THE OSCARS

I'll be on the road tonight, so I'll miss some, if not all, of the show. I'm posting this here in case you commenters wish to comment. I'll join in if I get where I'm going in time, but I don't know much about this year's nominees, because as in past years, I generally see movies with my daughter, and thus am pretty much limited to the genre known technically as "Movies Featuring Talking Raccoons."

Comments

[Annie Where-but-here]

Marty won! Maybe now he can afford new glasses.

[Just Ducky]

How many absolutely amazing movies are the 4 guys currently up on stage responsible for, do you think?

[Meanie the Blue]

Thank .... my ancestors??

[PirateBoy]

Now: Little Miss Sunshine.

Please?

[Siouxie]

Annie, those DO look like fake nose/glasses/eyebrows LOL

[Just Ducky]

Annie, and an eyebrow wax.

[Siouxie]

Marty! come over ...I have wax!!

[Meditrina]

Ducky - No Shit. Good Call.

[WriterDude]

JD -- certainly more than the Academy voters have paid proper respect.

[Siouxie]

LOL ok...now I'll have to see it

[WriterDude]

And the Oscar goes to -- The Departed!

[Hammond (Vote for Dave!) Rye]

G'night all

[Just Ducky]

Appropriate at this point, isn't it?

[Annie Where-but-here]

It's kinda scary seeing Jack looking weak. I'm used to seeing him at Laker games, so tough, so timeless, so competitive....kick it, Jack.

[Siouxie]

Nite nite everyone!!!! it's been a blast!!

[Meanie the Blue]

What?! No Best Talking Raccoon award??

[PirateBoy]

It's been real, people! G'Night!

And Ms Just.Ducky? How _do_ you manage to have so many funny things posted? Do you have Dave and Judi as speed-dial on your Batphone?

Goodnight!

[Meditrina]

Apparently the Academy is making up for bad judgement and lost time and, after seeing The Departed *(I had to watch it twice for full effect and etudie), it is an excellent movie.

Leo and Matt are not hot in Departed, but prove unequivocably what talented, brilliant artists they are.

[Meanie the Blue]

Fun watching you guys, er, the program. Sleep well, ladies and gents.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Oh, no....it's over? Really? Rats. Less than 21 hours until '24.' Take it away, Amazing Steve.

[Just Ducky]

*snork* Meanie, you were absolutely correct--Peter O'Toole was not in Camelot! I was thinking of Becket--my bad!

I did love Richard Harris in Camelot, though.

[Just Ducky]

Nighty-night, y'all! Hasta manana!

*flaps off to bed*

[Just Ducky]

*flaps back after reading PirateBoy's question*

PB, I'm just a lucky duck, I guess! (And it's a DuckPhone.)

*flaps off to bed, again*

[WriterDude]

Good night to all of the recently Departed Oscar winners.

[Momo]

Scorsese! Woot! But my favorite moment of the evening was still the song by Will Ferrell, Jack Black, and John C. Reilly.

[judi]

gotta say i wish leo had never done titanic. just about every other movie he's been in has shown what a great actor he is. that one just sucked.

[Annie Where-but-here]

judi - and that's the only one of his that I saw....never wanted to see any more of him after that.

somebody made a comment about the west coast writers having a midnight deadline. Sportswriters deal with this all the time. Just ask Mrs. Blog. And I think East Coast writers would have a tougher time of it.

[Mot the Hoople]

After the success of Tsotsi last year, 2 of the 5 movies are set in Africa but both do not show the continent in a good light. In case you're wondering, I do NOT speak like Leonardo.

[Stevie W]

I tried to make sort of a pun with "huge" something, but his surname didn't lend itself. "huge ack, man" is just nonsense.
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LTTG, but one of the names my doo-wop trio used in grad school (long ago, but long after the doo-wop era) was "Hugh Jackne and the Zits."

[Stevie W]

"Annie, those DO look like fake nose/glasses/eyebrows LOL"

LTTG (is there an echo) but I caught a glimpse of a TV when he was on. I swear I thought it was Eugene Levy from Second City.

[mm]

well coffee's on folks, for those who aren't still passed out from the post-Oscar party, or the Oscar party,or whatever.

[JerseyGirl]

Thanks, mm...

*puts poppyseed strudel out for bloglits*

*goes off to check snowfall*

[mm]

I think we got around 2 inches, but now it's very icy. That's the bottom line for am travel here.

Poppyseed! My favorite! Thanks JG.

[tropichunt.com guy™]

Morning, blogits!

I'm so bad....was there some type of award ceremony on TV last night? The Grammys? The Emmys? The Daves?

[Mot the Hoople]

Poppyseed strudel? How does that differ from apple strudel?

The bright new candy-apple red coffee maker has been on for ages waiting for you late risers.

[Siouxie]

Good morning!! Afternoon to the non Leo-like talking Mot!

