Stupid Awards.

Why, why isn’t Steve Martin funny anymore?

Oscars are on … ucky ucky. I don’t think I’ve watched these before .. and I have a strong feeling i wasn’t missing anything. What a crock. What a crock of wrong-winning, self-absorbed, unentertaining bullshit.

I was really looking forward to a little diversion from the gutwrenching war coverage today … but Mr Oscar ain’t it. Why am I even surprised …

Speaking of gutwrenching war coverage … I almost couldn’t take it today. It was like Sept. 12 all over again … when it’s still new, and they keep uncovering gruesome stuff, and you haven’t become immunized to it yet. They interviewed Hudson’s mother from New Mexico, and they showed footage of actual dead Iraquis, and I almost lost it.

I want this to be over.

In other news: I am so sick of people appropriating and remixing Simon and Garfunkel tunes to hawk Gap pants and insurance and shit. Take a perfectly good mellow song and turn it into crap. How awful. You know, Simon’s singing right now, at the awards.

I also saw a Penneys’ ad today, featuring the lyrics “I am a one-girl revolution,” or something to that effect. Right, all the demure blonde Rrrevolutionaries are gonna be fighting for freedom in pastel twinsets and matching capris from a discount department store. Ugh. Please. If you’re gonna go girlpower [and please … find a new fad cause] do it authentically. I want to see some fat women. Lesbians. Chicanas. Blacks. Asians. Ugly people. Intelligent people. Sympathetic men. Poor women. Pregnant teens. I do not want my revolution hogged by J.C. Penney catalog models.

Other things pissing me off: “12 U.S. military personnel were captured today, including a woman.” Why they gotta say that, “including a woman”? What’s the underlying motivation? Why not “12 soldiers were captured today, including 11 men.” Or “four brown-eyed people.” or “seven blonds.” If she’s in the military, she’s in the military, just like those guys. The whole “women and children first” thing …

On the other hand .. maybe it’s raising awareness of women’s increasing involvement in the military. We’re tough too. We get captured and fight for our country too. Hmm .. maybe it goes both ways. I haven’t decided.

Boy, am I cranky today.

March 23, 2003 | Filed Under auto-categorized