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Menzel and Travolta #Oscars2015 @NewYorker pic.twitter.com/PkiBDAalf7
— lizadonnelly (@lizadonnelly) February 23, 2015

Milan resident and New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly was live-drawing the Oscars on Sunday and yes, live-drawing is a thing and if it seems hard to do, it is because it is.

And it is awesome.

Despite some anger, everything is awesome

Remember when I had a column in *print* and of course I wrote about cats but one time I wrote that the angry Kingston mayor is angry?

He's ( •_•)
still ( •_•)>⌐■-■
angry (⌐■_■)
and running out of people to get angry about LOLOLOL but srrsly don't be angry.

It's not a good look, and you might get caught on camera one day. Ask your predecessor.

Talking about angry things, I hope you bought glitter to sent it to your enemies with http://shipyourenemiesglitter.com/ because now you can't sorry.

But enough of that. After all, everything is awesome.
Let's see:



'Everything is AWESOME!!!" has an Oscar nomination and that's awesome.

Esquire wanted to end 'awesome' at the beginning of 2014 and it didn't work and that's awesome.

Robert Plant is to perform at Mountain Jam, which already has the Black Keys lined up, and that's awesome.

The Freeman's pet contest is back and that's awesome.

Yesterday's #DFMchat was about how to improve posting things to Facebook and it ended with "I HAVE SPECIAL EYES" and that's awesome.

A New York Times headline says you have to do this to fall in love with anyone and that's awesome and/or a total over-promising headline don't do that Gray Lady I love you but c'mon.

Now that I think about it, the Lego Movie didn't get an Oscar nod and that's not awesome.

It's okay. Made my own! pic.twitter.com/kgyu1GRHGR
— philip lord (@philiplord) January 15, 2015

Nevermind. That's awesome.

One awesome cat:



One awesome Google Glass photo since it's movie season: I'm pretty sure you recognize these ladies.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is an random  awesome experiment in which I throw in a bunch of awesome links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the awesome morning. You also get an awesome cat and an awesome Google Glass photo. Hello new ~subscribers~! Tell your friends to sign up. OR I'LL SEND YOU GLITTER.

Melissa Leo's Oscar acceptance speech

Oh my, oh my God. Oh wow really, really, really, really, really, truly wow. I know there's a lot of people that said a lotta real real nice things to me for several months now, but I'm just shaking in my boots here. Ok, alright. Thank you David O. Russell. I want to thank the actors, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, he might run out for a second, Amy, my sweet sister Adams, Jack, our lovely daughters. OK. Yeah, I am kind of speechless. Golly sakes, there's people up there too. When I watched Kate two years ago, it looked so [EXPLETIVE DELETED] easy. Alice Ward, your beautiful family that opened your hearts. I saw Mick here earlier. Dick, a shout out for Nana? Alright Dick's not in the room. Thank you so much, opening your hearts to all of us to make this film. I thanked David, I'll thank him again. My family, my beautiful son who is traveling right now in South America and can't join me. It's ok, I'm ok Jack. My Mom and my Dad and my brother and my friends and my family. I want to thank the very most of all, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences, the Board of Governors, and all their members, whom many of you are here today. This has been a extraordinary journey in getting to know what the Academy is about and first and foremost, thank you Academy, because it's about selling motion pictures and respecting the work! Thank you so much.

Oscar tweethathon at 8 p.m. Sunday

Join us on Sunday at 8 p.m. for a smorgasbord of Oscar-related tweets featuring live insights from interviewer of the stars and author Martha Frankel (who also is participating at "A Night at the Awards" at the Emerson Resort); New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly; Timmian Massie, Chief Public Affairs Officer and Adjunct Professor of Communication and Religious Studies at Marist College; social media expert Allison Gray Teetsel; our friends at the Watershed Post; Rhinebeck writer Kitty Sheehan; TechCity's Paul Rakov; and yours truly.

If you want your insights to appear, just post a comment below or tweet using the hashtag #dfoscars.

UPDATE! I've added Monique Paturel, and New Haven Register entertainment editor Jordan Fenster and television editor and columnist Joe Amarante.

I'm also adding #nhoscars. We're going to make this a multi-state event!

UPDATE 2: Playwright David J. Loehr will join from Kentucky and our entertainment friends at the New Haven Register in Connecticut. I'm also adding a Tweetizen feed for ease of access.

Did Melissa Leo change her story on the Oscar ads?

The Huffington Post is reporting in a story titled "Melissa Leo Changes Her Story On Oscar Ads" that the Stone Ridge actress and Academy-nominee "went along with Paramount's agenda."

This stems from the now controversial ads that she took and paid to have in the Hollywood trade press, promoting herself.

The Huffington Post bases its conclusion on a story reported by The Daily Beast, "Melissa Leo Breaks Oscar Silence," by Jacob Bernstein, in which Leo says:

“I’ve been busting my ass, trying to get the movie sold and seen, and now I show up where they ask, get put into hair and makeup that they pay for, so I can promote this thing [and campaign]. So I’m a little confused. I thought this is what we’re doing. This is what all the girls are doing.”

The Huffington Post uses the aforementioned quote, but fails to notice THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE:

Leo adds that she conceived the ads before she was nominated—and if she had known she would wind up in contention for Best Supporting Actress, she might have done things differently. “It didn’t seem so nomination oriented,” she said. “It was fun.”

Emphasis mine. FAIL by Huffington Post.

However, note that the both the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast write that Leo was a frontrunner, and that things are not so clear anymore. Bottom line is, we'll find out on Sunday.

Yet, one comment on the Huffington Post sums up all this pretty neatly:

“I thought the Academy Awards were supposed to be about talent, not good or ill-concei­ved ad campaigns? Why is the focus on her ads and not on the quality of her acting in her role?”

Why, indeed.