Notes of a Defeatist

Bush’s next mission: Putting The ‘America’ back in North America.

from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

“Alberta’s oil sands cover 54,000 square miles, about the size of North Carolina. There are an estimated 1.7 trillion to 2.5 trillion barrels of bitumen there, more oil than in the Middle East. The supply could help reduce U.S. dependency on overseas oil [...]

White Castle has “angered the undead” with its new garlic cheese sandwich.

First it was theme park rides and now it’s prison.  What are short people to do? I guess sexually assualt children because they’ll only get probation (if they live in Lincoln, Nebraska).

From CNN.com:

“I’m assuming a short inmate would have a much more difficult [...]

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  [...]

An interview with some guy in a Joss Whedon costume.

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

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 [...]

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. [...]

While there’s been a fair amount of whiskey swilling around my stomach over the years I know nothing about it. Well, other than it’s spelled with an “E” in America.

5 Things to Ask: Whiskey

By ROBERT FRICK | Apr 1, 2006

1. How does U.S. whiskey measure up to Scotch whisky?

Scotch whisky (note that it’s spelled without [...]

The property of former Plainfield, Wisconsin resident and psychotic serial killer Ed Gein has been put up for sale.

“I’m asking $250,000 because I’m guessing theres some kook out there willing to spend the money for his 15 minutes of fame.” said Mike Fisher, property owner.

tags technorati : Ed Gein, Serial Killers, Wisconsin

Michael Ventura, author of Letters At 3AM recently took a road trip.

“Bob Dylan says he doesn’t know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He’s been saying things like that for 40 years and I don’t know a rock critic who doesn’t take him at his word. But I also [...]