Random Bits, None of them Terribly Interesting


Wherein Our Heroine Has Nothing Much to Say.
Okay - old-fart "when I was a kid" rant coming up.

It is a wonder that anyone trusts a DC-area meteorologist any more. We were supposed to get Super! Big! Snow! overnight. Quelle surprise - not a flake. Area schools are closed, however - school closings were announced last night, on the strength of the weather reports. Now, I know we do things differently in New England, but this is ridiculous. Back in the 1970's, I can remember watching snow coming down, one ear cocked to WBZ radio as they read out gradually longer lists of schools all around the Boston area that were closed. Those decisions were made on the basis of real snow as it happened. The communications technology of AM radio and the eyeballing of actual snow worked pretty well. We may not have much better weather reporting, but we have better communications technology: you would think that the decision to cancel school might wait a bit until you saw - oh, I don't know - snow?

Oscars thoughts:

I'm afraid I will never forget the 1989 Oscars with the dancing stars and Rob Lowe and Snow White singing "Proud Mary." Nothing will ever live up to that surreality. Nothing. And thanks be to all the powers for that.

Wow - can someone tell Counting Crows that they should never perform live - ever? They sounded like a college bar band. And Adam - your wavering-voice thingy doesn't hide the flat notes. Ouch.

Chris Rock was good! I loved his comment about giving out Oscars in the parking lot next year. (Yes, the keep-it-moving techniques were fairly blatant).

To the live-action short film Oscar winner who referred to the award as "the dog's bollocks," bwahaha! Hee!

What was up with all of those 12-foot-tall models giving out statuettes and escorting people off of the stage?

I would like to thank my TiVo for the fact that I didn't have to sit through all of the awards. And congratulations to the only Oscar-winner whose movie I actually saw (yes, I actually saw another movie - in a theatre - last weekend. Please don't expire from shock, Dear Reader). Jamie, you were Ray Charles. Wow.
Posted: Monday - February 28, 2005 at 08:16 AM         | |

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