Random dumb thoughts

This page is to put those little weirdnesses of life that don't really fit anywhere else, or aren't worth a page of their own

Monday, March 01, 2004

Okay. Can we never hear, see, or write the words "bling" or "bling-bling" anymore? I'm not even sure that I have all the connotations down, but even so, it's got to be the most overused, fatuous attempt at trying to take vapid white people and give them faux "street-cred". Instead it makes them look ridiculous and makes me sick.

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. While it irks me that the locals decided to pull the plug to cave into the medieval mindset in that part of the world, who on earth was the person who thought that show would fly there in the first place? However, any excuse to get that show off the air is a good one, I guess.

Oscar commentary 2004:
--- Dull, dull, and dull. What was with all the wedding dresses and big poofy bows on the butt? Looked like a wedding circa 1987.
--- Poor Bill -- I was pulling for you, dude! Even though Sean Penn was nowhere near the ass I thought he'd be and did seem genuinely touched to get the Oscar, I wanted it for Bill. And not just because it would have been the ONE amusing, witty acceptance speech of the evening.
--- Just what did Owen say to get bleeped? Or was it just a censor with an itchy trigger finger? ("Oh dear, oh my, those boys look like they might be naughty! I'm a-flutter! I'm a-twitter! Fetch me my smelling salts! Push the button, for the love of God push the button!")
--- Ladies, it's February. I know it's chilly there. I didn't need your outfits to point it out to me.
--- Is it just me, or did Billy have work done on his face? He had that puffy, no wrinkle, plastic look of the recently renovated. Don't do, it Billy. Just say no to drugs, at least of the botulinum type.
--- They cheated on the Dead Celeb montage. No one won the pool of who gets the prime "final" spot. By giving both Bob and Katherine their own separate montages, and opening with Gregory Peck, the closer was that spoiler, Donald O'Connor. Make 'em laugh buddy, and I bet if anyone had put odds on that they'd be laughing all the way to the bank right now.
--- None of those technical awards should be in the big show. Boy, are those people boring. I don't care if it's your two seconds in the spotlight -- just be gracious, thank the academy, gaze at Oscar lovingly and GET OFF THE STAGE. Only the best actor and actress should be given any leeway to be a blithering idiot for 90 seconds. Black and Ferrell had it right.

Yeah, I know most of those comments are cranky, but wouldn't you be if you'd sit up for four hours watching that drivel and had to get to work the next morning?

.: posted by Lily Monday, March 01, 2004

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