Notes of a Defeatist

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Entries from February 2007

Black Snake Blues

February 12th, 2007 1 Comment

The Chicago Reader speaks with On the Street Doing Life author Anne Keegan about her new book, her column with the Chicago Tribune, and how she’s not “a Gen Xer boring everybody with what I think.”

“I never wrote about myself,” she says. “They [her Tribune editors] may have decided I didn’t write enough silly stuff [...]

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Your propaganda moment:

February 10th, 2007 No Comments

tags technorati : G.I. Joe, animated, propagnda, military

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‘Americans just don’t get irony’ Simon Pegg explains

February 10th, 2007 3 Comments

‘What are you laughing at?’

from the Guardian UK

by: Simon Pegg

You could spend a lot of time exploring the differences between British and American comedy only to reach the conclusion that, ironically, they’re pretty much the same. Back when director Edgar Wright and myself were writing our debut feature, Shaun Of The Dead, we were certainly [...]

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I love local t.v. news!

February 10th, 2007 8 Comments

From Penny Arcade:



Inspired by this   hard hitting news story.

tags technorati : T.V., news, Fox, WITI-TV, Milwaukee, Catastrophe

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Ramblings…

February 4th, 2007 No Comments

Locked your keys in the car? How-to use a tennis ball to unlock your door.

Which superhero are you?
As to be expected, EW again tries to lead the weekly chant that Studio 60 will be cancelled and that 30 Rock isn’t that far behind. [...]

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Knocked Up Trailer

February 1st, 2007 1 Comment

Can’t wait for this.

From the minds of Judd Aptaow and Seth Rogan:









tags technorati : Knocked Up, comedy, Judd Aptaow, Seth Rogan, Katherine Heigl

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