Notes of a Defeatist

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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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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The Black Keys played on NPR’s World Cafe1 about their career path thus far. One exciting thing on the horizon—a collaboration with recent Grammy winning Bluesman Ike Turner2 on their forthcoming album which is being produced by Danger Mouse.



tags technorati : The Black Keys, Blues, music, Ike Turner, Danger Mouse, NPR

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Jonathan Lethem stopped by Harry W. Schwartz books in Milwaukee, a couple of weeks ago to read from his new novel, You Don’t Love Me Yet.

Here’s some audio of the event.



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Countless times each year we remember Martin Luther King Jr. We recall King’s battle to end segergation, marching for racial harmony, and articulating his dreams with that rhythmic booming voice.

For a man whom we memorialize, it is a great disservice to his legacy that we just focus primarily on a few years of Dr. King’s [...]

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