Notes of a Defeatist

Louie C.K., the man who responsible for Pottie Tang and some funny, funny shit on The Chris Rock Show among other his other credits, is the subject of a very excellent cover the of Boston Globe Magazine.

Seems Louie’s been preoccupied blowing away the sitcom conventions for HBO.

After decades of being the staple of network television, [...]

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A brush with evil: Serial killer’s painting brings bad luck, owner says

By Laurel J. Sweet
Sunday, November 20, 2005

A Malden man’s guilty pleasure of investing in murderabilia has come back to haunt him thanks to a “cursed” clown painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, which the collector claims turned his life into a three-ring circus.

“I [...]

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It’s been well over a year since Elliott Smith died under mysterious circumstances. While there are no new answers there is a memorial site in place. Smith’s music has been constant in my life since first hearing it and no amount of scouring cd bins will bring him back.



However, a recent search did find [...]

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Yesterday, the Philadephia Eagles exorcism of the ego known as Terrell Owens, stirred much debate amongst talking heads.

Did the Eagles do the right thing? Should the team forgive and forget?
And, just how badly would a team want a to win to bring the T.O. circus to their franchise?
This is a question Packer fans are [...]

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BIGGER THAN WATERGATE

By Ted Rall 1 hour, 7 minutes ago

Bush-Cheney Traitors Deserve Prison, Impeachment

URBANA, ILLINOIS—To weigh the outing of

CIA agent Valerie Plame against historical standards, consider that no leader of the Soviet Union—including that master of ruthlessness, Josef Stalin—ever arranged for the name of a KGB operative to appear in a newspaper. Adolf Hitler [...]

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