Notes of a Defeatist

He threatened to wipe stupid looking grins off faces or he’d gouge out eyeballs and skull-fuck you. He even generously offered to rip your balls off, so you could not contaminate the rest of the world with your incompentence.

Now, you can bring home the iconic military persona of R. Lee Ermey to motivate you without [...]

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Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

The Associated Press
Thursday, October 27, 2005; 7:10 PM

FREDERICA, Del.—The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy [...]

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Our tax dollars are being wasted in a cease and desist order all over the Onion’s use of this.

Oh, shit. Better watch out. The administration will be knocking on my door.



Apparently, there has to be an “application for an exception” to use the presidential seal.

Just wait, soon we’ll have to apply to sing the [...]

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The man’s Cool quotient should be under review with his choice in film roles(Sphere, Deep Blue Sea, xXx: State of The Union among others—we’ll even let Coach Carter slide, he was trying to be inspirational) adds another turd to the punch bowl—Snakes on a Plane.

Who has the goods on Sam that he agreed to [...]

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Entertainment Weekly provides an “Oral History of The Watchmen “, just in time for the release of the new Watchmen hardcover. You know, they’d hate to miss the cool kids boat since they’ve discovered comics weren’t just for chronic mastabators.

At least they try, The New Yorker still can’t muster up a comic review that [...]

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compliments of Angry Youth Comix’s Johnny Ryan.

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By Bill Bryan

POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, Oct. 19 2005

St. Louis police believe that a woman who was found dead Tuesday afternoon in a

rear window in the 5400 block of Mimika Avenue had become wedged there while
trying to burglarize a house and died of asphyxiation.

The identity of the 36-year-old woman, who is from Lincoln County, is being

withheld until here [...]

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“Let’s talk about your respective fan bases. A lot of them self-identify as kind of on the geeky side.”

Time Magazine conducts an interview with Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman on pop culture, comics, and “National Geek Day”.

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My lady love, Zadie Smith did a reading at Harry W. Schwartz Books on Downer last night and man, was it packed. Her new book On Beauty, has been getting raves and even a Booker nomination. Can’t wait to read it, the segment she read was entertaining.



Unusual for this event were the actual intelligent questions [...]

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The stuff of epic childhood arguements played out before our eyes.

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