Important Stuff -- Or Not: I Am In Agony

Sunday, February 25, 2007

I Am In Agony

I'm working on the national desk tonight. Yes, I not only have to churn out stories about the Oscars, I have to watch them. I can't remember the last time I went to a movie. I recognize an occasional name, but very few faces. Algore got his best documentary Oscar for a PowerPoint presentation calculated to give children nightmares. Thankfully, he was on the stage for a surprisingly short time. What amazed me is the adoration the people around him showed when they looked at him. It was as though he were some sort of cult leader. And I guess he is. Oh goodie, Celine singing. I wish I were home with my hi-def plasma TV and 8-speaker sound system -- I'd be watching Battlestar Galactica. One interesting side-story is that the "sitters" threatened to walk out if they don't get better pay and bigger tips. Sitters are people who sit in a seat if one of the audience members needs to go out for a bathroom break or snort of coke. It seems that the sitters who work the front of the room, where all the superstars sit, get huge tips, while the sitters who work the back rows often go home with nothing. So, they want all the tips to be put in a single pot and divided equally. The program producers do NOT want their cameras panning across a theatre of empty seats. I guess the sitters got what they wanted because all the seats seem to be filled. And here's my final story. You'll notice it contains no mention of Algore. I'm totally surprised that the editor didn't insert a line about him, even though the documentary award isn't important enough to be in the story. By the way, I haven't seen any of these movies.

"The Departed," a story of corruption among the Boston police, was the winner of the best film Oscar at Hollywood's 79th annual Academy Awards ceremony Sunday. The film's director, Martin Scorsese, also won the Academy Award for Best Director. It was Scorsese's first Oscar after losing on five previous occasions. The best actor and actress awards went to Forest Whitaker and British actress Helen Mirren, both of whom played real-life characters. Whitaker portrayed former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland." Mirren was Queen Elizabeth in the royal drama, "The Queen." "The Lives of Others, " a look at life behind the Berlin Wall in 1984, won the best foreign-language film award. The film "Pan's Labyrinth" won the Oscar for Art Direction at the start of the event, hosted by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Alan Arkin won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Little Miss Sunshine." "Happy Feet" took the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Several hundred million people around the world watched the annual ceremony.

And now, I wash my hands of it -- until next year.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'm with you. The only thing I was interested in was Jennifer Hudson since she was followed, in my house, on American Idol. At least I didn't have to watch and just wait for the news. :); 3:50 PM
Lone Ranger said...: I have to admit, I got some pleasure in seeing a total newbie beat out all the old Hollywood fixtures.; 5:17 PM
Anonymous said...: I hadn't thought about that benefit. :); 6:50 PM
Tonto said...: I guess you weren't too impressed with those interpretive dancers??

I still don't understand how they made that VW van for the movie "Little Miss Sunshine?"

It is the same show every year and somehow it gets longer each year. I just don't get it.; 12:45 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.