Oscar is a film staring Stallone

I watched the Oscars Sunday night like I usually do every year. Nothing gets me more excited than seeing Peter O'Toole lose another Oscar while he grasps to life. Really though Peter O'Toole has an honorary Oscar, which is saying that "Hey, you should have won for Lawrence of Arabia but so should have Gregory Peck." They were also saying that Burt Lancaster should have won too that year(but he won two years before), and Jack Lemmon (who had already one one and would win again). Peter O'Toole is now the most nominated person in the Best Leading Actor Role that has never won.

The problem with the Oscars this year was that the Best Director, Best Picture, Best Documentary, Leading Actor and Actress awards were in the bag. There were even jokes about Helen Mirren being assured of the Oscar during the ceremony before she won. Even though Ellen did a great job hosting the predictability of the big four categories made it a lackluster night.

I have three big disappointments to add. Children of Men should have recieved more nominations, Best Director and Best Picture to be sure. The Queen was a great movie, but Helen Mirren was the biggest part of that I didn't feel it deserved those additional nominations. Mark Wahlberg should have won for Supporting Actor. Finally Ellen Page should have gotten a nomination for Best Actress for her fantastic work in Hard Candy; Helen Mirren should still have won it but some support for the smaller film industry would have been appreciated.

My prediction for next year is that Transformers: the Movie will will two Oscars next year, while the Aqua Teen Hunger Force will not recieve a nomination.

My personal war against Google

For my handful of readers, if any, that were wondering if I quit this Blogger Rag, no. I have been having a personal war with Google. You see I signed up to GTalk, or something, back in Japan so I could talk to a few of my classmates. This service made me sign up for a Gmail account of which I had no intention of using. Google in their infinite wisdom discovered that I have a Blogger account and decided that merging them would be something excellent. I stopped using my Gtalk (or whatever) and forgot my password. Eventually my account did not sign in correctly and I had forgotten my password. That should be find, this is why I need to ask a security question and it'll send the password to my email account.

This leads to the second phase of my story, the settings on Gmail also changed my account so that the password that I needed to sign onto Google was my Gmail account. So the password was sent to the account that I needed the password to sign onto. Great. I wrote Google an email and finally after a couple of months I'm back.

So an update on me, I am still an unemployed overeducated graduate but I have some leads. I have been wasting away indoors and shoveling snow while I have the flu. Finally I have drastically refined my cooking skills.

Peace, Love, and Capitalism everyone...