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The 82nd Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday.  Here's a fantastic chart that shows how much money is re-earned for a movie after winning the Best Picture Oscar. 

Our prescient and delightful and winsome pick Ashley Rodriguez was voted off the American Idol island last night proving, in spades, that the wrong song can kill you because it gives the producers the power to pull the plug on you without leaving anyone, like us, left to feign outrage in her dimming.

Kathy Griffin can be a talented comic, but lately, she's a bit too full of herself as she tries to go mainstream from the D-List.  On the latest edition of her Bravo television show, she made a Racist and Bigoted and stereotypical remark and she was rightfully banned from the Apollo theatre for life because she refused to own her words.

Hosea "The Hosebag" won Top Chef Five last night on Bravo and I can't remember a more dislikable person winning the whole thing in any previous season -- we came close with that awful red-haired witch almost winning it all, but that's another rant for another day.  Throughout this season's competition, Hosea was Too Hot for co-cooker contestant Leah, and when they "only kissed" we knew something more happened because neither Hosea nor Leah could look each other in the eye after that "kiss" and their relationship was never the same again. Both Leah and Hosea had betrothed their hearts to others before the competition. Sorry, but I don't feel like rooting for a Hosebag Cheater as my Top Chef.

UPDATE April 23, 2009:  After getting an inappropriate comment on this article from Slide this morning, my wife and I have decided to no longer play that game.  We're over them.  Any links to our SuperPoke Pets sites are no longer active and should be considered dead.  Why should we pay for that sort of attitude from a company?  We're voting with our money and the answer is: "No thank you."

I am addicted to SuperPoke Pets on Facebook!  Bonky, a monkey, is my adopted SuperPoke Pet and he's currently living in a cornfield in space!

Bruce Springsteen is back.  His latest album -- "Working on a Dream" -- is acoustic and impressive.  The haunting in his voice is everlasting.

Curiously, one of the first jobs of the Obama Administration is to delay -- from February to June -- the switchover from analog TV to the beautiful HDTV broadcast format.  6.8% of Americans have allegedly not yet upgraded their televisions because the $40.00USD coupon program offered by the FCC ran out of money.