Oscar Pool Results 2009

broderic on February 23, 2009

So it’s late night after the show. I forgot about Jimmy Kimmel, but spent the later part of the midnight drinking a cherry coke and tabulating results. I bet you’re all on edge. But first, let me thank the academy, my mom and dad, the producers, the craftspeople, rod and ness and most of all the seed for live blogging the telecast. He did a bang up job with the blow by blow. Read it and experience our night at the oscars.

Oh yeah I forgot. Thanks for all my participants: the seed, CapSwell, riss, dace, Marge, Annie, and Wyman. You make it fun.

So the winners are: Drumroll pleases!

Winner of the Special Jury Prize of picking the most 1 pointers: Annie!!! She does by being the only one to pick the live action short and the foreign film and by being one of two with the correct choice in costume. She takes it with 10 points! Most of the rest of us had 6! Good job.

She gets to choose any of the animated feature films on DVD!

Runner up is Wyman! 24 points! He ruled the two pointers in the early evening, but was only average in the others. Could’ve gone his way, but for Sean Penn.

He gets his choice of the best picture nominees.

The winner and still reigning champion, riss! 26 points! Sean Penn FTW! Congratulations. How the heck do you get so good?

She gets her choice of any nominated film. I hope I can find it for her!

The rest of us suck. It’s later than I want it to be, so we’ll find out more rankings tomorrow. As a whole we did pretty well. Only categories we missed completely were best supporting actress and animated short. Woohoo good job.

**** UPDATE ****
Here’s a link to the tallies. They show all received entries in the sub totals, but only the accepted entries in the totals. Enjoy!!!!! http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTj2DeezQPze5P4223RV8bw

Oscar Pool Totals

broderic on February 23, 2009

Not doing them until tomorrow, but the Wyman is running away with this currently. Why!?!!?!?Drop by the seed for some live blogging. Sent from my iPhone

Quote of the Day [2.21.09]

broderic on February 21, 2009

“I get a ticket, I pay it. You get a ticket, you pay it. They get a ticket, they don’t pay no ticket, and that’s why these free-loading foreign diplomats should be dragged out of their cars and beaten like the renegade outlaws they are.”

Bill McNeal (Phil Hartman), NewsRadio, “French Diplomacy”

Oscar Pool Update Episode IV: A New Hope

broderic on February 20, 2009

We’re going into the weekend and it looks like the ballots are set. Hope everyone is making the right choices. Good luck.

View the current entries. Hopefully, I’ve hidden your email addrs from everyone so that you don’t get that crazy spam I’ve been getting wherein I complain about the tightness of my shorts.

Amgen Tour of California 2009

broderic on February 20, 2009


Amgen Tour of California 2009 – Prologue
Originally uploaded by Darcy McCarty.
I forgot to mention that the cycling season is starting to ramp up. Here’s a shot from this year’s Tour of California. It’s Tom Boonen running the TT. I just love this guy.

I was looking for a field sprint, but it seems the photogs on Flickr don’t have too many shots of a stage finish. So, here’s Boonen cranking for decent TT finish.

If you look at the 2009 Tour of California starting line up, you’ll find an amazing mass of professionals. Besides the Belgian rocket, Boonen, you’ll see Lance Armstrong suited up for Astana as he begins his climb back into the professional cycling saddle. You have Levi Leipheimer leading this years tour. Then you have the british sprint phenom, Mark Cavendish, taking wins in field sprints. Boonen stop this guy! Lots of Americans: Hincapie, Landis, Hamilton (Aren’t these guys banned for using banned substances?) It’s actually a monster Tour. I should’ve set my Tivo.