Random Monday Morning Thoughts: Oscar Intensive

• Everyone is criticizing Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin for their performance at the opening of the Oscars. I thought they were very funny.
• And Martin was able to throw in "I was born a poor, black child" joke. (From The Jerk.)
• The deceased director John Hughes montage last night was great. It was enough to give me Good Old Day Syndrome.
• Heard a lawyer in the Wise County courthouse the other day say, in reference so someone else, say "He's a good lawyer." The problem is that the speaker has no idea what he's doing so his praise made me chuckle.
• I'm losing my mind. I could have sworn that the villain in The Lovely Bones was Napoleon Dynamite's brother. Nope, not even close.
• There's a crooked cop in San Antonio in the War on Drugs and the DA's office down there is ethical enough to warn everyone about it. I know at least one prosecutor that wouldn't do that.
• Wheels Are Off: A Dallas lawyer is accused of murder in a case that involves drugs, all night parties and young women. (It's kind of long but worth it.)
• The most amazing thing about The Hurt Locker is that it's a movie about the war in Iraq that wasn't political. That's hard to do.
• My favorite Jeff Bridges' (last night's Best Actor winner) movie that no one has ever seen: 2004's The Door In The Floor.
• Baylor killed the Evil Empire on Saturday with one Bear recording 10 dunks. One UT blog referred to it as the "Longhorns vs. The Harlem Globetrotters."
• I get my tires rotated and balanced because I was feeling a vibration. Now the vibration is worse. That has to be a bad sign.
• Why did Tom Hanks rush out on stage and blurt out the Best Picture winner like he was late to something?
• Miley Cyrus's mom all tatted up last night.