and the award goes to...

, seriously, Mike Huckabee. Did you see this cat on Saturday Night Live last night? Comedic brilliance. Great timing, great instincts. What more could you want in a president?

While watching the Oscars tonight (and having re-accrued much of my film & camera collection) i'm struck first, by how few movies i see anymore... (netflix, you're taking me for one this last year or so) I'm making my Oscar choices based on how much i wanted to see the movies this year, rather than any real sense of ... deservation...

Bravo Jon Stewart, on handing the gal from Once the chance to give her speech after the commercial break. And bravo Jon Stewart on not needing to go for a whole 'production' for the opening sequence. I think there's much value to getting an East-Coaster (read non-Californian for all intents & purposes) to host the Oscars... Conan, Ellen, Jon Stewart, hell, even Dave work this show in a way that Billy Crystal & Steve Martin were never able to...

Best this, best that... who really cares who we decide the best is today... It's hard for us to really keep much stock in what they decide today is the 'best' of anything... A best documentary award (which admittedly, i've seen none of the nominees) doesn't go to the film about Iraq (so cliche) or the film about healthcare in America (so Hillary), but the one about Afghanistan... the War we forgot we were in... lovely

And it's over... You know what i could really use. Is some after-Oscars commentary (i'm thinking Slavoj Zizek, Harriet Klausner & John Madden) sitting around a plastic table discussing who, in fact, won, who didn't... They could discuss how the filmmakers could have made the movies differently (better) if they wanted to win the award.

John Madden: Maybe if Sweeny Todd had gone with less singing, more serious themes, less Johnny Depp, they really might have had a shot this year.

Zizek: The problem a film work like Juno finds itself in, is the paradigm (pronounced pear-a-dig-m) of the violence and sex American-readWestern-culture finds itself drowning in is--

Harriet Klausner: I loved it. just loved it.

Madden: Which one?

Klausner: It was amazing, working on so many levels. Truly deep.

Zizek: Paradigm (pair-a-dig-em)

Klausner: Never have i seen a year of better Oscar contenders.

Madden: What happens, is the name of the film or actor that currently resides in the envelope these hosts, er presenters... these big stars are holding, the names in the envelopes, those guys will be the eventual winners... Once they've got that envelope, you know, barring a huge comeback of some kind, you've got your winner right there...

Klausner: Mr. Madden, please put your pants back on...

Zizek: (exit, pursued by a bear)

It seems like this'd make more sense to most people...