Notes of a Defeatist

Compliments of The Smoking Gun :

When later confronted, the 52-year-old Johnson, who apparently had been drinking, told the neighbor (who has the improbable name of Alan Goats), “You caught me Alan, I tried to fuck your sheep.”

Buddy Guy’s in town tonight, which should be a helluva show.

The Journal Sentinel has a good interview with Buddy, which puts his career and his life as one of the premiere bluesmen.

One evening, a friend of his father’s dropped by to show off a guitar he acquired. Guy was fascinated by the sounds the man [...]

Well, Crash sure killed my Oscar predictions.

The Academy decided they were bold, brave, and radical enough for just nominating Brokeback Mountain. So they rewarded preachy and mediocre but, well intentioned Crash. Racial tensions might be easier for Americans to swallow than two men who love each other.

At least that meathead Matt Dillion didn’t win. Otherwise [...]

Could Wisconin become a filmmaking hotspot? I’ll believe that when having a college degree actually matters and installing cable will just be post script on my resume.

From OnMilwaukee.com

“This is a big deal and we’re all very excited,” says Kanavas. “A film economy has a very positive impact on the state’s economy as a whole. It [...]

Having had the opportunity to subsitute teach, I learned chemical equations make no more sense if you have the teachers manual in front of you, instructing how to order alcohol in Spanish class can consume a fair amount of time, and the key to stopping a paint fight does indeed mean fighting fire with fire, [...]

Hard to remeber the last time that I managed to stay awake or not flip the channel during Saturday Night Live. Certainly didn’t hurt that Natalie Portman hosted. The show was unusally solid, well, if you forget that Fallout Boy played. And, yeah, there was another wacky rap that had the finger prints of the [...]

Easily, the single sickest story of the year.

Detective Ron Fithen interviewed Patton after he was arrested while leaving a movie theater last weekend.

“Listening to his describe it, it’s like listening to a crack or cocaine addict. He’s addicted to children’s urine,” Fithen said.

“I like it because it makes me closer to them—like I’m drinking their [...]