Notes of a Defeatist

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.



tags technorati : Jonathan Lethem, books, reading, Milwaukee, You_Don’t_Love_Me_Yet, audio

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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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While it’s a sketch that ran in the last half hour of SNL, there’s still something amusing about it.

Well, maybe because I loved Black Snake Moan and was just glad somebody else paid it some attention.

tags technorati : Saturday_Night_Live, Rainn Wilson, Black Snake Moan, trailer, satire, Kenan Thompson, parody, comedy

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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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tags technorati : Chris Rock, Saturday Night Live,2008-Presidential-Race, humor, politics, video

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As one of the three people who reluctantly admit to liking Way of the Gun,its shortcomings and all I got excited when I heard about this exchange between Jimmy Kimmel and a sheepish Ryan Phillippe.  It appears Phillippe has been dodging Kimmel after a little onset incident involving himself and Sarah Silverman.









Here is the [...]

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Can’t wait for this.

From the minds of Judd Aptaow and Seth Rogan:









tags technorati : Knocked Up, comedy, Judd Aptaow, Seth Rogan, Katherine Heigl

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Relive a piece of your childhood while you can, still no plans on a dvd release.

However, there’s going to be a Monster Squad reunion at Monster-Mania Con 7 in February.









tags technorati : Monster, Squad, horror, 80s, childhood, Monster-Mania-Con7, Wolfman, Dracula, Mummy, Frankenstein, teen, trailer

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October 5th,2006, the first officially sanctioned boxing match between two published authors was thrown down. Friend of this site, Craig Davidson (author of The Fighter, Rust and Bone) challenged any writer to meet him in the ring. He was met by Michael Knox, author of Play out the Match. Produced by Ian Daffern. Edited by [...]

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Jack Kerouac on the  Steve Allen Show





This will sound surprising, but before Kevin Smith made a shitty animated T.V. show out of Clerks, someone else beat him to it and made an even shittier live action version. The good news—we can’t berate Smith this time for huckstering one more needless incarnation of his register [...]

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