The Oscars: 2012 Edition

Ok, really. Other than Christopher Plummer finally winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, as for the rest of the Academy Awards (aka "Hollywood Elitist and Millionaires Patting Themselves on the Backs Night") Who cares?! Not only do these Tinseltown Bubble Elitists (TBE's) have absolutely no idea what goes on beyond their entourages and "Yesmen," besides what they're told and read in their gossip rags (assuming that they see their own names in it) but they make worse and worse movies year after year.

I can name a handful of actors that can actually act, but they usually stay out of the spotlight, so the attention then goes to other celebrities who Hollywood thinks we give a rat's ass about. And when we don't care, they try and tell us that we do. There's a reason why movies suck now and re-hashing television shows and now flicks based on board games isn't going to change that.

Hours and and hours of boring, "Look how great we are" television, telling people to go to the movies more while honoring movies no one knows or cares about isn't going to garner you ratings, fans or ticket sales. Here's a novel idea: Make better movies!! I know. What a concept, huh?

Anyway, if your interested for some reason as to who won these seemingly inconsequential statuettes, here's the run down.

Gary Carter Dead at 57

Not only is this perhaps number two of the three of "celebrities" to pass within the last few days (although Gary Carter had more class and was most certainly not a vain whiny know-it-all like most famous personalities these days) but Gary Carter was my favourite baseball player. I used to love to watch him play with the Montreal Expos growing up. I even was lucky enough to see him play at Olympic Stadium in my very first Major League ball game on a trip to Montreal in 1981. It was the year of the Expos' phenomenal pennant run in that strike-shortened split season. It sure was awesome to see the Great #8 play live. I'm also glad he went back to the Expos and played his final year there in 1992 before they were sold and moved to Washington. Gary Carter, the three-time Golden Glove and two-time All-Star MVP succumbed to brain cancer at the all-too-young age of 57.

That's two of my childhood favourites to pass in the last year or so. It probably won't be long before they're all gone. That's when you really examine your own mortality. Bummer.

Whitney Houston Dead at 48

Pop star Whitney Houston, who had become more famous in the last decade or so for her problems with domestic violence and drug abuse than her singing and songwriting has died. She was 48.

You Want Superheroes, You Got Superheroes

Woolley Mammoth Found Alive?

So by now you've all probably heard that some Russian government-employed engineer shot some footage of a supposed woolly mammoth (that have been extinct for 4,000 years) last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia.



It's a bear, folks. A big damn bear with a fish in it's mouth. Case closed.

Lightsaber Duels

I'm bored. So I thought I would just put together the best STAR WARS lightsaber battles. Which is to say all of them. Plus, there's a little bonus at the end.
I was contemplating which order to put them in. Chronologically? (episodes I-VI) or in order in which I saw them originally? I decided to go with the latter, starting with Obi Wan Kenobi v/s Darth Vader in A New Hope.

I know others have done this, but I haven't...so there. Enjoy.

OBI WAN KENOBI v/s DARTH VADER


DARTH VADER v/s LUKE SKYWALKER I


DARTH VADER v/s LUKE SKYWALKER II


OBI WAN KENOBI & QUI GON GINN v/s DARTH MAUL


OBI WAN KENOBI & ANAKIN SKYWALKER v/s COUNT DOOKU, YODA v/s COUNT DOOKU


OBI WAN KENOBI & ANAKIN SKYWALKER v/s COUNT DOOKU II



OBI WAN KENOBI v/s GENERAL GRIEVOUS


MACE WINDU v/s EMPEROR PALPATINE


YODA v/s EMPEROR PALPATINE


OBI WAN KENOBI v/s ANAKIN SKYWALKER



And in case you haven't seen these (but what STAR WARS/YouTube geek hasn't?) check out these awesomely choreographed duels.










Pretty cool, huh?