public service announcements

For those of you who don't read Mush Mook's inimitable blog (and why the hell not, I should like to know??) a recent post has these two useful links:

Here is a list of films whose actors, actresses, effects, makeup, sound, etc. etc. garnered an Oscar nomination. (I'm trying to avoid saying "Oscar-nominated films" because that puts Star Wars III, which was nominated for makeup (!?), in the same category as the Best Picture nominees like Munich and Bareback Mountain).

And here is a little quiz. It consists of a list of names, and you are asked to guess whether each one is the name of a porn star or of a My Little Pony.

Misty Rain?

What about Daisy Sweet?

Ah, you'll think it's easy, but I flunked bigtime. Let me know how you make out (no pun intended).

Should any of you be rushing to view all the, uh, Oscar-mentioned films before the big night, may I recommend my March of the Penguins drinking game to while away that unbelievably tedious film. It was nominated for "best documentary feature," god forbid.

In that category, I would vote for the inappropriately titled "Darwin's Nightmare," which should be called simply "Colonialism" or "How White People's Self-Important Arrogance Has Ruined the World for Everyone Else." Even though I haven't seen the film, the message has more, shall we say, resonance than that of the penguins (because it doesn't have a message, and what, I ask you, is the point of a documentary without a message??).

Come to think of it, the damn penguin film is the one that should be called "Darwin's Nightmare," since it depicts what Ang so rightly termed "the most ineffecient reproductive process on the face of the earth."

OK, OK, obviously just wasting time here. Thanks for all your cool comments recently. I went back and replied to the comments on the last two posts so check it out....