The fair way to do this is for Cauron to win Best Director and '12 Years a Slave' to win Best Picture. You reward Cauron for the astonishing technical feat he pulled off and you award Steve McQueen for taking the risk that he did to make a challenging movie about something that most people would rather pretend never…

'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

During the average year, I don't think there are enough legitimately good 3D movies released to justify splitting the award into two categories.

Really? I thought this was one of the more consistent years for movies in recent memory. Very solid depth of field with a lot of variety.

I've always found that the best way to digest music is when it's cut up into one minute chunks and strewn together with completely unrelated songs and performed on late night television.

You want to see them branch out and take on actual songs, but then you realize that you like "actual songs" and that they are personally attacking you and it hurts, oh it hurts, because you remember listening to "Hallelujah" in college in a moment of at-the-time profound melancholy and now some guy from a band called…

That is a fun fact.

This is a gorgeous album sonically. It just sounds beautiful.

I didn't know there was such a thing as a Soundgarden "superfan." I know people bought their music, but I just assumed that was some kind of cultural vortex thing where everybody turned into lemurs and bought the same bad albums.

I know what's going to happen, because I know the Internet and I have stared into the yawning abyss of its idiotic meme factory. Inevitably, some of these actors will be paired together during their awkward award announcements. Inevitably, every person on the Internet will be under the impression that they can make…

I hate it when they do straight rundowns of categories I don't know. Lakes? Fuck lakes. I don't want to sit through five straight questions about lakes. Conversely, I absolutely love it when they do the straight rundown of a category I do know. Makes me feel like a genius. I think what I'm saying is that I'm…

I can't even pretend to be Arthur Chu.

He had just quit his job and had been staring at pictures of dead girls for God only knows how long. I think he just wanted something to make himself feel better about the world for ten seconds.

When you say "Grantland," I think you actually mean "Andy Greenwald."

B+ is a pretty fair grade. It was probably my "least favorite" episode thus far, but I think that's because it has to rebuild the momentum that those first four and a half episodes carried. Those episodes were all leading toward the Ledoux shootout and they oozed with such tension and creepy foreboding. We're on…

Thesis regarding hockey is probably incorrect. If the US had won, it would not have received more than a highlight package. They had already made the decision not to show the game in primetime. The minute they made that decision, it didn't matter who won. At most, the US was going to receive an "extended"…

Best to get in the snark while we still can. Eventually, we'll all be wearing crap like this.

What, exactly, constitutes a "true Olympic moment"? Let's not stoop to announcing cliches.

B-movie.

I want to upvote this, but I just can't visualize a human being who has a mere three albums + some Billy Joel stuff.