The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has degenerated into a politically-charged dynamo of progressive bulls**t ever since Bob Hope retired as Master of Ceremonies at the annual award presentations. Motion pictures like “Syriana” and “Buttf**k Brokeback Mountain” are in contention to win big, but, sadly, neither can be considered entertainment as much as attempts at public indoctrination to far-left political ideology.
And the ceremony itself is mostly a gathering of exhibitionists and narcissistic Celebridiots® seeking only to parade themselves as though they are the essence of the world. Moreover, the preparations leading up to the ceremonies takes their toll on the community. Streets are blocked off in the area about a week before the event which disrupts traffic for miles around. We’re fortunate that we don’t have to go through that area during the week leading up to the awards.
I refer to the pomp and circumstances of the Academy Awards where the Celebridiots® gather as the “Grand Narcissathon” – in which exhibitionists and self-important Star Whores parade their vanity before their groupies.
UPDATE: Crash won best picture much to everyone’s surprise. IMDB‘s preview poll had Crash in a distant second place to Brokeback Mountain, 46% to 25%. Given the total surprise to everyone, one might wonder if the Academy may have manipulated the results based upon negative vibes they were getting from middle America with regard to a gay cowboy flick.
Skull Island’s a happening place. Sauropods stampede to a booming death, insect carnivores the size of phone booths writhe out of the swamps, and Kong – stricken by the sight of blonde hair – develops an inappropriate interest in the one woman who’s aboard ship. Eventually, the entrepreneurs who have initiated this less-than-idyllic odyssey capture Kong and take him back to Manhattan as an E-coupon sideshow attraction.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who fans claim is never wrong, predicted six more weeks of winter on Thursday, matching the forecast of professional meteorologists.
Damsel and I are big fans of R. Lee Ermey, “Gunny Ermey” of the History Channel’s Mail Call feature. We see Ermey as a no-nonsense patriot who supports the troops and is justifiably intolerant of moonbats who seek to impose their jackassery on American values. 
R. Lee Ermey fans in Okinawa were not in short supply. Fans waited in line for up to 3 hours just to get the chance to meet and get an autograph by the Gunny.
Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1935 – January 6, 2006) is a Chicago-born American soul music, jazz, and blues singer. Known for his smooth vocal style, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had “the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game.”
Damsel and I are inaugurating a new category to highlight entertainment icons who use their notoriety to promote left-wing ideology. We call this category “Star Whores.”
Clooney, who plays a veteran – burned out, worn down, distrustful – CIA agent frustrated at the way the agency has become politicized, is also the film’s producer, along with Steven Soderbergh. “Syriana” was inspired in part by a book by former intelligence agent Robert Baer, a Mideast specialist who is the basis for Clooney’s character, Bob Barnes. But Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of “Traffic” who directed and wrote “Syriana,” says the movie is “pure imagination – based on fact.”