Notes of a Defeatist

Happy Trails to T.J. Ford.

You played a season and a half for the Bucks bringing speed and athleticism to the court but little else. While in Milwauke you may have only scratched the surface of your potential, but they need a point guard who can make decisons under pressure or at least a lay up [...]

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Port Washington, WI resident Dustin “Screech” Diamond need your help!



tags technorati : Dustin Diamond, Wisconsin, Saved By The Bell

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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 [...]

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April 29- August 13, 2006 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Masters of American Comics is the first art museum exhibition to examine comic strips and books on this expansive scale. Each artist is represented by in-depth groupings presented as a series of individual retrospectives featuring a range of each artist’s works from conceptual sketches and finished [...]

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Friday, an all white jury acquitted three former Milwaukee police officers of severely beating Frank Jude Jr. Apparently, there was a lack of witnesses who weren’t in the process of beating a black man half to death or fellow police officers. Maybe it’s just another example of what happens when you hire if-you’re-guilty-and-you-know-it defense attorney [...]

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Buddy Guy’s in town tonight, which should be a helluva show.

The Journal Sentinel has a good interview with Buddy, which puts his career and his life as one of the premiere bluesmen.

One evening, a friend of his father’s dropped by to show off a guitar he acquired. Guy was fascinated by the sounds the man [...]

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Could Wisconin become a filmmaking hotspot? I’ll believe that when having a college degree actually matters and installing cable will just be post script on my resume.

From OnMilwaukee.com

“This is a big deal and we’re all very excited,” says Kanavas. “A film economy has a very positive impact on the state’s economy as a whole. It [...]

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From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel :

“People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork.”

A group of four young men climbed onto “Standing Woman,” a tall, bronze sculpture of a goddess-like woman with exaggerated features by early 20th-century American artist Gaston Lachaise.

“They were standing on it, grabbing the boobs, and [...]

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               An upcoming        Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Event:











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“I know people think I did this for Al, but you have to understand I was making changes before I met Al. I went from, let’s see, 300 to 150 pounds. It was the first 110 that changed me, that I was most proud of,” Jones Reynolds said by phone recently. “I could breathe, I [...]

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