Notes of a Defeatist

George Saunders appeared on Letterman last week to promote the release of his new book of essays—The Braindead Megaphone.

Since we lost Kurt Vonnegut this last year it’s a good thing we have George Saunders still knocking around.



tags technorati : George Saunders, humor, David Letterman, The_Braindead_Megaphone, books

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In 1979 the television gods smiled down and gave us Legends of the Super Heroes!

Taking a team of some of DC Comics’s greatest superheroes Hanna-Barbera’s producers pitted them in a race to stop a villainous team’s plot—and to also have the occasional roast hosted by Ed McMahon.

Robin Crashes the Batmobile



Ghetto Man Roasts The Super Friends



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The makers of the Saw franchise bring us Kevin Bacon as a man out to protect his family from local ethnic street toughs who kill his son during a botched gas station robbery. His perfect life in shambles and failed by the justice system this mild-mannered executive takes matters into his own hands to protect [...]

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Two movies I can’t wait to see.

The Coens have been all over the place with their last few movies, No Country for Old Men looks to be more in the vein of Miller Crossing, Fargo, and the Man Who Wasn’t There than some of their broader stuff. Thankfully a wider audience be exposed to [...]

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Remeber Donkey Kong?

Yeah, the original one, with the little guy jumping over the barrels to get get the girl from that monkey.
Turns out somebody actually still plays it.

Oh, and Ray Bradbury wanted to let you know that you’re stupid—Fahrenheit 451 wasn’t about censorship, but T.V. taking over our lives.

Thanks Ray, that makes your book [...]

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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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tags technorati : Conan O’Brien, pardoy, satire, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin

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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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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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