I always wanted to liveblog the Oscars (well, not always. I wasn't sitting around at the age of 7 saying "I have no idea what a blog is, but I know I want to do it while watching the Academy Awards!"), but LJ really isn't a good forum to do it. After all, I can imagine that my friend list wouldn't be too happy with me if I posted a new update every ( Read more... )

Tomorrow night, Hugh Jackman will be hosting the 81st Annual Academy Awards. For whatever reason, the ceremony is shrouded in secrecy, to the point that not even the presenters are being revealed in advance. As my friend Sean pointed out (via IM) "I can just see joe blow at home all antsy over 'OH I HOPE TOM HANKS PRESENTS BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY!'"

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The Bucket List ( Read more... )

There aren't a lot of huge surprises in this year's list, but there are a few shockers.

The main surprise is the intense love that The Reader got. It's a decent movie, but I didn't think it had a shot at Best Picture. Plus, Kate Winslet, despite all the promotion of her for Best Supporting Actress for the film, ended up as a lead nominee (bumping ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is almost as much fun as Christmas morning for me, since that is when the nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards will be announced. As you might have gleamed, I'm just slightly obsessed with the Oscars, the way Bugs Bunny is just slightly obsessed with carrots (incidentally, only one Bugs Bunny cartoon--1958's Knighty Knight Bugs--won ( Read more... )

This was making the rounds a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't have the chance to do it. Now that I'm back from my first trip of 2009, I think it's time to post. Thanks to blindapprentice and senorbrightside, who I lifted this from ( Read more... )

For some odd reason, this year's batch of Christmas commercials didn't really bug me too much. Maybe there were fewer of them or maybe they were just less annoying this year. It also helped that some of them had eye candy. The Big Lots ads were pretty lame, but the young chorus guy was pretty cute, for example.

At any rate, now that Christmas is ( Read more... )

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let ( Read more... )

Instead of treating you all to my usual banal listing of my dull, dull life, I'd thought I'd give the world an early Christmas present and just do a couple of memes and post some clips that I enjoy.

whobyfire78  actually tagged me on both of these memes, one of which I've been neglecting for over a week.

( The Question Meme )

Happy Thanksgiving (or, for my international readers, Happy Thursday!)!

I'm at my parents this morning, waiting for the Macy's Parade to start and watching this incredible story on Good Morning America about this 8-year-old kid who's a superstar athlete despite only having one leg. Wow--makes me feel inadequate.

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