Notes of a Defeatist

After last night’s episode of Lost a few things were revealed about The Others.

Walt blurted out to Michael that they were making him take “tests” before Ms. Clue silenced him.

The Others are Scientologists!!

Consider:

—Ms. Clue not letting Walt talk about the tests is because Michael hadn’t paid the $200+ test taking fee to join the religion. [...]

Definitely looking forward to Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, which will hopefully motivate me to pick up Eric Schlosser’s no-hold-barred exploration into the crap I eat.

tags technorati :  Fast   food   nation   fox   searchlight   participant   kinnear   arquette   hawke  [...]

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned.

It recovered and fled onto a wooden [...]

Imagine you’re on your way to a job interview at the BBC.

Pants crisp and winkle free. A new jacket on your back, thanks to the arm-twisting by your wife.

“It’ll give you that extra thing“, she said working to reassure you.

The jacket hugs your shoulders in a way that makes you wonder how anyone could get [...]

An interview with some guy in a Joss Whedon costume.

tags technorati : Nerds, Joss Whedon, Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Serenity, comic books, movies

Anyone see West Wing tonight?

Airing the pilot before the finale couldn’t have provided a better ‘before and after’ picture of where the series went without Aaron Sorkin behind the helm. The finale felt like 60 minutes of everyone waiting to leave. So many missed opportunities to show where the characters go, or tie up loose [...]

Stephen Colbert lampooned just about everyone in sight at last weekend’s 2006 White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner.

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From Hollywood Elsewhere:

Southland Tales director-writer Richard Kelly’s passport has been stuck “under review” for the past several days in Washington, D.C., because, I’m told, there’s a guy named James Kelly on the government’s terrorist watch list. The Donnie Darko director’s full name is James Richard Kelly, hence the confusion. But c’mon…one guy may have done [...]

Greg Knot of the Chicago Tribune reviews Neil Young’s new album.

“Only weeks after the release of a gently moving concert documentary, “Heart of Gold,” Neil Young is back with a snarl.
In three weeks beginning in late March, he performed, recorded, mixed and mastered 10 songs for a new album, “Living With War,” that play like [...]

Tomorrow at 6:15 PM, the Milwaukee Art Museum will host a dialogue with comic artist Chris Ware and comics scholar and exhibit co-curator John Carlin. They will talk about comics as an art form in addition to discussing Ware’s work on display in the exhibition. This event is in coordination with the Milwaukee Art Museum’s [...]