It's refreshing to see the awards in context with normal life.
Bread is denied but the circuses are relentless.
I wanted to drop you a note about David Walsh's piece on the Academy Awards. Mr. Walsh was talking about my Monday morning. I am a teacher who does not have a television or a radio that picks anything up but the local commercial radio, so my connection with the outside world is limited at best. On the morning after the awards, I stopped and bought a US Today because it was the only paper available and found to my disgust that the only thing I could find within the article covering the Oscars were what dress Jennifer Lopez was wearing and that the real Erin Brockovich was being sued by one of her ex-husbands. In a fit of rage I tore the paper to shreds only to turn around and see one of my students waiting in my office door.