Congratulations to Jeff Freeze, a resident of Burns Harbor, Indiana, and a blog reader since 2005, who won the 6th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool tonight — and set an all-time record in the process, with 74 out of a possible 80 points. Freeze got only six categories wrong, all worth one point apiece: Best Film Editing, Costume Design,… Read more »
My Oscar Live Blog / Live Chat — with live Oscar Pool results — is now underway. UPDATE: The liveblog is over, but you can read the whole thing after the jump. It starts with a cute baby picture!
Don’t forget, if you haven’t entered already, the deadline to enter my free Oscar Pool is 5:30 PM Mountain Time tonight. Then at 6:00, we’ll start our Live Blog / Chat (with live pool results). Enter the pool now & stop by tonight!
Here’s how Joe Lunardi assesses the bubble as of now. He’s got 33 teams as “locks,” including Louisville — which closed out historic Freedom Hall in memorable fashion by beating #1 Syracuse today — and Northern Iowa. Lunardi’s “bubble” consists of 22 teams competing for 11 spots, which he lists, in order, thusly: IN (11, in S-Curve order): Marquette, Wake… Read more »
A test explosion for a BBC documentary suggests that the “underpants bomber” would have failed to bring down Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, even if he’d managed to detonate his trousers. Likely death toll: 2, namely the bomber and the unlucky soul sitting next to him. A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar… Read more »
At the risk of being spammy, I just wanted to post another reminder to my vast (heh) audience of blog “fans” to enter my 6th annual Oscar Pool! It’s free, so if you don’t know anything about the nominees, no biggie — what do you have to lose? Just your pride, and who cares about that? 🙂 And if you… Read more »
I’ve created a Living Room Times Fan Page on Facebook. 🙂 If enough of my FB friends, and others who follow my blog, become “fans” of the LRT Page, my eventual plan is to make it the hub of all of my blog-related activity on Facebook, and cut back the blog stuff on my personal profile (like the endless stream… Read more »
Bubble guru Andy Glockner says Notre Dame’s win over UConn yesterday gives the Irish some much-needed “wiggle room” — and means UConn is in “a lot of trouble”: Notre Dame (20-10, 9-8, RPI: 61, SOS: 54): The Irish’s unexpected push without Luke Harangody continued on Wednesday with a so-ugly-it’s-beautiful home win over bubble rival UConn. Now even if the Irish… Read more »
Enter my 6th annual Oscar Pool!
None of the political leaders in Washington hold, or care about, the moral high ground when it comes to these sorts of procedural arguments. NONE OF THEM. They’re all hypocrites with respect to such arguments. ALL OF THEM. The majority always likes majoritarian procedures; the minority always hates them. The minority always likes procedures that preserve minority power; the majority… Read more »
