man, and we’ve got some pics and memes for you down below:

This is what he really sounded like when singing – terrific voice:

All in all, he was a manly addition to a manly cast for a manly, legendary, hilariously awesomely stupidly good show.

His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, continues his WINNING!!! ways even in spite of “losing” an election that he PLAINLY won against the Fake President:

He doesn’t need a formal title, or even Twitter or Facebook.
Former President Donald Trump’s message is getting out just fine without those forms of communication. Trump is continuing to rack up wins inside his party — sometimes without even extending much effort in the battles.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is again being forced to defend her position in House leadership, this time with fewer voices inside the GOP coming out to back her. Cheney’s fist bump with President Joe Biden last week only adding a visual to efforts to bring another no-confidence vote this month on whether the highest-ranking congressional Republican to have supported Trump’s impeachment should still hold the No. 3 job in the House.
On Saturday in Texas, perhaps the most competitive special House election of 2021 landed the Trump-endorsed candidate in the top spot heading for a runoff. Perhaps more tellingly, the only anti-Trump candidate finished ninth in an all-party primary; he garnered barely 2,500 votes, or just more than 3%, and trailed four Republicans as well as four Democrats.
On the same day in Utah, the only Republican to vote twice to convict Trump, Sen. Mitt Romney, was greeted by a raucous round of jeers at his home-state party’s convention. Those boos will be remembered longer than the effort to censure him over his public breaks with Trump, which failed narrowly.
Romney was trying to tell his fellow Republicans about his policy differences with Biden when the boos forced him to pause.
“Aren’t you embarrassed?” he asked the crowd.
That didn’t require an answer. Nearly four months after Jan. 6, pro-Trump forces are energized about being just that — with ramifications for Biden’s governing agenda, and of course for the future of the Republican Party.

Nationalism IS the future of the Republicuck Party. If it wants to win, it needs to focus on the interests of White voters and the American nation, at the expense of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians – who are NOT interested in being part of America, in general.

Blacks have plainly checked out of America proper already.

Hispanics have their own vision of America that has nothing to do with the limited-government ideals that inspired its creation.

Asians have major racial hangups of their own to worry about, and are NOT limited-government, leave-me-the-Hell-alone types to begin with.

None of this means that Whites must needlessly antagonise other races. It just means that the Republicans need to stop trying to please everyone and focus on making life better for Whites in America.

Trump did that. He wasted a lot of time on boosting and pleasing other races, sure. But his primary job was to take care of his White base. Which he did – just not very effectively, in all honesty.

Imagine what would happen with a Republican who really, actually, truly stopped the Dirt World Invasion, deported millions of illegals, stomped ruthlessly on Black violence in the cities, and crushed the Left through military means if necessary. THAT Republican would be unstoppable.

#BasedTucker is based:

Mark Dice breaks down the latest rond of pop-culture stupidity concerning masks and vaccines:

Dave from Blue Collar Logic has a never-before-seen episode to air for us:

And Jason points out that race-baiting Dindus are thriving these days, which means that race relations will continue to deteriorate:

Bill Whittle mocks the Wokies:

The Male Brain has some more good stuff for us this week. We start with a John Stossel classic:

This next one from Prager U is an interesting case of a man who is an ALMOST-Alpha, Kevin Sorbo:

I watched that video before Dawn Pine sent it to me, and I concur with his opinion that there was always something kind of “wrong” with his characters, whether in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, or in Andromeda. And, while Sorbo is plainly a devout Christian and family man, he is also far too much of a cuckservative for his own good. He still falls for the equalitarian lies and stupid civnattery of cuckservatism, which he will have to abandon at some point if he actually wants to make a difference.

Ryan George is next up:

Honest Trailers tries, and fails, to mock John Wick Chapters 2 & 3:

Look, it’s REALLY simple. The John Wick films are all about watching an incredibly fit and tough Keanu Reeves killing INSANE numbers of people with gun-fu and jiu-jitsu – in which, by the way, apparently he is actually highly skilled. As long as he and the directors deliver intelligent, high-octane action sequences, we’re all happy, because Keanu is AWESOME.

