By Grabthar's Cross-Head Insulated Screwdriver!

Doesn't Have The Same Ring, Does It?
You can see why they went with "Hammer", can't you?  It has an air of gravitas that isn't there with "Saw" or "Awl".  
     In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, I refer to that classic, affectionate parody "Galaxy Quest", which gently mocks "Star Trek" without being nasty about it. Art?

Frightfully well-observed fans

     Of course, this has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that follows, although that may change at any moment, depending on how capricious I feel.
     Talking of 'capricious', here's a link to a delightful organ composition entitled "Capriccio Sopra Il Cucu" - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7brRoP0Mfs

     Very light and entertaining, utterly unlike what most of you imagine Creepy Organ Music to be like.
     Anyway, what I wanted to get back to was Tadeusz Kosciuszko, that Polish gentleman whose life was so filled with events that it would take a good few weeks to detail.  His interesting life was mirrored by a South Canadian, one Merian C. Cooper, who joined the Georgia National Guard in order to participate in the South Canadian hot pursuit of Pancho Villa into Mexico.  Art?

Pancho's villa.
(Perhaps)

     MCC joined the US Naval Academy, got kicked out for being too interested in aircraft, joined the AEF and went to Europe in 1917, became a fighter pilot, crashed, became a  bomber pilot, got shot down, got released at the end of the First Unpleasantness, then became what was essentially a mercenary, recruiting South Canadian pilots willing to fight for the newly-formed Polish Republic.  They formed the - no prizes for guessing - Kosciuszko Squadron.  Art?

Motto: "You will only be in our way for a very short time"

     This squadron took part in a war you've probably never heard of: the Russo-Polish War.  Poland, taking advantage of the Ruffian Civil War, occupied choice bits of Ruffia that bordered it.  The Bolshevik Ruffians, once they'd settled the hash of their White Russian enemies, proceeded to attack the Poles and forced them back almost to Warsaw.  The Poles then, in late 1920, won a staggering victory that laid their enemies low, so low that the Bolsheviks humbly negotiated a peace settlement quite in favour of the Poles.

A state-of-the-art armoured fighting vehicle
(At the time)

     Of course, when the Sinisters over-ran Poland in the Second Unpleasantness, and for a good 45 years afterwards, you did not dare mention the Russo-Polish war, because it was an humiliating embarrassment.  We shall see what Tsar Putin makes of it in a couple of years, at the centenary of the Battle of Warsaw ...
     Oh, you might know Merian C. Cooper better at the writer, director and producer of a film from 1933, called "King Kong".  Art?

The original and best

     Appropriately enough for an aviation nut, he is the pilot of the plane that finally shoots Kong off the EST.
     Well then, time to strap the motley to a sled and set it going!

The sled in question

You What?
Okay, Conrad admits that he scans the serried ranks of beer bottles at the supermarket, looking for one that will serve as inspiration for a BOOJUM! entry.  I found this one, which had me a-scratching my head.*

"God love him, the dog is mad -"

     Apart from being a paean to rabies, which hardly seems like a winning association of ideas - although see earlier posts this week about Mattesson's 'Fridge Raider' Stalking Saw-Toothed Monsters - the allusion to 'Pere Ubu' is also rather baffling.  It refers either to a very obscure South Canadian post-punk band, fronted by the splendidly-named Crocus Behemoth, whom I remember being played on the late Sir John Peel's program, or -

This -

      A satirical, absurdist play by French playwright Alfred Jarry.  I remember seeing a version broadcast on the Beeb featuring Donald Pleasence, but I can't find any pictures.  Sorry.  However, Art?

Will Ernst Stavro Blofeld do instead?

That Damn Coincidence Hydra Again!
Having caught a sequence from a <cough cough> version of "Ready Player One" I looked up the plot on Wikipedia, and the section on References to Popular Culture caught my eye, because your humble scribe is really nothing more than a nosy rascal wearing a protective inquisitive suit and - WHAT'S THIS!?
     King Kong.
     Only hours after looking up MCC's involvement in same.
     I think someone is trying to tell me something.
     - but what?

A grape
(It'll make sense later)

*  Puzzlement, not lice.