And the Award Goes To!

I can't believe I watched tonight's wick-wick-wack Golden Globe awards special.

The "correspondents" for "Extra" were the hosts and seriously, an hour of Billy Bush is more than I can take. Forget waterboarding as a form of torture. The CIA should just tie some of their prisoners up and made them watch Billy Bush on repeat for three days. At the end of that, even the most hardened James Bond would confess to whatever the CIA wants.

I mean, we all know that awards shows are only nominally about the movies. Nowadays, they're more about seeing what outfits celebrities wear and seeing Jack Nicholson grinning into the camera. So I think they should have just made a cool website and posted the winners. Or maybe put up a site with pictures of gowns they think the female nominees might have worn.

I will say though that as much as I missed seeing the gowns and seeing Johnny Depp on stage winning his first Golden Globe ever for Sweeney Todd, I was consoled that the entire thing was over in an hour.

Oh, and another great thing was that "Atonement" won for Best Motion Picture, Drama. I loved the book and the movie was fab as well. I've seen most of the movies that were nominated for best drama and Atonement is still the one I'm thinking about the most even though it's been around six weeks since I've seen it. I think you should go see it, but be prepared to cry.

Another word of warning: the sparks fly between Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. I mean, they really fly and you need to remember that if romance is done right, it's almost always better in a movie than it is in real life. So, if you're woman and you're in a relationship and you think it's happy and loving, well, at some point after you see this film, you're going to wonder why your man isn't more James McAvoy-ish.

Just remember, even James McAvoy isn't like his character, Robbie Turner, in real life. So, try to be happy you actually do have love because not everyone does.

And if you're in a relationship and it's not going so hot, chances are that after seeing "Atonement" you will thoroughly hate your significant other and quite possibly decide that you need to end things. You're going to wonder why you don't have someone looking at you like that, kissing you like that, longing for you like that. And it's going to depress you and piss you off.

Anyway, in the spirit of awards, I've been awarded a couple, each from bloggers that I respect immensely. The first is the "A Roar For Powerful Words" award from Heart in San Francisco over at Guilty With an Explanation. Heart is one of my favorite bloggers and one of the ones I've been reading the longest. I was really grateful on the day that "next blog" button led me to her.

I'm going to pass this award along to Shelly at Boring Black Chick. She is, of course, incredibly interesting and reflective, all which serves to make the title of her blog highly ironic. Every time I read her blog, something resonates with me...and she's a much healthier eater than I am. I wish I could switch places with her for a day so she could train my body to not be interested in either Coke Zero or chocolate.

Ian over at Or So I Thought has also bestowed upon me the "You Make My Day" award. This is very generous of him and if I could give it back to him, I would. But that probably violates some sort of rule book.

I also think I'm supposed to give this to ten people, but this awards show is already running long, sooo....we have two awardees:

I'm giving this award to Keith over at African American Dad. He's proof that, despite the things we're taught by the mainstream media, there are black fathers that married to the woman they love and are actively raising their child. I love reading about his adventures with his son.

I'm also giving it to Sally over at Any Given Sundry. I've been reading Sally's blog for a long time and I love it. She lives here in Southern California and she takes a picture every day. This would be painful if she were a boring photographer, but clearly, that's not the case. She's also a fantastic writer so she provides some commentary and context about the photo. I love this because even though we've never met, I feel like I truly know her.

Well, that's the end of tonight's awards! I'd really like to see Johnny Depp on stage at the Oscars instead of a photograph of him on my TV screen with Billy Bush saying something inane. Let's all hope the studios end the greedy stonewalling and agree to pay the writers what is rightfully theirs.