Life of Wry

I hate to say how many hours I devoted to watching the Oscars today… what with coverage of the Red Carpet, the actual show, and then the after parties… it was the better part of my Sunday. Lots of fun fashion, lots of stars, and all manner of awards handed out (or not) for movies we’d seen (saw all of them, I believe, so had plenty of skin in the game, or at least opinions and favorites). I can say I got some good exercise while watching: spent a solid hour of the show hiking uphill on my treadmill, and another good bit of time on my stationary bike! Spent another portion of the show sitting by the fire drinking a cold smoothie. Luxuriated in all of it. Watched on Hulu (which I had to subscribe to this afternoon in order to get the show at all). After three-plus hours, and at the moment the last two awards were to be handed out, Hulu’s coverage of the Oscars abruptly stopped (clearly an accident). This apparently and understandably outraged viewers from coast to coast, including me! Two of the most anticipated awards of the night… OMG! Thankfully, the news was readily available within minutes, and Youtube had clips up pretty fast, so all was well.

One of my favorite parts of the evening was when Mick Jagger came out to present the Oscar for best song. Don’t really remember the song (it was from Emilia Perez), but it was a gas to see him appear on stage. This isn’t much of a pic, but it’s the best I could snap as I was treadmilling along. He was really funny.