Nothing on TV!!
I remember watching the Oscars with my folks as a kid, haven't really been into it since. What I find strange is that an industry which is, by definition, entertainment, takes itself so seriously - and so much more seriously than most people take it, or them, if you prefer.
Hope your Sunday is going well.
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This is the first year I *can't* watch the Oscars. I get embarrassed. That's the only way I can put the feeling. Love the movies - can't handle the preening. Oh wait... I might go watch Al get his award. eeu. I must be feeling masochistic. oh well, snowed in and stuck..
Posted by: Phoenix | Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 10:50 PM
I know why Hollywood libs gave "An Inconvenient Truth" the nod. Those people don't age and will live another two-thousand years and they don't want to be all hot and sweaty.
Someone ban Celine Dion.
And thank you, Melissa Etheridge, for making six million viewers have an instant sphincter attack.
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 12:39 AM
If I wanted to watch brain dead idiots who have deluded themselves into thinking they are more important than they are, I'd go to DUNG, or Daily K.
Posted by: Hard Right | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 11:06 AM
I love the Oscars - not for the celebrity watching and not because I have any faith in the "Academy's" taste in movies. No, I love the Oscars because there is no other event that brings out the rank hatered felt by the radical right. And why not? The Oscars have pretty much everything to get them seething nicely: sexually independent women; homosexuals; black people and other ethnic minorities; Jewish people (the vast majority of whom recognize the evil advocated in their name by Riehl, Coulter, Limbaugh, et al); internationalism; the encouragement of expression; women who would never in a million years go to bed with them; women with whom they proudly bark about never wanting to go to bed in a million years; talent; people who make a lot of money, but who have also expressly rejected the radical right's failed positions on pretty much everything; etc. etc.
It's hilarious to read, for instance, at Little Green Fascists, about how much they don't care about the Oscars and how much they HATE HATE HATE everything the show represents - to the tune of almost 650 comments: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24588_The_Obligatory_Oscar_Cried_Thread&only. It's also funny that in wingnuttia it is considered a virtue to never see any of the movies the loony right decries as "anti-American" or whatever pathetic reasoning they give to avoid ever having to step foot out of the echo-chamber. This year was particularly fantastic because Al Gore was thrust further into the spotlight. I could almost hear Dan Riehl's pee-sized brain exploding.
I can't wait to see Faux News' "comedy" spin on the show. It'll go something like this:
"Knock knock
Who's there?
Hollywood liberals are gay and have AIDS
OMGz pwNED LOL!11!!!1111on3111one"
Posted by: Legalize | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Speaking of brain dead idiots-Legalize has posted another unbalanced rant. Funny, I thought MJ made you mellow.
Posted by: Hard Right | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 01:14 PM
Speaking of intellectual cowards, Hard Right has graciously taken time out of its busy schedule of watching NASCAR highlights, and working third shift at Taco Bell, to show off the rhetorical skills it has learned from the loony right noise machine. With skills like that, it might make manager at Taco Bell in a couple of years!
Posted by: Legalize | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 01:42 PM
Ooo NASCAR, Taco Bell. I'm sooo hurt. Sorry, but I'm not a NASCAR fan. As for Taco bell, I don't touch it. Now go back to your street corner, bitch.
Phoenix, do you think we could get Celine classified as a terrorist? I mean just her name invokes fear and panic.
Posted by: Hard Right | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 03:06 PM
"Now go back to your street corner, bitch."
Wow, with *foul-mouthed* and *uncivil* language like that, it's no wonder that you "win" so many arguments. And I never claimed that you EAT AT Taco Bell. I can definitely see that working so many hours there would cause one to never want to touch the stuff.
Posted by: Legalize | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 04:48 PM
Man, the History Channel had a "Dog Fights" marathon on last night, and Patton was on AMC, what more could you ask for?
Legalize, that "rank hatered" you speak of just doesn't exist in me for the Oscars. It's more "rank apathy" in my case. The quality of the product coming from Hollywierd is so low these days that these films don't particularly interest me.
Posted by: templar knight | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 05:15 PM
Speaking of rhetorical skills, Legalize, what is this: OMGz pwNED LOL!11!!!1111on3111one"
I read your rhetorical rants and all I can think is that maybe you're a divorce lawyer who defends guys who beat their wives. Your lengthy lists of aberrant behavior items sounds like the kind of crap you have to come up with to excuse the guy for bludgeoning a wife. "So, as you can see, yer Honor, he got honor and stayed honor, and she deserved it."
Posted by: Phoenix | Monday, February 26, 2007 at 11:56 PM