In the spring of 2002, I started this blog. I was in my first senior year of college, and wanted a way to record my thoughts and feelings. To be completely honest, I had truly been inspired to start by the 9/11 attacks. While reading other people's blog entries from that day, I found myself wishing I had had an outlet like that. So, in late ( Read more... )

Amazingly, after Picking the Right numbers, I have won the Lottery, and now have approximately $175 million after taxes. For Obvious reasons, this information hasn't been mentioned before by me, since the last thing to do was to reveal my newfound riches before everything was squared away. Obviously, Fortune smiled on me, and it is my hope that ( Read more... )

Because of curling (we're heading to the league championship match next week), I didn't get home till nealry 9, so I started the show over an hour late.  So, the times listed reflect when I saw it and not when it aired.  All times are Central.

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Tonight is Oscar night. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will be teamed up as hosts (a bit ironically, since I think they had two scenes at most together in It's Complicated). It will be produced by director/choreographer Adam Shankman. The good news--he directed Hairspray (the musical version). Bad news--the rest of his filmography (Bedtime Stores, ( Read more... )

When the biggest jaw-dropper comes in Animated Feature, you know it's a rather unsurprising morning at the Academy Awards.

That jaw-dropper was the nomination for an obscure film called The Secret of Kelis, which managed to not only beat out Miyazaki's Ponyo, but big-budgeted computer animated films from DreamWorks, Fox, Sony, and Disney. It also ( Read more... )

Blame it on The Reader.

Last year, nearly every pundit expected that The Dark Knight would be one of the five nominees for Best Picture at the Oscars.  After all, it was not only the highest-grossing films of 2008, it was also one of the most critically acclaimed (Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94% positive).  Instead, its slot was taken by The Reader, ( Read more... )

Only about 37 hours left in the Aughts, before we slide into the Teens. I just hope everyone's computer is successfully programed to make the transition, and we won't have a bunch of Y2K+10 shutdowns tomorrow night.

This year's batch of Christmas ads weren't all that bad, actually. While the luxury car companies and the jewelry stores continued to ( Read more... )

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old ( Read more... )

May we never forget.