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[cleolinda]

Nnnnnngh. Burlap... bag... beaten with... reeds.... nnnngharrrrr. I was up for another couple of hours trying to read comments after that last entry, mostly because I can't just fall straight into bed after several hours of tension and/or excitement; I have to unwind for a while. Also, I did laundry. And I still got a good seven hours of sleep. It's just something about sitting there and having to be on for that long--desperately trying to be witty on the fly.

And then there were the comments. Lots and lots of comments.

Those are just the comments from the entries I forgot to turn off email notification for. So I went through and tried to read as many as I could--I'm going back through and re-enabling notification as well. But there were probably 1000+. Rest assured, however, that I read everything that was there as of midnight last night.

Wing and Sars from TWOP also blogged the Oscars (for Yahoo), but the headline "near-real-time blow-by-blow" on TWOP makes me think they fudged a bit.

Horoscope of the Day: In order to appreciate the value of winning, you have to lose sometimes.

Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Vladimir is still heartbroken over The Aviator losing last night, whereas I still can't believe it beat out Snicket for costumes and Snicket AND Phantom for set design. And I was rooting for The Aviator.

But that's okay, because I woke up in a world where Cate Blanchett has an Oscar, and that's a better world than yesterday's.



Link from sunshine95: The E! Backstage Blog:

9:40 p.m.: "I've been looking forward to this all evening." Best Supporting Actress winner Cate Blanchett says as she faces the press, and I think she's being facetious. And then she turns her back on the press and quaffs a drink, and I know she's not being facetious.

9:47 p.m: Blanchett, on whether the Oscar will turn her into a diva: "Absolutely, you asshole!"

9:49 p.m.: Blanchett wraps her press conference, but not her thirst. "Can I get back to the champagne now?" she says as she heads off.

BWAH.

Comments

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

That bandwidth exceeded picture is a lovely bunch of comments ;)

And I thought getting 100 from my community was bad...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I just changed photo hosts. Although that's a little disturbing, because that's a PAID Photobucket account. (Who's hotlinking my icons?!)

[karintheswede]

(hotlinking is a menace. Be mean. whoever it is deserves it)

[sydelbow.livejournal.com]

I hope those blanchett quotes are true.

Also, I'm reading the... AOL blog?... ANd HAHAHAHAHA
6:03 PM PT
Damn, Beyonce, leave some eye shadow for the rest of us.

[sweetle.livejournal.com]

Burlap... bag... beaten with... reeds.... nnnngharrrrr.

Is this you, or Natalie Portman's Oscar dress?

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

God, I love Cate.

[lezopez.livejournal.com]

Yea that about sums it up. She's just lovely.

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

Cate and Kate are awesome.

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

I just fell in love with Cate. Hee!

[slacker1985.livejournal.com]

DUDE...I don't know how you do it. Think I'd go crazy trying to keep up with that many comments.

As for me, I stopped watching the Oscars about halfway through, and later, of course, came here first for all the news. In fact, your journal ties with SNL and Conan O'Brien for my primary news sources. I love that. :-)

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

Heheheheh. I'm surprised you even keep email notification on at all, considering how much traffic you get on a daily basis.

::searches for Cleo oscar coverage from beginning::

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/2005/02/27/ ought to cover it, although you'll want to go back to http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/2005/02/25/ if you missed "Oscar telecast spoilers FROM THE FUTURE!"

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

Her Cateness, she awesome! And she drinks! And swears! And sweats! Yay!

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Ah, Cate.

I tried reading Sars and Wing's thing, but I stopped when I realized they were just going to be mean instead of funny. You were much better.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't like it much, either. Which is sad, because normally I really enjoy Sars's writing.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't mind mean--it all just seemed... kind of perfunctory.

[takarakanashi.livejournal.com]

LOL, I don't know how you do it sometimes... :D

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Whereas I don't know -why- she does it. ;-)

[takarakanashi.livejournal.com]

Heh, I agree with that as well. :P

[tenebris.livejournal.com]

*icon love* That's excellent!

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

*icon love*

[meredith-mae.livejournal.com]

Cate's oscar made up for Clive Owen not winning. Almost. Supporting actress was one of the categories in which I was genuinely surprised, and the only category in which I cheered outloud when I heard the winner. Overall, a better show than last year's oscars, especially since by the end, I actually wasn't sure if the BP oscar would go to the Aviator or Million Dollar Baby.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Hee. Cate cracks me up.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Cate made Kate proud. Makes up for Kate not winning her Oscar as well. LEAVE SOME GOLD FOR THE KATES HILARY!

[http://users.livejournal.com/lorien__/]

*rofl*
gotta love cate... ;)

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how did you get Yahoo to filter your LJ comments so nicely? I keep trying various permutations on filters, but it always screens some of them into the trash :(

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Let's see...


Livejournal
If...
From contains "LiveJournal"
Then...
Move message to livejournal folder


Livejournal2
If...
From contains "LJ Comment"
Then...
Move message to livejournal folder


Two filters seem to do it. : )

[distant-cord.livejournal.com]

You know, before I only kinda liked Cate. I thought she was a good actress, but other than that I didn't really have any sort of feelings about her.

But now? I love her. Caaaaaaaaate!

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

good lord, woman, that's a lot of comments.

while i completely agree they probably fudged it, it was still funny. although yours was better. yes.

[house-monkey.livejournal.com]

662 is more comments than I've had for my entire livejournal ever. I get excited when I have 3 or 4.