Notes of a Defeatist

April 29- August 13, 2006 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Masters of American Comics is the first art museum exhibition to examine comic strips and books on this expansive scale. Each artist is represented by in-depth groupings presented as a series of individual retrospectives featuring a range of each artist’s works from conceptual sketches and finished [...]

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Failing for some people can be happenstance, others we make it a lifestyle.

Having had the experience of bombing in front of group of people when I was taking a comedy class, there was no need for a Bad Set Decoder Ring.  All you had to do was observe the guy in the front row [...]

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Surprise! Henry Rollins is mad. But really, nobody gets mad like Henry. This time the chances of President Bush getting impeached have gotten Henry’s dander up.

tags technorati : Henry Rollins, George Bush, rant

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It’s no secret that the Palladino’s won’t be sticking with Gilmore Girls after this season after failed contract negotations. The Palladino’s distinctive voice made Gilmore Girls watchable, entertaining, if not the sheer reason alone that a show that’s only action was lips moving at a break neck pace could last for six years.  Their departure [...]

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Nathan Rabin of The Onion A.V. club interviews Simpsons creator Matt Groening on his show’s legacy and what he himself thinks is funny.

AVC: You collect bootleg Simpsons merchandise. What are some of the prized items in your collection?

MG: Well, I’ve lost a number of my plaster Tijuana Bart Sanchez figurines to earthquakes. It’s quite tragic. [...]

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James Cameron believes digital cinema and 3-D technology could be the salvation of dwindling box office numbers…if only the theaters would upgrade already.

Why doesn’t he just shut up and make another movie? Maybe then with all his box office dough he can start upgrading theaters himself.

tags technorati : Jim Cameron, digital cinema, 3-D [...]

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There’s a fun interview over at beaver dam french club with omnipresent writer Claire Zulkey.

tags technorati : Claire Zulkey, interviews, beaver dam french club

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The good folks at Fat Possum Records have just released an EP The Black Keys Chulahoma: The Songs of Junior Kimbrough

An originator, Junior may have been one of the most important blues guitarist of the last half of the 20th century. Junior re-imagined the blues. Building on a tradition from the Mississippi Delta, he created [...]

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Check out the latest from MTS Films.

tags technorati : Star Wars, parody, spoof, Spud, Darth Tator, Vader, Lucas, trooper, Mr. Potato Head, Stars Wars

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Friday, an all white jury acquitted three former Milwaukee police officers of severely beating Frank Jude Jr. Apparently, there was a lack of witnesses who weren’t in the process of beating a black man half to death or fellow police officers. Maybe it’s just another example of what happens when you hire if-you’re-guilty-and-you-know-it defense attorney [...]

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