What the heck?
I entered an Oscar contest on Saturday. It was a pretty simple contest. Pick the winners of six categories. The four acting categories, plus Best Picture and Best Director. I went five out of six. But even if I'd gone six out of six it wouldn't have mattered. Somewhere between posting my entry and the Oscar telecast, my entry disappeared from the contest. Oh well, I won the important contest yesterday anyway.
My four teammates and I won the winter league finals of the SoCal Trivia League and each pocketed $200 in cash. It made for a long day but who cares? They showed me the money.
I'm waiting to see how The Onion deals with the a-hole who was tweeting on their account last night and called the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress ever the "c-word". While we no longer draw and quarter, firing should be the minimum punishment. Or perhaps a suspension accompanied by public exposure, so we can all let this a-hole know what we think of their choice of words.
With Governor Moonbeam's plan to make the public schools unequal in funding in order to provide more educational services to support low-income students, particularly those for whom English is not their primary language, it is time for someone to teach him a lesson in Constitutional law. This idea is a textbook example of violating the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment.
Notice how most of the people making comments about Jennifer Lawrence's most recent slip and fall of awards season are men? Could it have something to do with the fact men haven't had to navigate slippery stairs in high heels and long skirts? At least she didn't walk like that actress/writer at the Gloden Globes who looked like she'd borrowed her mother's shoes for the first time.
Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand ruled with their performances at the Oscars.
Allegations that Afghans working with U.S. Special Forces troops in one province have been torturing other Afghans has led to the U.S. troops being ordered out of that province. Why should this bother anyone? We should be letting the Afghans to their own thing and not interfere.
Omlette afficianados should head to the Parker Meredien Hotel in New York City where they have an omlette with a $1,000 price tag. It does have ten ounces of caviar in it.
Why did James Franco feel the need to ad-lib his one line at the Daytona 500? All he had to say was "drivers, start your engines". It was "gentlemen" until the age of Danica Patrick who is many things but is no gentleman. So Franco ad-libs and says "drivers and Danica, start your engines". Now the scripted line would have been fine. An ad-lib of "gentlemen and Danica..." would have been fine. Franco blew this one.
Was it bad breath? Or was Erin Andrews simply exercising her right to not want a kiss from 50 Cent when he tried to liplock her at the Daytona 500? Dude, just cause you're who you are, not every woman wants to kiss you.
Amy Adams is gorgeous. That is all.
A couple of quibbles with the trivia finals last night. Asking a music question where George Harrison is the right answer is fine, right up until they played "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Asking which in which of the contiguous 48 states the point furthest to the North is fine, right up until you mention the state's motto which happens to be a dead giveaway. Asking something about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel from WWII is fine, unless you ask what was his nickname; earned for his skill at desert warfare. If that didn't give you "Desert Fox", you didn't belong in the finals.
Today is a day off, but it will be a busy day. Fortunately by the time dinner rolls around I plan to do nothing but relax, play Words With Friends and go to bed early.
This Date in History:
On this date in 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
On this date in 1836, Samuel Colt was granted a patent for the Colt revolver.
On this date in 1919, Oregon instituted the first ever gasoline tax by a state on sales of the fuel within its borders.
On this date in 1932, Adolf Hitler becomes a naturalized German citizen, which allows him to run in the upcoming election.
On this date in 1933, the USS Ranger is launched. First ever U.S.ship designed to solely be an aircraft carrier.
On this date in 1968, the Hy Ma massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. It never attracted the attention that My Lai did, probably because the soldiers involved in the mass killings were from South Korea.
On this date in 1988, Roh Tae-Woo becomes President of South Korea, replacing Chun Doo-Hwan, the architect of the Kwang-Ju massacre.
On this date in 1991, an Iraqi scud missile hits a barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing nearly 30 U.S. reserve soldiers.
On this date in 1991, the Warsaw Pact is officially disbanded.
Famous Folk Born on this Date:
Enrico Caruso
John Foster Dulles
Zeppo Marx
Frank Slaughter
Gert Frobe
Jim Backus
Bobby Riggs
Larry Gelbart
Christopher George
Sally Jesse Raphael
Bob Schieffer
George Harrison (he would be turning 70 today had he survived)
Ric Flair (he was wrapped in a sequin robe at birth)
Kurt Rambis
Sean Astin
Chelsea Handler (that party will consume some liquor supplier's full inventory of vodka).
