I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

Hmm... you know, since I installed the Site Meter, I've actually been quited surprised, not with the number of hits per day, which is better than I would have guessed but still modest, but rather the calibre (Canadian spelling) of people that seem to be reading this. I've had visitors from the servers of pretty much every major American Ivy League university and technical institute, and now I notice that I've had a visitor from none other than the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, or, for those of you in Rio Linda, the Oscar people. Hmm... I guess they were doing a Google search for "Best Animated Feature", which appears a lot in these pages because of my unabashed cheerleading for Lilo & Stitch over Spirited Away. (I knew all along Spirited Away would win, but the simple fact is that the enjoyment I got out of Lilo & Stitch is worth a lot more to me than whatever I got, or was supposed to get, out of Spirited Away, which I also like, I just wasn't floored by it like a lot of people were.) Hmm... well, even if they're mostly Hollywood liberals, I hope whomever it was at the Academy got some enjoyment from what they read here. I also hope they don't particularly care that I don't put the (TM) after each and every mention of the Oscar(TM) or the Academy Awards(TM) like we're supposed to. That's just cumbersome, both to write and to read... is there at least an ASCII keyboard code for the little "TM"? (I'm using a PC.) It's not on the chart I use...

posted by Steve Brandon @ 11:44 PM