Unacceptance Speech
I don’t watch the Oscars because, as I told Clown Coffee, while it’s fun for people to pretend that I am gay, I am not actually gay. More importantly, I’m just so tired of this ritualized spectacle of commercial obeisance, where a nation bows its head to the holy market. It’s a chance for a money-hungry industry to pride itself on its artistic integrity while blatantly ignoring any actual artistry that might actually be being expressed within its confines. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised this morning to open the local paper and discover that for once in Hollywood’s life, they actually gave credit where credit was due, and awarded this much coveted prize to a highly deserving work.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR OSCAR, HAPPY FEET.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:34 am
WHATS WAS UP WITH BOYENCE”S DRESS? ITS LIKE, FUCK!!
February 26th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Penguins = Minstrels
Happy Feet = Racist
Read your maths.
February 27th, 2007 at 3:44 am
i think you should go back to alienating your readers.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:36 am
don’t worry, he still is.
February 27th, 2007 at 8:26 am
…and yet you still claim you aren’t gay.
February 27th, 2007 at 9:16 am
I’ve gotta be honest here, most of the time I have no fucking clue what any of you are talking about including worker….but as long as people keep writing blogs that are sort of funny every once in awhile, I’ll read them while I’m at work.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:15 am
I’ve already UNSUBSCRIBED! Please stop existing so I won’t be forced to actively come to this site to whine about you.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
jenn i’m going to steal your comment and uuse it in other blogs, it’s a very true statement and very useful in today’s world.
you can alternate between that one and “i see what you did there” and then all the bad jokes and mumb0-jumbo and failied snaps are thus totally powned. Lena.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Once again I am totally confused…but something tells me it’s not because I’m an idiot
February 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
the point is you’re saying something real without acting like a clown. (but the counter-argument would be, if not that, what’s the point of a comments section on a ha-ha blog? and your counterargument to that might be “well i like to read balogs at work. and write comments’. then someone might bel ike “well then cant we all just do our thing.” i think that’s where i’m at, but then sometimes the urgbe to cap on people rises.)
February 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
The Oscars represented our collective triumph over materialism because Jennifer Hudson wasn’t selling anything besides the achievement of The American Dream. She also represented the death of racism — the proof was the award she got for Best Supporting Actress. If America was still racist she couldn’t have worn that hideous metallic jacket and gotten an Oscar.
This cynical post might just be a continuation of “Try and Alienate as Many Readers,” but I think there’s was a way to keep your Oscars coverage funky and edgy while still admitting that the acknowledgment of accomplishments made by Homosexuals, Blacks, and Jews are an important function of the Academy Awards.
If films and minorities didn’t get Oscar nominations how would I know they were worth anything?
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
“That’s why I was pleasantly surprised this morning to open the local paper and discover that for once in Hollywood’s life, they actually gave credit where credit was due, and awarded this much coveted prize to a highly deserving work.”
what an earnest way of putting it
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