Some more good stuff from JP Sears:

And Wisecrack explains why Disney keeps screwing us all over with copyright stupidity:

Paul Ramsey warns that the Feds have now begun to criminalise people simply for Badthink, starting with Nick Fuentes of the Groypers:

Apparently Rose McGowan isn’t quite as crazy as her hair and political views make her out to be, because she appears to have seen the light at some point and has now wised up a bit:

The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey explains the basics of heart failure:

Lord Razor of the Fist Clan provides some rather compelling reasoning for a state-level electoral college:

Al Fadi from CIRA International held a real streaming marathon last week, to help his fellow Arabs understand the problems with their annual exercise in extremely unhealthy eating and fasting. He had a lot of guests on to explain the background of, and problems with, Ramadan. We’ve got a few of those videos here. Let’s start with The Dizzle explaining why Ramadan should actually be called the month of FEASTING, not fasting:

Next, Dr. Jay Smith from Pfander Films examines the past year in Christian polemics against Islam, and explains where we go from here – unfortunately the sound quality is quite shite, at least initially, but it improves a bit toward the end:

Separately, Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined explains that equality of outcomes isn’t just a dumb idea, it’s an impossible one:

Colin from Islam Critiqued comprehensively dismantles a particularly egregiously stupid line of Izzlamic “reasoning” with respect to the message of His Hugeness:

China Uncensored looks at the way that the CCP seeks to manipulate India and the USA:

America Uncovered examines the issue of gun control in the USA:

Let’s get this straight: America DOES NOT have a gun violence problem. America actually has a Black males with guns problem. Go look up the relevant crime statistics, they are highly revealing. If you remove the, quite astonishing, rates of Black violence from the data, you will quickly find that White lawful gun owners, who are overwhelmingly suburban or rural, are astonishingly NON-violent, especially considering how many guns they own.

It is also not a coincidence that the cities with the tightest gun control laws, also have the highest numbers of Blacks, and ALSO happen to be the most violent places in the country, AND have been Daemoncrat-ruled for decades.

Jared Taylor from American Renaissance points out that Black people really do think quite differently from Whites, even in the face of very obvious evidence:

Terrence Popp explains how midlife crises start and what to do about them:

Midnight’s Edge wonders how the terminally incompetent people ruining Warner Bros. under the AT&T umbrella will do now that they’ve completely ruled out the Snyderverse as a way of building on the runaway success of Zack Snyder’s Justice League:

Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock reports on the rumours swirling around Queen Karen Kennedy’s rather wobbly tenure at Lucasfilm:

Yes, I know – who cares? Lucasfilm is DONE, we all know that. But it’s nice to know that Queen Karen will, eventually, pay a real price for her incredible stupidity.

Gary from Nerdrotic is even more gleeful than you and me at the self-immolation of the Wokies:

The Drinker warns the MPAA to straighten up and fly right, or else it will continue to crash and burn:

Now, imagine you have to attack a fortress, and you need an army. But you don’t have one. What, exactly, are you going to do?

Well, if you are Saruman the White, you simply build an army of… DUCKS?!?!?:

If you’ve ever wondered what Willem Dafoe would look like as The Joker, wonder no longer:

You know what’s truly terrifying?

He wasn’t even trying to look or act psychotic in that clip.

Imagine if he REALLY tried. He would easily be THE most creepy and effective Joker EVER.

Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from Dawn Pine, and looks at how the Earth is basically a giant Dust-Buster:

As our planet orbits the sun, it swoops through clouds of extraterrestrial dust — and several thousand metric tons of that material actually reaches Earth’s surface every year, new research suggests.
During three summers in Antarctica over the past two decades, researchers collected more than 2,000 micrometeorites from three snow pits that they’d dug. Extrapolating from this meager sample to the rest of the world, tiny pebbles from space account for a whopping 5,200 metric tons of weight gain each year, researchers report in the April 15 Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Your long read of the week is also from The Male Brain – a classic from El Capitan about whether hoomans have any value in an AI-driven world:

But have you ever taken the time to think about a world without work? Have you wondered what humans would do with themselves 10 hours a day neither commuting nor laboring? Shoot, if the robots are producing everything, why even bother going to school? Why bother becoming literate? Why bother even learning to wipe your ass because the “ass wiping robot” will do it for you? Without labor or problems, from womb to tomb every second of human life would have to be occupied with some form of leisurely pursuits, hobbies, fun, eating, video games, and work-avoidance. And while that may sound “fun” even “utopian,” without labor, without professions, without the mandate to create the production that is required to support oneself and advance oneself, giving oneself value, humans would simply be left with mere hedonism and ultimately no real point or purpose in life.
You may not believe this at first, because a life of video games, unlimited sushi buffets, ice cream, and holodeck sex orgies with a score of redheaded Jennifer Anistons seems pretty hard to beat. But that is because you don’t understand novelty. This is exemplified in the Twilight Zone episode “A Nice Place to Visit” where a gangster thug dies and is presumably sent to heaven. All of his worldly desires are met. He never loses at the casino. He can rob banks with nobody stopping him. And scores of beautiful women surround him. Though “heavenly,” inevitably the novelty wears off. He tires of winning, tires of 100% success, tires of life being so easy and actually looks for a challenge. Simply something different in life. He is then informed by his host (who is in actuality, the Devil) that he cannot have anything different, but 100% success and material wealth forever into eternity. This flooding of the gangster’s after-life market with unlimited material goods, success, women, etc., ironically and tragically DESTROYS the novelty and thus value of ALL THINGS in the gangster’s afterlife, at which point he realizes he is in fact in hell.
This hell is the same prospect facing those of you yearning and desiring for a BGI, student loan bailouts, and an “unlimited economic utopia.” On paper Perfect AI and an army of slave robots may seem great. Until you realize it would relegate every human into a world of unlimited hedonism. A hedonism that would quickly lose its novelty, and thus value, and therefore take away any value, worth, purpose or point of human existence. Yes, you can have one more piece of sushi. Yes, you can have more sex and breed as much as you want. Yes, you can drive Ferraris like every one else. But without a purpose, without a profession, without a connection to the goods you produce from the labor you sacrifice, humans ultimately have no value in an AI world. You are merely “consumers” of materialism who produce nothing of value, nothing of creation, nothing of innovation. Matter of fact, the non-sentient robots and AI software have more value, purpose, and meaning than you as what do you do other than merely exist off of the AI system? In all honesty, most humans in a Perfect AI world might as well commit suicide, and leave the AI system for future, intrepid aliens to discover because most people would ultimately have no point or purpose in life. Besides, the boredom would ultimately drive most people to suicide anyway.
Alas, as we asymptotically approach this Perfect AI world, humans are going to have to find something that gives them value. And as increasing percentages of the economy have become automatic and streamlined, affording an increasing percent of the population an effective “Perfect AI World,” many of us already have. But as you’ll find out, most of these new “professions” are mere distractions with no actual production of value behind them. Merely masturbation for ultimately worthless humans to feel as if they’re producing something today. And as far as my economist eye can tell me, there are going to be five general “labor” classes in the future AI economy (though I speculated on three earlier).

