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Welcome back one and all for another edition of the Mustard. Hope you all had a lovely week as we lead up to:

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY!!!!

C’mon who’s not excited about Seattle vs. Pittsburgh? Ok, so a lot of people aren’t. But if America’s got one thing going for it, it’s that it can turn one little football game into a entertainment and marketing sports extravaganza the likes of which will only be surpassed by next year’s game.

Go Steelers!

Oh and the Rolling Stones? Honestly, you’re in freakin’ Motown and you go with the Rolling Stones. Have the Rolling Stones honestly been relevant to music in the past 20 years? I mean I’m not suggesting they should go with some pop teeny-bopper crapfest but at least get someone who’s only 10 years out of date. What’s REM doing?

Oscar noms are out and all I can say is: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Seriously, I can not imagine a more predictable and less exciting field. I’m not saying their necessary bad picks. But let’s face it, it’s been a crappy year for movies in general. There hasn’t been one single movie this year that I’ve thought was truly “great”. Last year I had both Garden State and Eternal Sunshine. Yeah, Batman Begins was excellent and Serenity was terrific but I didn’t walk out of them thinking wow, in 20 years that still might be one of my all-time favorite movies.

But a few opinions on the noms:

Congrats for George Clooney with 3 nominations. Is there honestly anymore just more likeable in all of Hollywood right now? He’s Cary Grant take II.

Fantastic picks in the animated feature category. Not one CGI film and TWO stop-motion. Guess the academy does still pay some attention to quality.

No special effects nom for Star Wars? The hell?

How did Sin City not get either special effects or cinematography or especially makeup (TOTAL BS that Cinderella Man got one over it)? Oh right, the Academy’s pissed at Robert Rodriguez for quitting so that he could give Frank Miller a co-director credit.

Kind of surprised Capote beat out Walk the Line for a best picture nod.

Hey Russell Crowe, next time don’t throw the cell phone. Then you won’t get snubbed.

Graphic Novels are starting to become a more respectable source of material between this year’s History of Violence and Sin City, such past ones as Road to Perdition and the upcoming V for Vendetta. Now if Watchmen could just get off the ground.

News and Notes:

The OC has been marginally better (haha, they killed off Johnny. Thought watch, he’ll just end up in a coma or something) but it’s still not a must see.

Veronica Mars is definitely a must see. Holy crap this show is good. Watch it people!

Rather slow week for notes.

STRIP

Until next time:

“Hey, Dr. Cox. You wanna put in for some lottery tickets?”
“Oh gosh, Carla! I would, I really would! But you see, I already set fire to a big pile of money just this morning!”