The Golden Globes, but less golden

Wow. The Golden Globe “Announcements” this year were horribly anti-climactic. Upon presenting the winner in each category, the hosts (Extra and E! News anchors– ach!) showed a still image from the film and made some banal comment about it. And then, as if they’d said “Right-o, moving on…” they segued directly into another category with precious little recognition of the winner. While I support the striking writers, I do feel quite bad for the actors receiving Golden Globes this year. It had to have been a significant letdown. “Guess what– you’re nominated for a Golden Globe! They’re going to show a picture of you on TV for 3 seconds! How exciting!”

Tomorrow they are taking down the bridge that connects my street to the other side of the highway. The lane I live on is officially going to be little more than an isolated cul-de-sac, a dead-end street. It’s a little depressing.

Below, some pictures I took before and during the demolition:
Bridge before demolition
Bridge during demolition

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Published:: 01.14.08 / 12am

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Becca writes this blog. She is 18 and enjoys a certain ardor for computers, writing, running, and the Internet. Her nickname is Bam, hence the domain name. She does not live in Amsterdam.

She is vegetarian but eats fish. Doesn’t get scared, rather “startled,” as in “I only screeched because you startled me, not because I was scared.” Can speak and read Latin; naturally, she thinks men in togas are sexy. She also likes puns and food and car chases in action movies. She doesn’t like olives. Not that olives have any relevance to anything at all.

Becca is willing to try anything once, as long as it’s not jumping off of a bridge or something equally unintelligent. She’s very content with her life and everything in it. She adores television and other astoundingly awful wastes of time (e.g. YouTube videos). She collects rubber ducks. No real reason why. But at least you know what to get her for her birthday.

Skye 01.14.08 / 5am

Dang, that sucks for the actors receiving an award. But I think that a lot of the actors support the strike anyway, so perhaps they don’t feel too poorly done by.

Reilynn 01.17.08 / 3am

Yeah, I agree with Skye. But it’s such a buzzkill. I want to see the event and acceptance speeches, etc.

Menelya 01.18.08 / 10am

Yeah too bad for the actors but I bet the 10million paycheck they get for each movie is going to make up for it. Sort of.

Mishie 01.18.08 / 11am

I feel bad…but if the writers aren’t being compensated enough for their work I understand. Though it is sad that they can’t actually figure out what to say without having a writer do it for them.

Becca 01.18.08 / 12pm

Yeah, that pretty much sucks. But I’m sure the actors understand.
Sorry about your street. Hopefully it won’t affect your way of getting places. Do they have plans to rebuild it at any point?
Lovely pictures by the way.

faye 01.24.08 / 3pm

the pictures are lovely! I love the way you put them in black and white. The look sad.. like the demolition:

Justin 01.25.08 / 2am

Yeah, I saw clips of that on the news (the golden globes thing) and I thought it was very disappointing. Damn writer’s strike affecting everything.
Sorry to hear about the bridge

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