Oscar, oscar!

[hildy89]

Oscars are done with and I was mostly pleased with the results. Helen Mirren looked dazzling and thank god Jennifer Hudson took off the ugly shrug inside the auditorium. I didn't like Nicole Kidman's neck bow thingy, no matter what the commentators said. The E! people had their own telestrator like football play by play. If you're going to play a fashionista, Meryl Streep, you'd think you'd look just a little more glam. The men mostly played it safe. I adored the tribute to the struggle of writing and the little choir of Mr. Foleys (What, Wenn fans? You weren't thinking that?), but there were a few too many montages and tributes and etcs. The show really dragged in places.

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[majkia.livejournal.com]

what show? ::blink::

There were VAMPIRES on Dresden Files. What ELSE was nearly as important!!!!!

[jordannamorgan]

Incidentally, I thought of you and your challenging commutes when I was reading one of my latest "Saint" books, which begins in Washington. Maybe you'll appreciate this line:

He was getting tired of being bumped and shoved by individuals who seemed to get the idea that the "D.C." after Washington meant "disregard courtesy."

[hildy.livejournal.com]

Obviously the Saint was riding the Metro... when was this written?

[jordannamorgan]

In 1944. It's very much a wartime story. My review of it is up at saint_fans.

[hildy.livejournal.com]

Ah. That makes sense then. DC really changed during the wartime era. Everyone converged on the city to work for the gov't. Before it was just a sleepy Southern town. And you can still hear traces of that in the radio broadcasts of the time. When I listened to the D-Day broadcasts awhile back, a news commentator was describing a nearly empty intersection and saying how DC didn't really wake up until 8am! Some things have changed.