1. I am overjoyed that Sean Penn won Best Actor. While I haven�t seen Mystic River he is always great on film and, in my estimation, the best actor of his generation�which just happens to be the same generation as mine, but I swear I don�t look anywhere near that weathered. I swear. He should have won the Oscar for Dead Man Walking of course, or even for Sweet and Low Down, but during those years Oscar was busy giving someone else an award because they failed to give it to them during the year they may have actually deserved it. You know, Oscar is like that � always trying to make up for past sins. So in essence it doesn�t even matter if Sean deserves the award this year. The fact that everyone leapt to their feet to give him an immediate standing ovation actually choked me up a bit. I didn�t think he�d win, you see. He hasn�t won many of the other acting awards this year and the Academy has a thing about attempting to avoid controversy. I figured he wouldn�t win just because the Academy would be anxious that he�d make a controversial statement, especially during this time of Post-Janet�s-Boob-Moral-Hysteria. Well, plus Sean has never even showed up at the awards show before and Oscar don�t play �dat. He must have let it slip that he was actually going to show up this time.

� I love me some Johnny Depp, but the truth is he doesn�t deserve an acting Oscar for his performance as a pirate in drag. He was entertaining in that role, yes�but an Oscar? I am just shocked that he won the Screen Actor�s Guild award for that part, but his winning that award had convinced me he�d also win the Oscar.

� I thought Bill Murray to be extremely childish in his reaction to not winning. At first I thought he just must be joking�but upon repeated views, I figured out he was not. Or didn�t appear to be. And while I haven�t seen Lost in Translation yet and I love me some Bill Murray, don�t get me wrong�come on, dude. You lost to Sean Penn. Is that really even a defeat? I say anyone who starred in Meatballs is damn lucky he was even invited to the Academy Awards, let alone nominated for one.

2. I thought everyone, for the most part, looked lovely. I can�t figure out why so many people are all ga-ga for Jennifer Garner, but then I have never understood her allure. She�s a cute gal, but�so? Maybe it�s because I don�t watch Alias�And while her gown last night was lovely, I didn�t find it any more lovely than anyone else�s. But then, I kind of liked Uma Thurman�s goofy, quasi-Asian get-up, so what do I know?

3. Renee Zellwegger makes me want to projectile vomit. I usually like her in movies (although I prefer not to look at her face, with those scrunched-up eyes and puffy lips. John and I make fun of her consistently), but in real life she just seems so insincere and fake. That modesty don�t fly if it�s not genuine, chica. All of that stupid posing and posturing and �Who me? I just can�t believe it�� just gave me the squirts. And who was that big fat guy she was with?

4. Billy Crystal was nowhere near as funny as he has been in the past. I did laugh out loud at his song wherein he asked Clint Eastwood (while sitting on Clint�s lap, I might add) not to sing again. However, why can we see his naked, scrawny ass but the world freaks out at the half-second site of Janet�s well-taken-care-of-and-attractively-surgically-enhanced boob?

5. Jack Black and Will Ferrell were hilarious. Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller also elicited a few chortles from me.

I have no opinion on anything else, including LOTR�s winning 11 awards, because I haven�t actually seen any of the nominated films. Most of them came out in like December, after all. It will be Spring before I see them, if history shows us anything. As far as Lord of the Rings goes�well, I still haven�t seen the second film in that trilogy. I honestly wasn�t all that thrilled with the first one, so I just haven�t gotten around to it, yet. Sue me.

Since John decided not to come down for the weekend, I did little aside from watching the Oscars. Well, I ate a lot (and I mean A LOT), but aside from that, I slept a lot, cleaned the Rad Pad, did one load of laundry before I ran out of quarters, went for a seven-mile walk on Sunday and�smoked a lot of mota. Oh and I slept a lot.

Hey, I am nothing if not ambitious.

Actually, I think I was really due for that much rest. The cold I�ve been struggling with the past couple of weeks really tuckered me out. I feel oodles better now.

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Word of the Day for Monday March 1, 2004

tenet TEN-it, noun:

Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine that a person holds or maintains as true.

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