Notes of a Defeatist

Only a few more days until Knocked Up’s release!

My Judd Apatow affinity reached a life long devotion when my Mom and I spent a Saturday night watching NBC burn off the final few Freaks and Geeks episodes. We laughed, drank Rolling Rocks, and the phone never did ring from that girl that went out with [...]

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Us government trying to seize new Michael Moore film says producer.

Harvey Weinstein fires latest shot in battle over healthcare documentary

Charlotte Higgins in Cannes
Saturday May 19, 2007
The Guardian

Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore’s latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its [...]

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Congratulations are in order! Colby Buzzell’s My War: Killing Time In Iraq won the 2007 Lulu Blooker prize,which recognizes the best book that began as a blog on the Internet. This comes in the same week that U.S. military abruptly blocked soldiers’ access to Myspace, Facebook, MTV, YouTube, and other sites because of “bandwidth” issues.

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tags technorati : Ted Rall, politics, Don Imus

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A few weeks ago, I found myself eye to eye with this creature in a local Menards.

Then it started to sing.

Too bad Christmas is so far away.

tags technorati : Deer, singing, red-neck, white-trash, video

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30 Rock’s over for the season and thankfully it’ll be back next year even if Alec Baldwin has to pretend to troop through it so his public doesn’t have to concern themselves any longer with his parenting abilities.

Let’s be honest Thursdays have been lonelier and a lot lighter on laughs without Tina Fey & Co. [...]

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WNOV-AM (860) Milwaukee has barred talk show host Michael McGee for comments about the death of Katherine Sykes. Sykes, the mother of conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes, WTMJ 620 AM, died earlier this week in a fire at her Mequon home.

...”Mother Sykes, she dead. To me it’s the vengeance of God. I ain’t got [...]

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From EW:

By Gregory Kirschling

When author Kurt Vonnegut died last week at the age of 84, the first person EW rang was Vonnegut’s longtime friend John Irving, who was Vonnegut’s student at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-’60s. Irving — the writer of The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, [...]

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