
In celebration of getting ready to jam the A-cads in my face this Sunday, I thought it might be pertinent to ground all the glitz with some motherfucking context, y'all. i mean you can only get so far when Nicole Kidman interviews Russell Crowe. I'll get to the 79th annual Academy Awards in a mizzle. Before that, i'd like to discuss some of the other famous Oscars embedded in our collective psyche. Wifout any further ado, here's some hot OSCAR-ON-OSCAR action:

1. Oscar- the movie. tagline: it's a comedy of criminal proportions! oy. Sylvester Stallone remake of an old movie not particularly worthy of revisting. Sort of like if Steven Segal decided to remake Paint Your Wagon. Stallone plays a stereotypical wop/guinea gangster- a stretch for the Italian Stallion, no doubt. Do I-talians really get upset when they get called Wop? Wop is a latin-language based term short for guapo, like in El Guapo, meaning Handsome. The Three Amigos is my fucking jam. What's the big f*ckin* deal? OK, sorry about the whoopty-shit derogatory names... I learned it from you, you dumb fucking daygo, Martin Scorsese! Not surprisingly, Marisa Tomei shows up and asks stallone about the positraction on his '64 Buick Skylark...the ruturn of Machio! Oh. Well, it might as well have been My Cousin Vinny. What are yoots? Chazz Palmentari is in it, so it's not a complete turd. And Don Ameche is in it too. And so is Joey Travolta. Why the fuck am I dissing on this chronic jam, when I could be watching it?! I'm totally re-queue-ing my netflix.

2. Oscar The Grouch. I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHO THIS IS.
3. Oscar Mayer. Master of weiners, master of puppets. Definitely not related to John Mayer- although he is making one huge step for weenie kind, he's no groover.Oscar Mayer was the guy who came up with making little tubes of balogna. He knew eveyone in the world was totally into balogna, especially the spelling of it. So he took everyones fascination and paired it with something else everbody was totally into- hot dog buns. Hot dog buns at the time were actually manufactured for use with hamburger poles (never really took off). Through serindipity, sychronicity, dumb luck, or good old-fashioned mixed metaphor, someone's weiner ended up in someone's peanut butter. Have you ever seen hot balogna coming out of a pipe? It's one of those things that changes your outlook on life- I like to think of the time i saw it happen(at the Hygrade plant) as my Viet Nam. I knew after I saw that hot, creamy, khaki-colored tube being extruded from a pipe into a tube-sack, I was "in the shit" and could never go home again. I instantly envisioned myself getting off the bus in a wheelchair and an uruly mustache and making a speech to my brother: Sometimes I wish, I wish I'd - The first time I got hit, I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I mean - who gives a fuck now if I was a hero or not? I was paralyzed, castrated that day; why? It was all so - stupid! I'd have my dick and my balls now, and some days, Timmy - some days I think I'd give everything I believe in - everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I'm not whole; I never will be, and that's - that's the way it is, isn't it? But then, i snap out of it and realize that that speech was from Born On The Fourth Of July, not an honest reaction from seeing balogna being made. The same pipe had creamy not-yet-firm hot dog meat shooting out of it like pla-dough fun factory...except it wasn't fun, and it smelled like smoked hams. Anyway, hot dogs are probably most famous for the title of Limp Bizkit's 1999 release, "Chocolate Starfish And the Hot Dog Flavored Water."

Oscar Mayer also created something called the weenie mobile- a hot dog in bun shaped car used for promotion, not your friend Ted's 1989 Ford Escort with a Baby On Board window cling, a decal of Calvin pissing on a Chevy logo, and approximately 12 bumper stickers that say shit like: "No Farting," "Shit Happens," "Vuarnet" "I See Dumb People," "Easy Does It," and "Journey." Here's to you, weenie man!

4. Oscar Madison. No, not the guy who married Dolly Madison, maker of delicious Zinger brand snack cakes/sponsor of every Charlie Brown Special on CBS. Rather, the one half of the Odd Couple portrayed by Jack Klugman.
5. Oscar De Larenta- a famous gay.
6. Oscar de la Hoya- an American pugilist known primarily for being fancy.
7. Oscar Wilde- An english writer known primarily for being fancy and quoted in Smiths' lyrics.
8. Oscar from the Office. Fancy as well.
9. Oscar from the Academy Awards. A goldish statue. Well, Marisa Tomei and Roberto Benigni won them, so whatevs.



