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
Striking down the mundane and dastardly while retaining a certain obscure turn of phrase, denoting something elusive yet concrete.