Every year for a few days after the Oscar telecast I walk around muttering my own personal acceptance speech under my breath. I think about who I would thank and what I would say, how I would use that world stage to express gratitude for the people in my life who helped me along the [...]
I had this little yellow black and white TV in my bedroom when I was a kid. I have no idea where it came from, I don’t know whose it was before it was mine. It was this small sorry little thing with bent antennas and about two channels that would barely come through (after [...]
We here at The Devil’s Avocado know that everyone likes to rip A-listers down from their pedestals, and we all know that we know better than the Academy.
Here’s your chance. During the Oscars broadcast, Janine and I will be posting comments to this post right as the thoughts rattle into our heads. Now, we [...]
If only we could get a repeat performance of this on Sunday’s telecast of the 81st annual Academy Awards. Instead, multiple song-and-dance numbers courtesy of Hugh Jackman will cut into the time afforded to acceptance speeches. And, of course, a little thing called the FCC always gets in the way of anything truly spontaneous from [...]
I do a pretty wicked Kermit the Frog. I mean, it’s beyond good. I recently sang “Rainbow Connection” on karaoke night at a bar; when I finished, people’s mouths lolled agape until they exploded with applause. I got a standing ovation, and I can’t even sing. Yeah, it’s THAT amazing, and perhaps my vocal masterpiece [...]
A response to “I Call Bullshit on you, Rob - Gran Torino is no masterpiece“
At least with movies, I see it going something like this: there’s “complete fucking horseshit awful” and then there’s “crap” and then there’s “meh” or “ooooookay” and then “pretty good” and “good” and “very good” before we get to “excellent”. ”Great” [...]
A Response to “Gran Torino is a masterpiece, the feel-good comedy of the year“
I don’t want to argue semantics (ok. that’s a lie, I do), but there is little else in the article with which I can find any disagreements. Gran Torino is a fine film. It’s a great movie, even. I’ll even go so [...]
At the very least, I feel comfortable saying that - Gran Torino is a masterpiece. I know it. And, yeah, right now I think it might be my favorite movie of 2008. “Favorite”, not “best”. Not necessarily. But maybe it is. Who knows. It sort of doesn’t matter to me.
I’d been thinking lately that 2008 [...]
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