The Living Room Times

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 happen to win, you can join the pantheon of heroes who’ve achieved eternal glory in the previous five pools: Vlada Shelkova (2009), Lisa Velte (2008), Kristin West (2007), Chris McLemore (2006) and Jackie Domaingue (2005).

The deadline to enter is one hour before the Academy Awards begin, i.e., this Sunday at 5:30 PM Mountain Time (7:30pm Eastern, 4:30pm Pacific). We’ll have a live blog & live chat — with live pool results — starting at 6pm Mountain Time (8 EDT, 5 PDT).

P.S. Here’s the Facebook Event Page for the Oscar Pool & Live Blog.

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 of cross-posting). For now, though, everything is cross-posting in both places.

[UPDATE: On second thought, I’ve gone ahead and turned off cross-posting to my personal FB profile now. The last thing I want is for my friends/”fans” to start seeing the same thing twice in their News Feeds while I’m making the transition. That’d be über-annoying. So, blog posts (and tweets, etc.) are now only cross-posting to the new Fan Page. If you want them in your Feed, you’ll have to become a “fan”! Heh.]

I’ve also created a Facebook Event Page (actually administered by the LRT itself, not by Brendan Loy per se) for my “Oscar Pool, Liveblog & Livechat.” The pool entry deadline is 5:30 PM MDT Sunday; the liveblog/chat starts at 6:00 PM MDT.