[RonDog]

It so stank that they decided to restrict the crowds...

You got THAT right.

No one arriving after about 1 pm could get anywhere NEAR our location.

ALOHA RONNIE, FIT-AIM-ACT-1 and I got there around 10 am, and even THEN the crowd was already four or five deep at the rail.

We vigorously defended the "alcove" of the large while builing right at the northeast corner of Hollywood and Highland - where Ted set up our base camp last year, and there was room for at least a dozen of us in that area...

...but the police would not even allow a "hostage exchange" - in which the three of us already on the inside would promise to leave - permanently - so that you and Ted and Outraged could go in to take our places. ;(

There were just TOO MANY other people who also wanted to get in, that they had to adopt this disappointing policy.

We really want the folks to see your ELF costume...

...and Ted's new Uncle Sam outfit:

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

In case, like me, you didn't watch:

THE GOOD GUYS WON A BATTLE IN THE CULTURE WAR ON THE HOMEFRONT LAST NIGHT!

 

Oscars:

 

....Crystal carried a distinctly patriotic thread through the proceedings, trashing Saddam Hussein, sending a "big hello" to servicemen and women posted around the world, and stomping on Michael Moore's 2003 anti-war speech in digitally enhanced animation.

 

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After-action FReep Report:

(Fortunately, there were NO "anti-war" protesters outside the Oscars this year,
and Michael Moore got squashed by Hobbits inside.)

What a difference a year makes!

THIS YEAR, elements of the "Hollywood Resistance Force" (also known as the Los Angeles Chapter of the Free Republic Network) gathered once more near the corner of Hollywood and Highland - just outside of the Red Carpet area - to counter any potential "anti-war" protests.

The RATs stayed away.

There were NO "bad guys" ANYWHERE outside this year, but MASSIVE crowds of star-struck fans and multiple competing events disrupted our ability to gather and FReep effectively.

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Red-carpet duty for Marine at Oscars

Brian and Kayla Aria will be attending the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.

Like millions, Helen Chambers of Happy Valley will be tuned in with her husband and family to Sunday's glitzy Academy Awards ceremony on TV.

But it won't be the Hollywood stars, or the ceremony itself, that will command her full attention.

For her, the real stars of the night will be her son, Brian Aria, and his wife Kayla, both 20.

Aria, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, will be spiffily decked out in his dress blues representing the Marine Corps at the Academy Awards and will be accompanied by his wife, an Enterprise High School graduate.

"Details are still on the vague and secretive side, but Chambers said her son, an Iraq War veteran who was selected by the Marine Corps for the prestigious Oscar night honor, will be stationed somewhere along the red carpet outside the Kodak Theater in full view of the TV cameras and paparazzi...

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Great report, RonDog!

 Thank you, Hollywood Resistance Force ~ Los Angeles Chapter of the Free Republic Network!

~ God bless America! ~