Welp, the Oscar posts are done. I would like to thank God and Janelle Monáe for getting me through this. And thank y'all so much for all the support in the previous entry and everywhere else--I ended up kind of taking the day off from recapping/storifying of any kind, so I'm now about two days behind on the Hannibal recap. So it is coming; the ( Read more... )

Okay, things are about to get hellaciously (hella?) busy the next couple of weeks, sooooo let me lay it all out:

Yesterday was the #13HourDevour Hannibal marathon--I broke down and got the Amazon Prime free trial for other reasons, and it turned out to be a pretty good way to stream the show and watch along, although a lot of folks were using ( Read more... )

I'm going to go ahead and call off the liveblog now because I hurt my back Wednesday morning--not horribly, but a really persistent, painfully uncomfortable strain in my lower back. The kind where it's not like you need surgery or something... but you need a lot of ice and a lot of lying very still. I can't even get into a good position to read a ( Read more... )

Another montage of actors explaining what movies mean to them. What a wonderful break for my fingers. I have three Tagalongs left; I'm pacing myself. ( Read more... )

Billy Crystal informs us that Michael Douglas was Occupying Wall Street before it was cool, and I just don't even have the strength to think of a way to turn that into a hipster joke. ( Read more... )

"Front row, you know what I'm thinking? Why don't we chip in and buy the Dodgers?" ( Read more... )

Billy Crystal: "I have this gift where I can look at anyone in the audience and tell you what they're thinking." I literally groaned out loud, y'all. I could not stop myself. WHY DON'T YOU TELL US? ( Read more... )

I'm not even dignifying this Melissa McCarthy seducing Billy Crystal in a pink robe bit with one more second of my time. It's to introduce Ben Stiller and a statuesque Emma Stone, who has a massive red bow vampiring her neck, presenting Visual Effects. "This is my first time presenting an award!" she oozes, basking in the stage lights. She is about ( Read more... )

Kermit and Miss Piggy in the balcony. Because why not. ( Read more... )

"That win for Octavia Spencer is what the Oscars is all about," says Crystal, who is not at this moment wearing blackface, and then makes a joke about how he wanted to hug the first black person he saw after he saw The Help and was in an area where there were no black people ( Read more... )