Notes of a Defeatist

Having been a long time complusive music, movie, and book consumer, my new job at a used book store continues to educate on the ways of the buying public. While some of my co-workers and I enjoy the hunt, most of our customers want their copy of Eat, Pray, Love, that moment and more shockingly most [...]

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Just when it seemed that Darren Aronofsky’s problems with The Fountain were over.

From Aronofsky’s Myspace blog:

“so the dvd came out.

happy that it is in the world.
hope more folks will get to see it.

as many of you can tell it is light on the extras as compared to my previous dvd releases.

everything at the studio was [...]

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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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Milwaukee has found itself ranked number two in the nation in teen pregnancy.

For those of you at home taking part in the Watching Milwaukee’s Further Degradation Drinking Game take a few for each of the future generations this will impact.
Fear not, we can expect this:
Conservatives and Liberals and in-betweeners will trade blame.
Governemnt officals will blame [...]

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A bit of advice.

If you start dating someone, and that someone might be a pet lover who has a three legged (or God forbid less limbed animal) consider all your options.

That somone has chosen to continue that pet’s life despite after an incident that usually involves significant injury or illness. That somone is more than [...]

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Your eyes are not deceiving you.

Our favorite meathead Marky “the Academy Award nominee” Mark Wahlberg is starring in the same movie Keenan Ivory Wayans did, that another marble mouthed lunk-head Dolph Lundgren did , that you guess it, Wesley Snipes is going to be making too.

Hopefully he savored those precious moments before they said: “...And [...]

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The Milwaukee Bucks finally got around to firing head coach Terry Stotts only to turn around and make an equally poor choice in promoting assistant coach and former Buck Larry “Who?”Krystkowiak to the big chair.

“In making the change, the Bucks most likely became the first team in league history to fire its coach and make [...]

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A faithful thirty second adaptation of Marvel’s big event book of the last year. (thanks to Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog)

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From Penny Arcade:



Inspired by this   hard hitting news story.

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

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Nerd: 1, School: 0
Let’s not and say we did. Departed director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan work on extending the francise.

The cast for the new Aaron Sorkin play, The Farnsworth Invention, has been announced for the La Jolla Playhouse workshop.



Keeping it Real. Real stupid. Bradley Tech and Bay View fans can’t act like civilized [...]

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