L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

And the winner is…

March 7, 2010 on 11:41 pm | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Movies, Music

I don’t know why we bother. We put on an Oscars party every year, and every year it gets duller and duller. Not the party, but the Oscars. I had inexplicably high hopes for Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin – two funny guys. But NOOOOOO! Perhaps they took their cues from Avatar: Don’t waste a penny on the script.

Fortunately my friends are a resourceful bunch. We managed to sustain ourselves during the dry excesses of eye-rollingly insipid on-screen blather with excesses of snacks, champagne and… a theremin! We may have had the only Oscars party in the whole Puget Sound area with theremin accompaniment. Much to the cats’ distress.

Oh, and when did they go back to saying “And the winner is..”? I remember when they switched to “And the Oscar goes to…” That always smacked of the dreadful self-esteem mania that swept through the schools when my kids were growing up. God forbid there should be a winner because that would mean someone would have to be the loser. Good.