The Razzies give The Last Airbender and Twilight the recognition they deserve

After watching the Oscars, I decided to give the other Hollywood awards show some attention.

Sequels, Remakes, and 3-D Rip-Offs Dominate 2010 RAZZIE® Award “Winners”

Worst Picture Winner 2010
- The Last Airbender

Worst Actor Winner 2010
- Ashton Kutcher (Killers and Valentine's Day)

Worst Actress Winner 2010
- Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City 2)

Worst Supporting Actor Winner 2010
- Jackson Rathbone (The Last Airbender and Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Worst Supporting Actress Winner 2010
- Jessica Alba (The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine's Day)

Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D (Special Category for 2010!) Winner 2010
- The Last Airbender

Worst Screen Couple / Worst Screen Ensemble Winner 2010
- Sex and the City 2 Cast

Worst Director Winner 2010
- M. Night Shyamalan (The Last Airbender)

Worst Screenplay Winner 2010
- The Last Airbender (Written by M. Night Shyamalan)

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel (Combined Category for 2010) Winner 2010
- Sex and the City 2

The Last Failbender received five Razzies. I'm sure it deserved every one of them.

Above crossposted to fandom_lounge on JournalFen and my personal livejournal.

Closing tabs and windows: A recommendation for the history buffs on my flist

Brad De Long is always worth a read, but yesterday I found out that he has started a new series--Liveblogging WWII. What he's doing is posting complete documents from major historical figures on the 70th anniveraries of their issuance. His latest is Senator Burton Wheeler on "the Meanace of Lend-Lease". He also has writings from Churchill and Hitler, along with Japanese intelligence reports. Unfortunately, De Long doesn't use tags, so one has to dig through his archives manually, but it's worth doing.

It's fascinating reading what people were writing in what amounts to "real time." The closest I've ever come to this experience before was a series of emails reporting WWII 50 years later. The eeriest part was reading dispatches about the Battle of Stalingrad. While I knew how the battle turned out, I couldn't imagine how that happened based on the reproduced dispatches for the first few weeks of emails; the Germans came off so much better than the Soviets. However, the Germans weren't alone; they had many allies in their war against the USSR. It turned out this wasn't as good an idea as it seemed at the time. The USSR was able to stem the advance of the Axis by turning back the Romanians. That was a "plot twist" I couldn't have predicted!

Crossposted to darksumomo on LJ.

A Facebook meme for the current situation

"A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’"

There is a recommended diary on Daily Kos about this meme: A Facebook meme I can get behind. I've also seen it tweeted.

Crossposted to madison_fights on LJ.

And now, a musical interlude--Nightwish singing Phantom of the Opera