gfrancie | This week I've been mostly eating...yetis.

I see the oscar nominations have come out. It looks like they are going to give Martin Scorsese his oscar. I am betting it is more of a body of work, paying the dues oscar then anything else.

My brother Tom will be excited.

I see the movie "Sideways" got a few nods. My Mother refers to the movie "Sideways" as "that yuppie wine movie." I think she would normally might go and see it but because it has been playing forever at the local movie theater and the people who tend to flock to that sort of movie (and then wax poetical about it in line at the local coffeehouse) annoy the life out of her and anyone else; she wants to avoid the film like the plague.

Where I grew up there is this contingent of fleece-wearing guilty liberals who drink fair-trade coffee and when they go the comedies showing at The Rose they never laugh they merely smile. I would hate to see these sorts at an Ingmar Bergman festival. For all their talk about equality and being into other cultures they live in a pretty white place. I'm just saying.

So yeah, no yuppie wine movies for my Mom.

There are a few movies I need to see before the Oscar's air. I think Mr. Jenner and I will put that on our list of things to do. Along with looking at paint samples and calling a builder to fix the balcony and steps leading to the house.