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Sunday, February 26, 2012


I'm joining 2010 and tweeting here

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Sunday, February 27, 2011


Do you realize how many union singers weren't working because of that kids' chorus?!?!?

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Screw you, Hitchens!!!! Wooo!

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Leslie Nielsen and Robert Culp dead. It's the Columbo curse!

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The audience is actually holding their applause during the obituary montage. Wow.

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The classic joke in an alternate universe where Bob Hope is a multi-Academy Award winner: Welcome to the Academy awards or, as it's known in my house, Hanukah.

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon...Is it 1994 again?

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In your face, Hitchens!!!!!1!

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Proposal: A show about the behind-the-scenes of an award show.

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The ad campaign worked. Or the backlash to the backlash worked.

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"The Oscar goes to"? What happened to And the winner is?

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These are Best Pictures winners that also won for Art Direction and Cinematography. And the nominees for Best Sound Editing are...

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OK, I was under the misimpression the mothers would be part of the ceremony...

Update: No, it looks like they are, after all.

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Russell Brand is presenting? Anything can happen! (Except me laughing.)

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I've not really seen many of the nominated films. Apparently the favorite is the one about the King of England using Facebook to help a twelve-year-old girl track down her father's killer.

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Thursday, November 04, 2010


From a comment thread in Reason for this article which mentioned the false consciousness "What's the Matter with Kansas":

COMMENTER 1:The people of Kansas don't vote their economic interests. As opposed to the people of California who voted to destroy what is left of their economy begining in 2012 in the name of a cargo cult.

COMMENTER 2:The cargo cults actually got cargo once.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010


Who's got two thumbs and has tickets to all three screenings featuring Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner this weekend? Quite a number of comedy fans, I'd imagine....And This Guy!!!!1!

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010


Robert Culp just died. Patrick MacGoohan is dead. Jack Cassidy is dead. Ruth Gordon is dead. Ray Milland is dead.

It's the Columbo Curse!!!!!

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Sunday, March 07, 2010


Streisand means Hurt Locker won...

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"Save the Dolphins" vs. "The corporations and food, maaaan" vs. Daniel Ellsberg. Who'll win?

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I repeat: When Coke had glass bottles, they rewashed and resued them. That's why they had a deposit. (At least according to One, Two Three)

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They don't even say why the Sci Tech award winners won? Wow. They really want to keep this under time...

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Per the book stores, technically, Twilight is "supernatural romance", not horror.

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Technicall speaking, Charlize Theron is African.

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Corman gets an Oscar!

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It amuses me that the motorcycle logo is for Grease 2.

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Where's the Curly Sue clip?

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They're only doing clips for Best Original Song? Holy Cow, this may actually last three hours!

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Twice with "The winner is..."; sounds like a policy change.
UPDATE: Yep.

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When I heard "Someday My Prince Would Come", I was hoping they'd bring back Snow White.

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"The winner is"?!?!?

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Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Martin, that's Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.

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No designated black guy to laugh at "tensions between blacks and white"?

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Please tell me the nominees are going to do a musical number!!! Please, please, please!!!

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What's the over-under on The Backup Plan having a "Your water broke?!?!?!?!?!" scene.

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Taylor Lautner's werewolf more famous than Lon Chaney? I think not.

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Every time the announcer says "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire", I laugh.

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Ya know why it's raining on Oscar night? Global warming...

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Eight generations? Ten years is a generation?

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Jesse Walker does a funny take-down of the Razzies. Includes a link to Sandra Bullock's appearance there last night:
I brought the shooting script, the final shooting draft. And I will go page by page by page of my dialogue. I'm going to read the line the way that I read it in the film and then I want anyone who wants to come give me a line reading back to come up.[...]If you had seen the film, seen it, with your eyes, it's pretty much a film about a woman stalking a man. That doesn't really set up the premise for a loving couple. So to give us the worst couple award is kind of a 'duh.'

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Friday, January 01, 2010

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