Rashida Jones
My four teammates and I won the winter league finals of the SoCal Trivia League and each pocketed $200 in cash. It made for a long day but who cares? They showed me the money.
I'm waiting to see how The Onion deals with the a-hole who was tweeting on their account last night and called the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actress ever the "c-word". While we no longer draw and quarter, firing should be the minimum punishment. Or perhaps a suspension accompanied by public exposure, so we can all let this a-hole know what we think of their choice of words.
With Governor Moonbeam's plan to make the public schools unequal in funding in order to provide more educational services to support low-income students, particularly those for whom English is not their primary language, it is time for someone to teach him a lesson in Constitutional law. This idea is a textbook example of violating the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment.
Notice how most of the people making comments about Jennifer Lawrence's most recent slip and fall of awards season are men? Could it have something to do with the fact men haven't had to navigate slippery stairs in high heels and long skirts? At least she didn't walk like that actress/writer at the Gloden Globes who looked like she'd borrowed her mother's shoes for the first time.
Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand ruled with their performances at the Oscars.
Allegations that Afghans working with U.S. Special Forces troops in one province have been torturing other Afghans has led to the U.S. troops being ordered out of that province. Why should this bother anyone? We should be letting the Afghans to their own thing and not interfere.
Omlette afficianados should head to the Parker Meredien Hotel in New York City where they have an omlette with a $1,000 price tag. It does have ten ounces of caviar in it.
Why did James Franco feel the need to ad-lib his one line at the Daytona 500? All he had to say was "drivers, start your engines". It was "gentlemen" until the age of Danica Patrick who is many things but is no gentleman. So Franco ad-libs and says "drivers and Danica, start your engines". Now the scripted line would have been fine. An ad-lib of "gentlemen and Danica..." would have been fine. Franco blew this one.
Was it bad breath? Or was Erin Andrews simply exercising her right to not want a kiss from 50 Cent when he tried to liplock her at the Daytona 500? Dude, just cause you're who you are, not every woman wants to kiss you.
Amy Adams is gorgeous. That is all.
A couple of quibbles with the trivia finals last night. Asking a music question where George Harrison is the right answer is fine, right up until they played "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Asking which in which of the contiguous 48 states the point furthest to the North is fine, right up until you mention the state's motto which happens to be a dead giveaway. Asking something about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel from WWII is fine, unless you ask what was his nickname; earned for his skill at desert warfare. If that didn't give you "Desert Fox", you didn't belong in the finals.
Today is a day off, but it will be a busy day. Fortunately by the time dinner rolls around I plan to do nothing but relax, play Words With Friends and go to bed early.
This Date in History:
On this date in 1570, Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
On this date in 1836, Samuel Colt was granted a patent for the Colt revolver.
On this date in 1919, Oregon instituted the first ever gasoline tax by a state on sales of the fuel within its borders.
On this date in 1932, Adolf Hitler becomes a naturalized German citizen, which allows him to run in the upcoming election.
On this date in 1933, the USS Ranger is launched. First ever U.S.ship designed to solely be an aircraft carrier.
On this date in 1968, the Hy Ma massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. It never attracted the attention that My Lai did, probably because the soldiers involved in the mass killings were from South Korea.
On this date in 1988, Roh Tae-Woo becomes President of South Korea, replacing Chun Doo-Hwan, the architect of the Kwang-Ju massacre.
On this date in 1991, an Iraqi scud missile hits a barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing nearly 30 U.S. reserve soldiers.
On this date in 1991, the Warsaw Pact is officially disbanded.
Famous Folk Born on this Date:
Enrico Caruso
John Foster Dulles
Zeppo Marx
Frank Slaughter
Gert Frobe
Jim Backus
Bobby Riggs
Larry Gelbart
Christopher George
Sally Jesse Raphael
Bob Schieffer
George Harrison (he would be turning 70 today had he survived)
Ric Flair (he was wrapped in a sequin robe at birth)
Kurt Rambis
Sean Astin
Chelsea Handler (that party will consume some liquor supplier's full inventory of vodka).
Rashida Jones
posted by me at 6:16 AM
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