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Entries from February 2006

Samuel L. Jackson is a Whore Pt. 2

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · We're All Okay!

From March’s issue of Premiere, everyone’s favorite badass explains how he examines each and everyone of the scripts he’s sent.

“When I picked up the script and I saw the title, I didn’t even read it and I said, “I want to do it.” You know, before I opened the first page, Snakes on a Plane. [...]

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Martinifest, Doing Milwaukee Proud

February 28th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Milwaukee--A Place To Be

From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel :

“People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork.”

A group of four young men climbed onto “Standing Woman,” a tall, bronze sculpture of a goddess-like woman with exaggerated features by early 20th-century American artist Gaston Lachaise.

“They were standing on it, grabbing the boobs, and [...]

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Idiot Savant

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Shoot the Messenger

The New York Times

Karl Pilkington has debated the merits of eating a kangaroo’s penis for breakfast, envisioned a wristwatch that counts down the time left in a person’s life and proposed a new population control system in which elderly women give birth at the moment of their deaths. He has mused on topics ranging from [...]

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Ted Rally Teaches Us All

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · We're All Okay!

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Jeffrey Brown’s Death Cab for Cutie Video

February 28th, 2006 · No Comments · We're All Okay!

If you’re a Death Cab fan or better yet a fan of Jeffrey Brown’s comics check out this video.

tags technorati : Jeffrey Brown, comics, Death Cab For Cutie

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Happy Birthday Charles Warner

February 24th, 2006 · No Comments · Shoot the Messenger

No, this isn’t the lion that did battle with the Cambodian Fighting Midgets, but a Dirty Old Man who turns  27 today.

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Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

February 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · We're All Okay!

Yes, you read that right. Forty-two Midgets.

The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters                were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries             [...]

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What Would Brian Boitano Do?

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments · Shoot the Messenger

Ross “The Intern” from The Tonight Show has been blogging about his experience covering the Olympics.

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Resurrecting Bill Hicks

February 20th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Shoot the Messenger

SuicideGirls interviews Jeff Rougvie, producer of the recent Bill Hicks projects Sane Man and Salvation which were released last month.

I was a fan of Bill’s when he was still alive and I had been working really hard to track down the two CD’s that he had released in his lifetime. I found one of them [...]

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Laugh At Cheney and Hold A Gun…

February 17th, 2006 · No Comments · Shoot the Messenger

Courtsey of Crimmings, Man Shot In Accident After Laughing At Cheney

Associated Press

LAFAYETTE, Colo. Hours after laughing about Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap, Josh Kayser was himself shot by a friend during a hunting expedition.

The 21-year-old Lafayette man was taken to the hospital Monday night after his girlfriend accidentally shot him while they were trailing [...]

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