NDBT

Hold on. 

First off – Bush was a lame duck president the first 9 months of his tenure. He couldn’t get a bill through congress if he had wanted to – which was why he took vacation for a huge chunk of that time. Because of September 11^th, Bush acquired unheard-of levels of power, eroded civil rights, started 2 wars, and increased our national debt by trillions. So thanking Osama shows an absolute lack of understanding of how the world works. 

Secondly, you want to thank someone for nearly 3000 deaths? Leaving more than 3000 children without a parent? Exposing hundreds, if not thousands, of rescue workers to critical levels of air pollution? That, to me, shows a complete disregard for human life and lack of common decency. Asshole. 

Ok – I feel somewhat better now. 

Man, I laughed till I cried with the Daily Show coming back. Yaaay! Also – did I miss this in all the Craig coverage, or was the DS the only one to show it?

Ack – I have 3 movies rented tonight that are due back tomorrow. I smell late fees. (I started watching His Girl Friday the other night, but then 4 people came into the living room and started talking, so I had to put that on hold. I kinda need to hear the dialogue on that one.) Also – if I come in and say “yay! the daily show is back from a 2 week vacation! I’m so excited! It’s my favorite show!” does that sound like, “please try to talk to me now. I’m not listening to anything.” I mean, really. I’m around all evening, but I just want to be left alone for 20 minutes during the Daily show – is that so much to ask?

The creative arts emmy winners. Why you should care; the guest winners – Leslie Caron (man – I SO want to see that ep of SVU), Stanley Tucci, Elaine Stritch, and John Goodman. Dexter won for its BRILLIANT opening titles sequence (getting ready in the morning is creepy, no matter who you are, but particularly if you are a serial killer). Planet Earth won 4 awards, including cinematography and best non-fiction series. Mom – you’ll be happy to know Jane Eyre won 2. And the Office won best single-camera editing (yay!). 

I also really like that House won for outstanding prosthetic make-up. (The non-prostheitc make-up went to Deadwood). How I Met your Mother won outstanding art direction for a multi-camera series (huh what now?). Corteo (which I have seen twice – I LOVE Cirque) won for picture editing for a special. South Park got outstanding <1 hr animated program for Make Love, Not Warcraft. The ‘my musical’ ep of scrubs got an award. CSI got best sound mixing (CSI gets no love – seriously. Oh well – they all make millions upon millions). 

And apparently the creative arts emmys gives out a commercial award? Now I want to see the AmEx – Animals ad.   

I forget if I already posted this, but Tash showed it to me. I think it’s her wee Dublin accent that cracks me up. 

Oh so true (fugging Shia).  

Monday Morning Poll: Does a Hollywood Strike Concern You? 

From Cleolinda: 

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