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Dec. 23rd, 2024 04:20 pm...for I ask The Archdruid and his readers 'Can you show us on the doll exactly where the educated professionals hurt you?' A Festivus airing of grievances, so I linked to a copy on Pinterest that I could make smaller instead.
Saved comments during March 2021
Apr. 1st, 2021 02:59 pmI wasn't very chatty last month, leaving only two comments worth recording, both at
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ecosophia .My comment on Dreamwidth Links.
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My comment on The Bodhisattva in Orange.
"All I want for Christmas is a ten foot Trump" — I'd have to check if the Chinese factory selling giant inflatable Donald Trump roosters in 2017 for the Year of the Rooster still has them in stock: "A factory in eastern China has been doing a brisk business selling giant inflatable roosters, some as tall as 16 feet, based on a design widely perceived to resemble President-elect Donald Trump." One of those is probably close to ten feet tall, which is closer than a twenty-foot-tall blimp of Trump as a baby, which people on the Left might actually like.
I summed up my attitude last month with a note to myself after reading another entry: "I decided against leaving a comment after reading the first set of other readers' comments. I felt it would be like throwing truffles in front of swine; the readers would eat them and turn them into poop." Let's see if I feel more like commenting this month.
I cut the following out of Politics, government, and injustice among the 2021 feature documentary Oscar nominees because I decided the post didn't need it. I decided just to link back to the earlier entry about the documentary
I will be a good environmentalist and recycle my observations about the two films from last year.
I will be a good environmentalist and recycle my observations about the two films from last year.
I had high hopes for "Crip Camp," as I wrote in a comment on John Michael Greer's Dreamwidth that "'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution' is my personal favorite among Best Documentary Feature nominees..." It ended up winning no awards beyond Judith Heumann for Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary, which I found a bit disappointing.Apparently, none of my concerns about the predilections of the Academy's Documentary Branch prevented "Crip Camp" from earning a nomination. In addition, the film won awards at the Cinema Eye Honors Awards (US), International Documentary Association, Media Access Awards, Miami Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival.
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This is a very political movie because it's about activists, so I'm surprised it wasn't nominated for Best Political Documentary, won by "Boys State." I plan on remedying that in my own way by shortlisting it for this year's Golden Coffee Cups for movies based on its nominations here. As for future nominations, I'm sure it will get them at the Cinema Eye Honors, various craft awards, the Independent Lens Awards, and the Emmy Awards, whether Creative Arts or News and Documentary. I'm not sure about it getting one of the five nominations for Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards for the reasons I mentioned in the comment at Greer's Dreamwidth regarding "Feels Good Man."I would be very pleasantly surprised if it earns one of the five nominations for Documentary Feature at the Oscars. That will depend very much on the mood of the Documentary Branch of the Motion Picture Academy. They deliberately do not nominate documentaries that will earn votes from the entire academy as a whole that they don't agree is the very best. They also don't like documentaries made with archive footage. They also have political axes to grind."Crip Camp" might fall in the first category and definitely falls under the second. The third might work for or against it. After all, Barack and Michelle Obama produced it and their production company winning another Oscar in addition to the one for "American Factory" would send a message. I don't know if that would run afoul of another issue with the Motion Picture Academy's Documentary Branch: "The Documentary Branch normally does not [nominate] films by previous winners." So long as that applies to directors, not producers, it shouldn't stand in the way of "Crip Camp" earning a nomination. Neither Lebrecht nor Newnham have even been nominated for an Oscar, although Newnham has earned a News and Documentary Emmy Award for "Collisions." I wish them both good luck with this film.
More saved comments from January 2015
Feb. 9th, 2021 11:59 pmI found another mirror of The Archdruid Report, complete with comments, so I can save comments I thought were lost forever. Here is my comment from The One Way Forward, the recovered first entry from January 2015. I did save it before, but didn't save the responses.
( Comments from The Archdruid Report I thought lost to deletion behind the cut. )
I'm getting ready to shut down this computer and set up the new one, so ( I'm copying my notes from my current file of NoteTab Light (remind myself to see if I can download it on my new CPU) and pasting them here. I'm also including a link from a tab to ask about in a future Magic Monday. Wish me luck! )
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