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Sunday, February 29, 2004
I am profoundly disappointed with the Academy Awards this year. So much so that I'm calling it a travesty. Once again commercially successful cheese wins out over quality films that only had taste and craftsmanship going for them. What, were the Academy voters afraid of hordes of angry geeks descending upon them with tears and picket signs if Bored of the Rings didn't win this year? Not that I blame them. After all, they picketed Paramount over the theme song for Enterprise.
The lesson I learned here is that if you want to win Oscars, be a journeyman hack director with gobs of money backing you for special effects and you just might get lucky.
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by Tabby at 2/29/2004 10:15:00 p.m.
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Saturday, February 21, 2004
What really sucks is that when I think of something to write about, or when I'm in the mood to write, it's never when I can. I may be on the bus, I may be busy at work, but rarely is it when I'm sitting at home doing squat. I want to entertain here, I really do! But sometimes I'm just... meh. You know what I'm saying?
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by Tabby at 2/21/2004 08:34:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
I felt so liberal going to work tonight, wearing my Margaret Cho t-shirt and reading my Al Franken book! If only I had a portable DVD player to watch Michael Moore at the same time, I would have had it made.
Will I feel so liberal when I'm at the dentist's office in, oh, just under 12 hours? Probably not.
Like the segue between the two paragraphs? I can write the headlines for the local news when it comes on right after a major mini-series or motion picture event.
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by Tabby at 2/17/2004 03:16:00 a.m.
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Sunday, February 15, 2004
I know. I wasn't there on the 12th. Nothing to write about, y'know? Brain freeze. Writer's block. Nada. Nothing.
BUT THEN...!
I'm kidding. I still have nothing. How about a poem on the spot?
Sitting at my desk, I rummage through my brain.
Staring at the screen, will I ever be the same?
Struggling through this block is wearing on my mind,
What I need is Johnny Depp to help poor me unwind.
I really should promise to never do that again.
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by Tabby at 2/15/2004 11:22:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
I can't think of anything to write just now. I'm sorry. Try back tomorrow, okay?
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by Tabby at 2/11/2004 11:55:00 p.m.
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Saturday, February 07, 2004
Okay, okay. Canadians can overreact just as much as Americans at times. We have a hockey commentator here, Don Cherry, who I don't care much for and tend to disagree with most of his opinions, but I don't care about hockey so fortunately don't see much of him. Recently he made some comment about French-Canadian hockey players and visors, and basically how they aren't manly men. He was being his usual idiot self.
Now there are calls for an investigation, the CBC wants to put him on a 7 second tape delay and words like "racist" are being bandied about. Yeesh.
That last one brings to mind a question that's been bothering me for some time now, and Quebec separatists have been quick to toss out that label quite often in the past. Are francophones a race apart from others decended from that general part of Europe? If so, that throws everything I thought I ever knew into disarray.
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by Tabby at 2/07/2004 10:19:00 p.m.
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Friday, February 06, 2004
This is just getting more and more ridiculous. Now a Tennessee woman is suing Janet Jackson et al over the breast-baring incident. Having a boob for a president is bad enough, but come on, America, just how much do you really want to be a laughing stock? I can't believe how out of hand this story is getting.
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by Tabby at 2/06/2004 05:35:00 p.m.
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Thursday, February 05, 2004
It's still in the news, and now it's even spam! Saw one today that talked about "Janet Jackson Hardcore Nipple." Yeah, you read that right. Hardcore nipple. I could see, maybe, if someone wanted to buy a Wardrobe Malfunction t-shirt, but come on. Porn? Out of a split second flash? That's stretching it.
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by Tabby at 2/05/2004 07:44:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Grow up, America, it was just a breast. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about, because a two second flash of a breast with a barely visible nipple has been in all the news, and... I can't believe I'm typing this... now is under FCC investigation. For a breast that you missed if you blink. It's being called, "a classless, crass and deplorable stunt." Get over it. And this gets me - how do people know it was planned? Because Justin Timberlake was laughing and made a joke about giving people something to talk about. You see, he wasn't contrite enough. He wasn't crying in shame and rending his own clothes. He wasn't on his knees to his nation begging for forgiveness. So you see? It was planned! Did you see the look on Janet Jackson's face? If it was planned, it was obviously news to her.
Here in Canada, Global Television received a single complaint about nudity. No, it wasn't the breast, it was about Richard Hatch strolling around in the buff on Survivor: All-Stars. Okay, that I can understand.
I'm getting really tired of hearing about how parts of my body, parts that are designed to feed babies, are obscene. There is nothing obscene about the human body. Half the world has boobs. Half the world has vaginas. Half the world has penises. Everyone has an ass. Can we please stop being horrified over them?
Anyway, why not buy the t-shirt?
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by Tabby at 2/03/2004 09:34:00 p.m.
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Monday, February 02, 2004
One down, two more to go. Three dentist appointments this month. How's that for fun? My face is pretty much back to normal now, but it's been puffy and numb for a while. It was strange, but it seemed puffier than normal and I was numb right up to my eyelid, but it didn't really affect my lips too much and was able to talk normally. A bit of a shame, actually, because half the fun of novocaine is the slurred speech.
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by Tabby at 2/02/2004 03:37:00 p.m.
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