I don't have anything useful or profound to say about the tragic death of four Mounties in Alberta on Thursday. I direct you to Colby Cosh for a perspective somewhat closer to the ground.
Item: Wired reports on a bill before the US Congress that would legitimize "censor services," as they describe them. A panoply of movie-makers have previously opposed the various efforts to implement this stuff, both from the bully pulpit and also by joining lawsuits. A precis: you buy a DVD, and then you buy either a special player or software that automatically edits out the naughty bits.
Gord pointed out that my feed stopped working. If you care why, it's because I rehosted my site and forgot to adjust the Feedburner feed. I've decided for no good reason to just go with Blogger's default feed, but I also updated the Feedburner feed, so it might still work. Isn't that nice?
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.
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 alone, with substantial A and C races, too. It may have been the largest race I have ever been in.
Oh dear. After 15 minutes, I couldn't believe I'd be able to stay in the race. But I told myself that if I was suffering, so was everybody else.
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.
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.
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 that win this award. Foxx thanks the late Ray Charles for "living." Hm.
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 have a ticker under the speeches with the thank-yous. then they can give good speeches.
Sean Penn is having a major breakdown on stage or something. And it's really lame. Is he drunk, or just deep? Nah, drunk.