Linkage is good for you:

C.J Hopkins at The Unz Review pillories the Branch Covidians for being the paranoid loonies that they truly are;
Robert Hampton notes that the Chauvin farce has turned ALL Whites into scapegoats on a national stage;
Islamisation sure is working out just fine and dandy for the Frogs, ain’t it? Especially when two homos get stabified, one to death and the other into critical condition, by a Syrian Muzzie who has no regrets at all;
The biggest aircraft in the world made a successful flight, and the damned thing is so enormous that it’s actually wider than a football field – and about as f***ed-up-looking as a football bat;
The Russians aren’t interested in playing nice with the Fake President, and it looks like the US Embassy in Moscow will now substantially scale back operations as a result of Biden’s idiocy;
Paul Craig Roberts notes that the Russians are NOT a “threat”, but we keep being told that they are, which is idiotic on its face – they are only a “threat” in the sense that THEY are free and much of the West is NOT;
Speaking of whom, the Fake President only just beat out the Wokies in ratings, but he’s still way below even the God-Emperor’s least-watched speech, which tells you a lot about how badly he’s not-running the country;
PommieBastardLande is not going to do away with those stupid face-diapers anytime soon – the New Normal there will involve ever more fear-mongering and scare tactics to keep the sheeple in line;
And that is in spite of the fact that the SCIENTISTS!!!!!, or at least some of the more sensible ones, keep telling us that the danger has passed;
Speaking of the Scamdemic, Steven Yates notes that Chile, once one of the freest and most dynamic countries in Latin America, has fallen for that stupidity hook, line, and sinker, and surrendered its freedoms in the process;
The vaccines do not stop you from getting the Kung Flu, contrary to how they are marketed to us – you can still get the bug and get sick, quite easily, in fact;
Thomas Dalton explains, in a long article, the steps necessary to confront the reality of secular Jewish Leftist control over much of the Globalist apparatus that threatens us – and, in fact, their own Tribe, though they won’t see it;
This story about a female parish reverend in the Church of England is a sobering lesson in hypocrisy, greed, evil, human stupidity, and the EXTREME dangers of letting women run organisations, especially churches, without male oversight;
Dan Wootton notes that Kate Middleton, the future Queen of the United Kingdom, has achieved what Harry and the Half-Blood Princess claim they want, and has done so without any of the fuss of Duchess Caringslut;
Bar and restaurant owners in PommieBastardLande are seriously peeved that they might have to pay higher wages to servers and waitresses, thanks to the Kung Flu sending thousands of immigrants home;
Floyd Mayweather wants to fight Logan Paul just to prove a point, and frankly I couldn’t care less, except that it would be nice to see the Paul brothers knocked down a few pegs;
The Belarussian fighter that I tagged as a lady of class and skill a while back just lost a controversial fight to an American in Singapore’s ONE Championship, even though she actually threw more strikes;

And some more from Dawn Pine:

It’s difficult not to laugh at liberal douchecanoe Robert De Niro’s marital strife, but you have to admit, his vampiric ex-wife’s attempts to bleed him dry are pretty horrid – he’ll work himself to death, either his or hers;
And speaking of divorces gone horribly wrong – you know shit’s gone really BORKED In a family when the son has to pay his mother over $100 MILLION in the most expensive divorce case in the history of PommieBastardLande;
A bunch of Krauts are freaking out over whether they got the real not-vaccine in Germany – in all honesty, given the nature of the vaccine and the Scamdemic, they’re probably better off without it;
Did you ever hear the one about the killer on death row who tried to appeal his sentence by… having his lawyers propose the FIRING SQUAD as an alternative to lethal injection? Dawn Pine and I say: shoot the bastard have done;
Students at Slutgers will now be provided with trigger warnings when reading Greek and Roman classics – can you IMAGINE what will happen when they read Shakespeare’s Othello, or Titus Andronicus?;
An intriguing piece here about the ancient and very wise King Solomon, who may well have been the ancient world’s equivalent of an Onassis – i.e. an insanely rich shipping magnate;
Exactly how dumb do you have to be to break into a Denny’s twice in order to get a second helping of eggs? I mean, seriously, just learn to cook at home already;
This story about the Wokies tanking as badly as the economy under the Fake President is particularly hilarious because of a brilliant embedded tweet from Ricky Gervais – check it out, he really lets them have it;
We’re going to have to explain to Natoinal Palestinian Radio, yet again, that GUN OWNERS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM behind mass shootings – the problem is actually young men growing up without fathers, or with very weak fathers;
You might think you live in Clown World, but you ain’t seen nothin’ until you see this story about how a police department ended up with a 4-foot Batman statue that it now cannot give back to its original owner, because insurance;
If you want a cheap, highly effective, simple, no-nonsense way to fight the Kung Flu without vaccines and mass hospitalisations, just start distributing Vitamin D around the world;
Some enterprising chap in Argentina bought Google’s local domain name for like $3, but sadly he probably won’t be able to keep it for very long;
PommieBastardLande appears to be hellbent on proving that it is no longer a free country, as the residents of a high-crime block of flats are finding out right now;
If you need a non-profit organisation to come in and solve your trash problems, you probably need to instil some civic sense in your people pretty urgently to tell them NOT TO THROW THE F***ING TRASH AROUND;
The people of Turkmenistan clearly love their alabai (Central Asian shepherd dog) breed very much – they’ve given it a statue and a national holiday;

