Amazing gravity defying powers of modern dresses

Yeah, so the Oscars were last night. There were a lot of dressed up people, and many of the dresses were lacking in straps. I was very surprised that they did not fall down.

There was also a lot of 'ah I can't believe this', 'thank you, thank you, thank you' by the people who won. I think it might've been more interesting for me if I actually knew some of these people. I'm not very caught up in the TV/Hollywood world and most of the people I had no idea who on earth they were.

It was interesting to see Slumdog Millionaire win a lot of stuff though, including best picture. From what I've gathered, it was a fairly small production to begin with, with a very small budget. It was cool that you don't need gazillions of dollars to make a good movie (though I thought I saw something about them having 15 million in the newspaper. If that's 'a small amount' I don't even want to think what an 'expensive' movie would be like).

Neil Gaiman

Both local newspapers (Pioneer Press, Star Tribune) had articles about Neil Gaiman today. Not surprising really since he just won the Newbery award with his "The Graveyard Book" and the movie adapted from his book "Coraline" came out today.

Reading the interviews with him (and seeing a picture of him with a green stuffed octopus/dragon/thing on his head) I've decided that he's probably a very interesting character.

He sounds really happy with his work though, and very enthusiastic to continue. I think it's cool that people can make a living being authors. It's nice that books are still so important.