If it's good enough for the Bagger, it's good enough for me.  Let's put a bow on this puppy and wander off into the spring (if only the weather would get here, already).

If you're a lunatic, then you're already thinking about next year's Academy Awards ceremony.  But it's probably safe to say most clear-thinking individuals would like to move away from this crazy thing called Oscar for the next several months.  And so we shall.

It's been fun making a home at Variety.com.  I'm glad to see the trade take a stab at making sense of that wacky, ubiquitous Oscarweb, and I humbly appreciate the chance to bring a different shade of coverage when I could.  Hopefully you all enjoyed it, and perhaps we'll be right back here hitting the same stride again in, oh, eight or nine months.

For now, I seem to have found the only copy Guitar Hero III for the Wii in Los Angeles, and I have to go figure out how to land that blue fret on "Welcome to the Jungle."  Some things take precedence in one's life, film awards be damned.

Enjoy the leap day, and the year.  You know where to find me.


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