Tuesday, March 7

Gummin' it

Your friendly private eye took extreme measures to find the perfect oscar-viewing venue. Calls were made, arms were twisted and home entertainment centers devised so that yours truly could indulge her bizarre wish to participate in this meaningless ritual.
Forgive me if I offend, for I missed at least a third of the ceremony, but what was that? There was no feast for the eyes, no banquet of delights to be found on ABC Sunday evening. It was the equivalent of a soft foods diet. Everything felt pre-masticated.
The interpretive dance set to "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" seemed like a KIDS Incorporated skit from over a decade ago.



Come on people, you can do a little better than that. Sure, Reese gave a sweet little speech. We all knew that was coming and that it would be perfectly calculated for effect.

I wanted the real deal: a genuine gaffe, drunken speech or something. So, Crash won Best Picture and Jack Nicholson raised his legendary brows. At the end of the ceremony we still wondered aloud, is that all there is?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey gummy
pimp dance scene was seriously lame, but woke up singing about the hardness of pimps after watching the movie before bed last night....yikes
Also,just got my birthtime info, etc.
lets skate
Call me

cassondra said...

Agreed. It is one catchy tune. It works great for mad libs lyrics. We have enjoyed adaptations such as "You know it's hard out here for a pooch
tryin' not to be a mooch..."you get the idea.
we'll talk soon.

highdesertsultan said...

sorry we didn't make it.
i got into something that i couldn't get out of. didn't get out of.

highdesertsultan said...

ha... Kids Incorporated.

that's awesome

cassondra said...

Even Better--In my search for a KIDS INC. photo I discovered that Fergie of "my humps" fame was on the show.

highdesertsultan said...

yeahhhhhhhh!