Bill Courtney

POST 100! A Time for Reflection and Recommitment and Safety Training with Bert the Turtle

Friday, 27. April 2007, 03:37:56

Hello and greetings. The staff and myself here the Uranium Café are elated and proud to announce that we have reached our 100th post. There has been a definite learning curve involved in the development of the look and content of the Café and the going has not always been easy and it is not over by a long shot. The direction of the next 100 posts will be clearer we hope and the look and feel of the site will become more polished. The problem often is not what to promote and comment on but what not to. There is simply too much precious material to choose from. Much time and energy now goes into the editing of images found on the web to raise them to the high standards we promote here a the Café and more time will go into that in the future when we begin our themed photo albums. Imagine if you can a photo album of nothing but fine quality images from Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! or Jungle Girls in Bondage comic book covers.

Valuable time that could be spent feeding and clothing hungry children goes into searching for good quality video trailers and clips in order to promote classic films such as Astro-Zombies, The Vampire Lovers and Castle of Blood. Expect video samples soon from Ted V. Mikel’s The Corpse Grinders and exploitaion genius Jack Hill's timeless classics Pit Stop and Spider Baby. It is not often easy to choose between my passion to eraditcate illitercy in the 3rd world or to edit pictures of strippers from the 50's and I lose a lot of sleep wondering if I've made the right decision that day, so please be understanding. There have been some set backs in the use of MP3s to promote great muscians like Glen Danzig and Jimmy Page but for the moment the site I am uploading to is relatively reliable and the files can be saved as well. There are always essays and comments in the work and there will be a new focus on film commentaries. I am working on editing a cavalcade of old comic book covers and men’s magazine covers from the days when men could be chauvinistic swine and enjoy a good exploitation magazine for a buck or less… and still get dates with hot chicks!

Work is being done as well in editing older posts from as far back as post # 1 itself. We will continue to strive to bring you the highest quality postings on the wild and exciting world of cult film, comic books, pin-up girls, pulp magazine and paperback books, various types of rock music, and who the hell knows what else. For all I know we could do a post on Oscar Wilde, as queer a subject as that may be for the Café, if it tickles our fancy.

And we must remember that the world that The Uranium Café honors has not always been a safe and decent world (thank God or what would I write about) and we should take a moment to reflect on times not long ago when the world was on the brink of nuclear conflagration. Please join myself and the staff here at The Uranium Cafe (named in loving tribute to the greasy spoon diner outside Los Alamos New Mexico, home of the world's first atomic bomb test) and safety conscious Bert the Turtle as we remember the good ol’ days when men were men and most knew how to arm a hydrogen bomb as well as change spark plugs on a T-Bird. Take it away Bert, and tell us how we once were taught to duck and cover before PE class...