Archive for February, 2005
Monday, February 28th, 2005
I’m in Recovery
This is another of my recurring ruminations on time. Supafamous has his fixations (warning: the least disturbing part of the linked post talks about castration), I have mine. Today’s was brought on by a trip home on the bus, part of my post-race no-riding recovery day. The bus got me home about 35 minutes after […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Bike race report
So, I did my first bicycle race of the season, a nice jaunt scheduled at 80 km. For training purposes, and to properly test my skills, I rode with the “B” group. Even on the line, it was obviously a huge group. It may have been close to a hundred riders in the B group […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Blogging the Oscars
Just to clarify what is going on below, I live-blogged the Oscars. I did this myself, so I don’t have anyone special to thank.
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Eastwood gives a reasonable speech. The funny line is comparing himself to Lumet, and proclaiming “I’m just a kid!” Best picture: also Million Dollar Baby. Reasonable speeches by the three of ’em. Conclusion: pretty spare show, Rock did a darned good job as host. I’m not the ideal audience for the show.
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Best actor nominees. TLO likes Johnny Depp when he’s “cleaner.” The girls don’t like Leo DiCaprio. Marjie, on Eastwood: “Is that his daughter?” Mike: “no, that’s his wife. His daughter is older.” Jamie Foxx wins for “Ray.” Haven’t seen it, but heard it was good. Then again, you usually hear that some people like performances […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Chris Rock cracks a good joke about his accountants (the two huge guys from before) wanting a word with Sean Penn. Ooh. Best Foreign Lanugage goes to another assisted-suicide film! Woo! Kaufman cops a Best Original Screenplay for “Eternal Sunshine.” Short speech. I missed it. Rebecca says it was quite funny. TLO thinks they should […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Sean Penn is having a major breakdown on stage or something. And it’s really lame. Is he drunk, or just deep? Nah, drunk. He’s introducing best actress. Will the abortion movie or the euthanasia movie win? Oh, it could be the drug smuggler movie. It’s Swank! And her dress has no back! And nearly no […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Puff Daddy introducing the Polar Express song, sung by Beyonce and Josh Groban. Beyonce’s best dress yet. Rebecca points out that if you listen to Groban’s CD, you get the voice without having to see him. I still like the French song the best, but TLO favours this one. I just like French folk music. […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Annette Bening has mysteriously huge trapezius muscles. And Yo-Yo Ma is playing cello. Yeah. Oh. He’s playing over the reel of the dead: Reagan, Ustinov, people I’ve never heard of, Fay Wray, some agent, others, a Disney animator, Russ Meyer!! jerry Orbach, unknowns, Janet Leigh, Reeve, Ozzie Davis, nobodies, an inventor, Paul “Roots” Winfield, others, […]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Scorsese is introducing an award for . . . humanitarianism in film-making? It calls to mind the idea of cruel film-making. It’s being given to Roger Mayer for achievements in film preservation and medical philanthropy towards people in the film industry. This is rather muchly Inside Hollywood, but hey, it’s their awards show. I’m just […]