I watched the ending. I don't really care anymore. I was glad a lot of the cute comedy bits were thrown up on YouTube right away. They did a great montage of cowboy movies that made them all look like Brokeback Mountain, and all cowboy movies are a little homoerotic anyway. So I liked that bit.

I'll tell ya, though, living in LA, the oscars means that you take the day and do something out of town. Traffic is insane for the whole week because Hollywood Blvd is closed get the whole red carpet facade ready for the front of the Kodak. People go into this frenzy and have all these parties so the evening after the show there's tons of drunk drivers all over the roads. I'm a little jadded.

And about the show itself. I'm glad the rap groups are allowed to swear on the live awards show without any kind of reprimand. I'm sure if Reese Witherspoon got her award and said "Wow, this is pretty fuckin' sweet!" she would have been ostracized and never asked back. It would be in all the papers and there would be a huge scandal. And when Bjork wore that swan dress people make all kinds of fun of her, but these rappers can wear football jerseys and bling bling and look like they just stumbled out of a cheap nightclub, but that's okay. Why should they have to put on something nice? It's only the oscars.