mike the mountain

Rudy Ray Moore, badass extraordinaire of 70s blaxploitation cinema, passed away.

As anyone who ever made the mistake of letting me pick the movie on a late Saturday night can attest, I have a great fondness for this particular sub-genre.  And Mr. Rudy Ray Moore’s classic film Dolemite was right up there beside Black Belt Jones as my all time favourites.

It’s always sad when a classic hard case finally proves his mortality, but if nothing else this gives me the excuse to dig up the disc and start corrupting another generation!

In closing, I have to include this quote from Rudy that I saw on Ain’t It Cool:

If I should die, have my balls soaked in alcohol, lay my dick on my chest
And tell all these good cock bitches that ole Shine has gone to rest.
Shine died and went to hell.
The devil said, “All you bitches, you better climb the wall,
Cause ole Shine done come down here to fuck us all!”

Now THAT’S an epithaph.