I didn’t watch the Democrats yell at each other last night.  I know I should have, but I don’t have television.  So I watched more episodes of LOST instead.  Because LOST is way awesome. 

I really should have been watching The Departed… which I have had for the last month and just haven’t gotten around to watching.  My Netflix cue has been in a bottleneck!

At any rate, I heard that the debate was great fun.  All kinds of pissy blah blah blah back and forth.  I did watch the highlights while I was working out this morning… but I watched them without the sound.  That was incredibly amusing.  Barack and Hillary both seemed to have that "I’m politely yet forcefully putting my hand up in your face because I need to telegraph that I have a brilliant comeback to your endless rantings" gesture down.  It looked pretty ugly.  And of course, that makes for good, entertaining television.  However, is it at all problematic that they’re getting that pissy with people in their own party?  I mean, theoretically, shouldn’t the primaries be a time of candid discussion, and then we can get really dirty and mean and breaking each other’s knee caps once we’re debating people who actually disagree with us?  Just a thought.

And then, of course, to top off the days of drama, we had the Oscar nominations announced this morning.  This is always the day when I realize just how uncultured I am.  Of all of the brilliant, exciting, highly-acclaimed movies that were released in 2007… I have seen three that were deemed worthy of being considered for this high honor.  And those three are: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, The Bourne Ultimatum and Transformers.  I am truly ashamed.  So, I decided today that I would go ahead and return my still unwatched Oscar movie of yester year (sorry Scorcese… we’ll talk later) in favor of preparing myself for this year’s Oscar celebration.  It’s just over a month away… so I have precious little time to overcome my pop culture idiocy.  Next up: Eastern Promises.

Hey… why not let the Distracted folks here know who you’re picking for the big awards.  Maybe - if I get my act together - I’ll even put together a contest.  In fact… that sounds like a good idea.  The Distracted Globe will, some time in the next week, post an Oscar contest… and perhaps a superbowl commercial contest, if I’m feeling cheeky.  That’s right… cheeky.

Ah yeah.