The Neo-Tsar isn’t a populist. He doesn’t pretend to be. But he is, in fact, quite good at supporting the interests of his people (in general – there ARE exceptions). And he has a warning for populist politicians around the world:

He is right about this. There is a fine line between populism and nationalism. The latter is a Good Thing. It is GOOD to love one’s nation and one’s people. The former is not always good. It leads politicians to make some REALLY stupid promises that they cannot deliver – just look at Modi in India, for instance.

The benefit and advantage of the pretend democracy that Russia has, is that its leaders don’t really have to play that silly game. They just get on with making Russia strong, free, and frankly wonderful.

History lessons of the week, courtesy of The Male Brain:

As he put it:

TL;DW version:
Less rule of law – more crime.
Organised crime – universal.
People tend to get excited about crime.

Have you ever wondered what four Rolls Royce Merlin engines, powering an Avro Lancaster, sound like in fully restored glory? It is, in a word, AWESOME:

Sends chills down your spine, doesn’t it? That is some serious flying heavy metal, right there. It reminds of that classic BRUCE DICKINSON song, “Silver Wings” – which you can find down below.

Your Great Man of the Week is also from Dawn Pine, and it is none other than Sugar Ray Robinson:

Let’s watch Mint Blitz bork the HALO game engine for a bit:

Wazzocks gonna wazzock:

Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:

Comedy hour:

Pics, guns, girls, starting with some funny stuff from Dawn Pine, along with his captions:

Uh… yeah… no one remembers him like that…

And a few more from The Male Brain, concerning the Wokies:

Not Oscar-related, but still pretty funny

Onward – someone in the FSU sent me this one, and I nearly fell over laughing:

Yeah. I can FEEL the hatred.

And downward from there, really:

SERIOUSLY fake news.

You know how we make bad jokes about beating people like red-haired stepchildren?

She IS the red-headed stepchild.

I’m just waiting to see what happens when the Boys in Blue stop putting up with his bullshit.

Amen.

And you wonder why conservatives keep losing? The only way to win against someone who won’t leave you the hell alone is to smash his teeth in if he persists in trying to kill you.

BLADES AND BOLTERS OUT, BOYS – ALL HAIL THE GOD-EMPEROR!!!

That is absolutely true, by the way. Say it with me, boys – MASKS DO NOT F***ING WORK.

Headlines of the week indicate that the world is rapidly careening toward Ragnarok – which, contrary to what you might think, is not some sort of weird towel range from IKEA:

Your “Keeping It In the Family” moment of the week:

Your “Trojan Army” moment of the week:

Your “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!” moment of the week:

Your “I Have an Embarrassing Problem” moment of the week:

Your “F*** Lettuce” moment of the week:

STOP TRYING TO MAKE MEATLESS MEAT. IT’S F***ING STOOOOOOOOPID.

Your “Impale the Judge Alongside the Paedo” moment of the week:

The Babylon Bee is a satire website, and we all know that, but its headlines are actually MORE accurate than anything the whorenalists can come up with.

