Notes of a Defeatist

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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Kurt Vonnegut died today and frankly, I don’t know what to do about that.

My first experience with Vonnegut’s work was like most people—Slaughter House Five, a book that I wasn’t sure what it was about, but was sure that the words Slaughter House were a positive indication. Turns out my hunch was right. The book [...]

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No, that’s not the acid kicking in, Aaron Sorkin will be flexing his inner Gilbert to Wayne Coyne’s Sullivan as they bring Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots to stage.

“Sorkin is just one of many marquee collaborators attached to the project: Tony Award-winning director/producer Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, The Who’s Tommy) will be overseeing the show. [...]

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

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Marvel’s Red, White, and Blue Boyscout finally got interesting and they killed him off.



(Time.com)

tags technorati : comic books, cry-babies, Captain America, Marvel, Civil-War, geeks

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The teaser trailer for the This American Life t.v. show that premires March 22 on Showtime.

Because we can never get enough of them: bizarre sex laws! How many of them have you broken?

I’m a writer too…

Frank Miller says: “Sin City 2 is ready to go!”   Maybe, this one will try to do more [...]

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Candy.

Roses.

Candlelit dinners.

Romance is for suckers, you say?

from AFP:

Most Americans will be celebrating Valentine’s Day this year with the usual chocolates, teddy bears and romantic dinners, but some will be going to great lengths to get away from their lovers.

One man not keen on spending the evening of February 14 with his mistress has arranged to [...]

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The Chicago Reader speaks with On the Street Doing Life author Anne Keegan about her new book, her column with the Chicago Tribune, and how she’s not “a Gen Xer boring everybody with what I think.”

“I never wrote about myself,” she says. “They [her Tribune editors] may have decided I didn’t write enough silly stuff [...]

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Locked your keys in the car? How-to use a tennis ball to unlock your door.

Which superhero are you?
As to be expected, EW again tries to lead the weekly chant that Studio 60 will be cancelled and that 30 Rock isn’t that far behind. [...]

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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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