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[cleolinda]

Could I have picked a better time to come down with a dry, dry, scratchy, dry throat? I feel something coming on, but it won't hurry up and get on with it.

Anyhoo, Oscars: I've decided not to blog live this year (even as live event blogging is becoming more and more popular), woe. I just notice that I miss tons of stuff when I'm too busy typing what happened three seconds before. And since I never thought the glorious day that they would let Jon Stewart host would ever come, I kind of want to pay attention to this year's show in particular.

Also, my mom is busting her ass to get dinner ready and eaten before the Oscars. I think this is the first year (well, the first year since her cousin was nominated as a set decorator on The Fisher King) that my family has taken the show (half) as seriously as I do. I suspect this is in no small part because my mother now has a doomed, oh-so-doomed horse in the races: Pride and Prejudice in general, and Miss Keira in particular. We who know that Reese Witherspoon will not let you win the pool salute you, Mom.  

Comments

[eyespaintedred.livejournal.com]

You and your health, Cleo! *shakes head* Take care of yourself!

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Might I suggess Celestial Seasonings Wellness Tea? It has echinacea and Vitamin C in it, and I swear it helped me recover faster than my husband. Use up to four teabags per day, steep for 6 minutes total. Hope you feel better!

[promise19.livejournal.com]

I love celestial seasonings wellness tea! They stopped carrying it locally, but you can order it from their website. It really is awesome. AND it works!

[lottery.livejournal.com]

Your mother is a very brave and determined soul. Just for her sake I'll cheer even harder for Keira.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Eat and rest and regain your strength, dearling woman!

(Yay, I managed to stick a post in before the thundering hordes...)

Am currently watching the Red Carpet extravaganza myself, and I agree that live blogging is altogether too distracting -- especially with the split frames used by E! to give everyone information overload. So sit back and enjoy the show, and let others wear their fingers to the bone with the live stuff.

^__^

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Hot tea or hot chocolate usually helps me when I'm coming down with a sore throat. :-)

And I'm trying the whole constant-updating live-blogging thing at my journal, so if anyone wants to come snicker at my fledgling efforts, you're all welcome. lol

[ex-krazycat651.livejournal.com]

Please add this to a linkspam in the future:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/02/foo.html
Rock band Foo fighters are supporting Alive & Well, an organisation that not only claims that there are no real link between HIV and AIDS, but also that HIV medication in fact causes AIDS, and people shouldn't be taking them.

The so-called evidence of the group has been refuted time and time again, and the fact that the band are performing shows where the organisation gets to speak to young and easily influented people really upsets me.

A couple more links about it in my lj (http://krazycat.livejournal.com/582445.html)

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

As much as I love me some Jon Stewart, I am not watching the Oscars this year. I have just spent the entire weekend at the BJCC, working a booth at the Cottontail Arts and Crafts Festival.

Next to people playing the Aladdin soundtrack.

For ten hours a day.

For three days.

I'm going to go dull my pain with a margarita and, God willing, sleep like the dead. I am relying on your recap to fill me in on the Stewardy goodness.

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

And putting Keira next to Jack is just rubbing it in.

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

While Keira is teh awesome, and Reese is almost a shoe-in (is that how that's spelled?) let's not forget Huffman for Transamerica. That role blew me away, far more so than Reese or Keira, whom I love.

My money is on Huffman, but Reese will probably scoop it.

cheers

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I hope someone reading this knows where I can eventually find online clips of the montages in the Oscars tonight. I love montages.

[stella-gold.livejournal.com]

So Crash won over Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture, but Brokeback Mountain and its "twang...twang...twangtwangtwang" soundtrack won for Best Score? Did I miss something here?