I'll have my coffee now please. I brought left over horse-derves from the Oscar after-parties I crashed. I woulda thought they could afford more than pigs-in-a-blanket & bagel bites. geez.

[Mot the Hoople]

Hi Sooz, in all fairness old Leo doesn't do too bad a job of a South African accent, however there're many of us who speak with a very neutral accent, sort of BBC English.

[mm]

Mornin' Siouxie, JG, THCguy, and Mot (well, afternon)!

I guess JG and I are the only ones contending with snow/ice/"weather" this am.?

So how did you all enjoy blogging the Oscars? Is this something new? I wasn't aware we had any advance notice of the intent to blog.(?) But naturally we don't need much of an excuse to party.

[Mot the Hoople]

I'll be sitting back and watching the show tonight, did get a bit of the live feed on E! this morning.

Off to see a few clients to tie up some loose ends as I only have this week left. Will check in a bit later.

[Siouxie]

Hey mm!! This was my first year blogging the Oscars so I'm not sure it's something that's done?? Although Dave should live-blog it. I started watching with my daughter and then joined the blog for the last hour or so. It was fun!

And sorry to say we're back to 80 degree weather...

Mot, I love the English accent!!

[judi]

mmmm i LOVE poppyseed... that was always my favorite when i was growing up. my grandma made little tart/ruggelach sort of things with that stuff.

mot: i just watched tsotsi a couple of months ago. not sure where i even heard of it -probably just browsing netflix - and it was excellent.

[Leetie]

I thought that Jodi Foster looked great. That color was perfect on her. I did want to cinch-up her halter a bit though.

Nicole Kidman looked alien.
J-Lo: bad
Philip Seymour Hoffman: Nick Nolte's mugshot
Meryl Streep: WTF was she wearing around her neck?

[Jeff Meyerson]

Watching them on TV when they were held in downtown LA (Dorothy Candler Pavilion at the Music Center, I think), driving to almost-downtown afterwards to satify a craving for an Original Tommyburger ( a greasy 24/7 chiliburger stand/institution where there are no seats, always a line, and a 50-50 chance of a knife fight the line).

YES!!! Stevie, when we visited L.A. in the late 70s/early 80s my sister used to take us to the original Tommy's. I'd kill for one now.

And I loved the Ali story.

Oddly, they are not drawing circles around Cameron Diaz' mess on top of her head. Did she not realize tonight was the Oscars?

*snork* at sly. I thought she just came through that Arkansas tornado on the way in.
And *snork 2* for I don't mind Ellen in a tux....but not that one. I think she got it off Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny.

Good job, people.

[JerseyGirl]

Howdy mm, judi, ... and any other poppyseed fans who might be lurking. I had no idea there were so many others who love it like I do. ;-)

Mot: The paper-thin pastry is the same as for apple strudel, and it's rolled up the same way. The filling is made of ground poppy seeds that are sweetened. I've never made it from scratch myself, tho' years ago I cheated and used filo and commercial canned poppyseed filling. (Heresy. I admit it.)

I got hooked on poppyseed strudel at the late lamented Morris County (NJ) Fair when I was a 4-Her showing my rabbits. Every year there was a booth selling Julia's Hungarian Pastry, and her poppyseed strudel (called "Mohnkuchen" in German; Mohn = poppyseed) was one of the highlights of the fair for my family. Equally wonderful was Julia's cherry cheesecake.

Interestingly, poppyseeds used for culinary purposes do produce opium-like metabolites that can be detected by drug testing. The Feds have seen fit to allow Americans to keep eating poppyseed anyway.

mm: Glad you only got 2 inches, albeit with ice. We got a couple of inches here in NW NJ. It was slushy underneath, but thankfully it didn't freeze... We got off cheap once again, unlike our friends out in the middle of the country.

[Kevin In JAX]

The Shadow puppets, or whatever that was, we could have done without.

[Leetie]

Jersey Girl: I used to live in Mo Co. And I did drug testing. Kooky!

[JerseyGirl]

Leetie... Small world, huh?!? Where did you escape to from Morris County?

Do you still do drug testing?

I've read that folks who consume foods made with industrial hemp seed are lobbying for an exemption similar to that for poppyseed. It produces miniscule traces of THC metabolites.

/rant on

The thing that bugs me the most about the Feds' ban on industrial hemp is that hemp fiber is used to make the paper US currency is printed on. I found that out when touring the Crane Paper Company's mill and museum in the Berkshires a few years ago. Since it's illegal for Americans to grow hemp fiber, the US has to import it from places like China, Canada and Hungary. I'd be willing to bet that the seed would be a good source of biodiesel, too.

/rant off

Anyway, pleased to meet you, Leetie. ;-)

[Leetie]

*rolls up a dollar and lights it*

After growing up in Northern Jersey I escaped to Northern VA to be with my hubby. Once here, I got back into environmental chemistry for a few years but now I stay at home with the kid.

Pleased to meet you too!