…of blogging. I miss my mornings. That bloody firewall…!
I miss the energy of getting up, coming into work, sitting down, full of coffee, ready for the day…and ready to vent about something in my blog.
This night-time version isn’t offering much in the way of inspiration. It’s been a long day in a long week, and the evenings don’t offer me the inspiration I usually have when the sun is rising.
I suppose I’ll have to get used to it, so I’ll leave you with a particular observation (one I very much agree with) from this past Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, courtesy of the CBC’s top 10 moments from the show:
SAY IT WITH A MONTAGE
After (host John) Stewart’s monologue came the evening’s wittiest poke at Brokeback Mountain, a compilation of not-at-all-gay moments in famous westerns. Surely John Wayne intended only the manliest of connotations in Rio Grande when he uttered the line: “I’ll have you spread-eagled on a wagon wheel.”
Unfortunately, this amusing gambit was followed by several montage sequences that paid exhaustive tribute to the biopic, the film noir, the liberal-message picture and the epic. The first made the most impact by including Faye Dunaway’s immortal cry of “No wire hangers ever!” from Mommie Dearest. Meanwhile, the list of “epics” was generous enough to include The Fifth Element. Claiming that “we’re literally out of film clips,” Stewart implored the public to replenish the supply. “I don’t care if they’re in Beta, just send them.”
