This week: yabba-dabba-doobie-doobie-scoobie-doo; shippers passing in the night; defective detectives; early warning; stunt casting; video game elements; Christmas magic; now is the time; wishes brew; get it the old-fashioned way; lucky breaks; not my Fabergé egg; sundae best; rabbit fiends; rat rescue; poison pets; Oscar™ talk; is it horror; the devil made them do it; Ouija board, Ouija board; evil tech talk; dumb writing; saving the structural cat; E-Z novels; pitch intent; meditation or death; clichéd personas; quick fixes; Dave retreats; out of practice; magic mountain; open and admitting; exclusivity is in; long day’s journal into night; it’s a shame; teen snob; Dork Shadows – Mass Effect; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; teacher’s pets; Chick Talk™; Latin chattin’; shell game; continuity eras; sob stories; endless conversation; ghost story; and, finally, corn balls.
This week:
Question of the Week: Have you ever kept a journal?
Sub-question of the Week: What movie do you think should have won Best Picture?
Thanks for listening.
Dept of Corections
As it turns out, The Exorcist did not win the Oscar for Best Picture in 1974. That honour went to The Sting. The Exorcist won for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing
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I keep a diary, but I just the jot down the facts: where I went, who I met, what I worked on. I once kept a more personal diary for a few weeks when I was a girl, but then one of my brothers read it and let me know he read it, so I never wrote down any private thoughts again. But even just the dry details are nice to have. When you talk about a movie on the podcast, I can check to see if I saw it and who I saw it with, and that’ll bring back memories.
Everything Everywhere All At Once was my pick for Best Picture this year so I don’t have an alternative suggestion. But two movies who deserve some sort of lasting impact award are Star Wars (lost to Annie Hall) and Raiders or the Lost Ark (lost to Chariots of Fire).
Dear Louise,
I’ve just finished posting below without first reading your response about the Best Picture snubs. Believe me when I say it’s gonna sound like an echo in here….
I’m glad you said it first and I agree with you 100%
Hello Sneakers all around the World!
I did keep a journal and a damned fine one at that! I started in January of 1999 when we purchased our first computer and I wrote in it every night. I just re-read the introduction to the journal which reminded me why I started it in the first place, it was to have something for my future generations to read about me…a legacy perhaps. Something more definable than pretty pictures that I’ve drawn, my thoughts and stories that kind of define me. This all sounds quasi-dramatic but as soon as you start reading the first entry one can see that I was having fun with everyday life by writing about it or myself. The first entry is titled, “January 9, 1999 • I Know Nothing About Ordering Starbuck’s Coffee”, so you see that I was just writing about observations and the day’s news, nothing Earth shattering. The journal does cover my son’s birth in 2000, VERY Earth shattering, so I have that chronicled, also the movies I saw and other events. By the end of 2005 the journal had become a chore, so I stopped writing one…I was dreading about writing anything because I felt I needed to. My first marriage was also about to end and I wasn’t happy at all, who wants to read about a divorce anyway? Maybe some day I’ll start one up again and not write in it every day, just when I have something to say. Then again, isn’t that why I write you guys?
I still can’t believe “Annie Hall” beat out “Star Wars” for Best Picture in 1978 but I wasn’t really bothered by it at the time…I was 12. I was more infuriated by “Raiders of the Lost Ark” losing the Best Picture Oscar to “Chariots of Fire” in 1982, by then I was 16 and easily angered by far too many upsets. Another Best Picture upset was “Saving Private Ryan” losing to “Shakespeare in Love” but at least Spielberg and Kaminski got the awards for Directing and Cinematography.
There were a number of times when an actor I thought most deserving lost out, how many times was Paul Newman beat out of an Oscar before his win for “The Color of Money”? Remember when Brad Pitt was nominated for Best Supporting actor in “12 Monkeys”? I thought he had that one for sure. Instead, Kevin Spacey won for “The Usual Suspects” which has shitty hindsight written all over it. Speaking of shitty hindsight, Mel Gibson also won big that year….
Oh RATS! You guys were discussing rats and how to deal with them. I’ve had them in my back yard, off and on since last Summer, which coincidentally is when my male cat Mr. Jinx passed. I’ve disposed of seven so far in one way or another and there’s a new one that showed up only three nights ago. They climb along the pergola over my patio which has a kind of trough area along the top which I try to keep cleaned out and sprayed to repel the rats. If that doesn’t work then I set a trap with peanut butter. Things went a bit off the rails last Fall when I killed a dove who went poking around the trap. I asked my exterminator when all this started what I should do, so he placed a poison box outside the yard for the rats. He explained that the rats go into this black plastic thing, eat the poison which makes them really thirsty. When they go away to seek water to drink, that activates the poison and kills them, most likely in a sewer or field. My dog Chewie is half Maltese, they were bred to hunt rats, so he’s a fucking mess when he sees one but he can’t catch one like my cat could. One rat died from the poison and ended up in a planter where Chewie could see him but not get to him…he still looks in that planter for that damn rat he’s so preoccupied with them. Maybe I just need to rent a really mean outside cat? Sounds like a setup for a Looney Tunes cartoon doesn’t it?
Better run, much to do this week but never too busy to miss Sneaky Dragon! It’s a weekend staple! Best to all, throughout the Sneaky Multiverse!!