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Statistical data on my complete and utter disconnect with the Oscars

A Citizen 2,840,201,999 investigation into my movie-viewing history has revealed an astonishing fact: I have not seen a movie that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture since 2003. Of the 75 films nominated for the industry's highest award since 1998, I have only seen 23.33% of them. This isn't about snobbery. It's about recording my absent-mindedness, and trying to figure out if this means anything about my life. I spent the last half an hour trying to write up a spreadsheet to calculate that information. I had to check my memory against the data, so I used my reporting skills to tally something up about myself. I have seen none of the movies nominated for Best Picture in the last five years, and I'm not sure why. The last one I saw was Little Miss Sunshine in 2006. I managed to catch Good Night and Good Luck on video from 2005, Sideways in 2004. The geologist might question why I saw two nominated movies in 2003, two in 2002. And they might won

Thoughts from an empty bar

The dishwasher spins its magic and cleans glasses that contained beverages that took people into different versions of themselves. It's the last batch of the night, and comes from the last remaining people from this fairly busy night at Court Square Tavern. I'm beat. It's been another long day, and I didn't do myself any favors by going to Fellini's the evening before. My friend Nick dragged me up to sing a version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and I believe there's a picture floating around of that. I had hoped to sing "Cinnamon Girl" by Neil Young, but my friend wanted to leave before that, so it didn't happen. Two years on, this is my life. Soon it will be three years on and I won't remember what it was like before. At this point, I don't remember what it was like before. I think, though, that I've dug myself into a hole of sorts. I tend to be the kind of person who expects the worse all of the time as