My 2010 Oscar Predictions!

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Music (Original Score): The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Animated Feature Film: Up, Pete Docter
Costume Design: Nine, Colleen Atwood
Writing (Original Screenplay): The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal
Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Visual Effects: Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Film Editing: Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
Sound Mixing: Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Art Direction: Avatar, Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
Short Film (Animated): Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Documentary (Feature): Food, Inc., Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
Sound Editing: Star Trek, Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Makeup: Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Foreign Language Film: Ajami, Israel
Documentary (Short Subject): The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
Music (Original Song): The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), from "Crazy Heart" Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Short Film (Live Action): Miracle Fish, Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Up in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Directing: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow


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-Greg

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Short film by Where the Wild Things Are folks...

The Vampire Attack from We Love You So on Vimeo.

Very Gay Tony...

Just not sure how I feel about this...

Video Games | GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony | Tony Prince Trailer HD

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

MTV VMA's 2009 - Taylor Swift gets Humiliated by Kanye West

This is an excerpt from an IM conversation that took place as I watched this...

- watching the Kanye thing now

- she's walking up

- all seems fine so far

- nice background music

- ugh

- I don't like country music

- OMG

- what is he doing?

- WHAT IS HE DOING?

- WHY WOULD YOU GRAB THE MIC?

yeah...

True tales of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton

The American Prospect reviewed some books about Wal-Mart and discovered this wonderful tale about Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton treatment of his employees

Around the time that the young Sam Walton opened his first stores, John Kennedy redeemed a presidential campaign promise by persuading Congress to extend the minimum wage to retail workers, who had until then not been covered by the law. Congress granted an exclusion, however, to small businesses with annual sales beneath $1 million -- a figure that in 1965 it lowered to $250,000.

Walton was furious. The mechanization of agriculture had finally reached the backwaters of the Ozark Plateau, where he was opening one store after another. The men and women who had formerly worked on small farms suddenly found themselves redundant, and he could scoop them up for a song, as little as 50 cents an hour. Now the goddamn federal government was telling him he had to pay his workers the $1.15 hourly minimum. Walton's response was to divide up his stores into individual companies whose revenues did not exceed the $250,000 threshold. Eventually, though, a federal court ruled that this was simply a scheme to avoid paying the minimum wage, and he was ordered to pay his workers the accumulated sums he owed them, plus a double-time penalty thrown in for good measure.

Wal-Mart cut the checks, but Walton also summoned the employees at a major cluster of his stores to a meeting. "I'll fire anyone who cashes the check," he told them.

The "values" of Wal-Mart, the largest private-sector employer in the U.S., are shaping our national economy -- and that's a very bad thing. (Via WashPost)

Kathy Griffin and George Takei Star in "Kate is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story"

Cool Halo 3 ODST live action trailer

Note to self: disrespecting Office of US President during Joint Session - bad idea

Bangarang!

President Obama delivers eulogy at Ted Kennedy's Funeral Mass

Very fitting and wonderful speech