NO! NOT THE GERMANS!! ANYTHING BUT THE GERMANS!!!

I mean… it’s a rather good point…

SCHOOL’S OUT FOREVER! SCHOOL’S BEEN BLOWN TO PIECES!!! – oh, sorry, got a bit carried away there. I’ve seen him play live twice – opening for IRON MAIDEN, in fact. And yes, he’s AWESOME.

Hey, y’all remember that scene in The Two Towers where the Uruk-hai chopped an Ork to pieces and ate him?

Did that last night. It was hard work. Totally worth the effort.

Yeah, I’d fail that one too, actually. And I have two degrees in maths.

Yeah. I heard Sam Jackson’s voice too.

Your Dog of the Week is the English Foxhound:

English Foxhound dog breed information, pictures and facts ...

Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:

And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:

I used to live in Indonesia, and I’m telling you honestly – if one of these things comes for you, RUN THE F*** AWAY. They are genuinely very dangerous.

Right, everyone, quiet down now, let’s watch a righteous example of the mythical Gymbeasticus liftheavyshitus doing his thing:

Iron athletes truly ARE demi-gods among mere men. And the Russians have a habit of breeding these supermen – them bastards is STRONG.

Buakaw Beatdown of the Week:

Unfortunately, at 38 – nearly 39, I think – the Buakawminator’s fighting days are pretty much over. But that same style of absolute balls-out ruthless aggression lives on in the lighter weight divisions, thanks to the younger fighters at the Banchamek gym – and in other fighters as well. And no one embodies the extreme brutality of Buakaw’s highly physical style of muay thai better than Rodtang Jitmuangnon:

Jesus loves knockouts:

The thumbnail shot is one of the most spectacular ragdoll knockouts I’ve ever seen.

Shufflin’ keeps things groovin’ – and clearly Dawn Pine and I have similar tastes in electronica, at least, because he suggested this one, and I really like the song:

Back in the 2000s, the era of 90s club music seemed embarrassingly stupid and the cheeseball hits from the likes of Haddaway, Culture Beat, 2 Unlimited, and others, were written off as irredeemably passe.

Yet we now see that, back then, the electronica artists could actually SING. And they could play actual instruments. And they had real lyrical creativity. Compare that to the off-kilter and heavily autotuned yowlings of talentless hacks in pop music today, and the relentless, mindless stupidity of dubstep and the EDM scene, and you will quickly understand that the old stuff was way better.

As always, everything comes back into fashion eventually – both in good AND bad ways.

#KnightsOfMetal

I have no idea what to say to that one, but the comments are an absolute hoot. Apparently the original song is in Italian:

I do like the cover art for that one.

Those guys are VERY good. The singer reminds me very strongly of the frontman for GALNERYUS – similar vocal style and extremely powerful presence.

And THOSE guys are AMAZEBALLS.

“Nice work, there, chaps, but could you maybe IRON MAIDEN just a little bit harder?”

Speaking of which:

And now, at long last, here is you Instathot to get the week off to the right start. Her name is Marzena Bielarz, age 34 (just recently, in fact), apparently from Krakow, Poland. She’s done quite a bit of modelling work for some kind of cosmetic technology firm in her native country.

Now, normally a lady like this would be reserved for the Friday slots, simply because she’s sort of a cut above the usual Monday Instathots. There is, however, one little problem with her photos, and it’s a big one – she looks like a Barbie doll.

And I’m pretty sure that is intentional. Her photos appear to be HEAVILY edited and airbrushed, and that’s probably why she looks like a child’s doll. Or, y’know, an adult’s doll.

Somewhat incredibly, she actually looked VASTLY more plastic about 3 years back, when she was in maximum Hollyweird glam mode. But apparently she’s been happily married for at least six years, and I have no doubt that her husband enjoys the… umm… bumpers and airbags quite thoroughly.

At any rate, she’s the Instathot to put you in the mood for a miserable Monday. Enjoy.

Right, lads, show’s over, get off yer butts and back to work.