So my wife and I are watching the Oscars and we couldn’t help but make three key observations:

1. We have seen maybe 10% of the movies that are up for Oscars and there was a time when I watched almost every movie that came out of Hollywood.   Of course, we were much younger back then with little or no time commitments or obligations so watching a movie was fairly easy to do.   Unfortunately between work and kid demands we simply can’t make it to the movie theater too often and the experience pretty much sucks now anyway.

2. The movie stars all seem to be getting older and uglier or perhaps the fact that I’m watching in HDTV and the stars aren’t as heavily makeup’d with the perfect lighting that’s making me wonder.  Oh yeah and there were so many bad make up jobs too!

3. While we were watching the Oscars we really weren’t watching it.   We were all on our laptops doing different things while watching the Oscars as a “secondary” venue.   I was blogging, wife on Facebook, son watching movie trailes on iTunes…..we watch a clip of the Oscars and tune out for the commercials, TV advertising is so dead.