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03.21.21
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Oscar Dish: Part 1

This week our podcast, POD FROM A CHAIR (Note: What else would we call it?)  tackles the just announced 2021 Oscar nominations. 

That means the Chair and Holly, our executive editor, break down the major category nominees and offer our predictions, preferences and, well,  general all around…dish.

… and it is a delicious dish. #wink

We also reflect on who was left out, Oscar wins and slights of the past AND the challenges of handing out awards for movies in a year when  we saw the overwhelming majority of FILMS on TV, Laptop, iPad and iPhone screens.

I know….

What we didn’t get to touch on is the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announcement several days ago that there will be NO NOMINEES ZOOMING into the Academy Awards next month from ANY LOCATION.

That’s right, if you’re nominated you’d best find a way to show up live and in person because for the first time in 12 months your presence online does not count for anything (Note: YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!).

UNPLUG

Never mind that those nominees will be seated socially distanced at Union Station  (yes, it’s a train station) in downtown Los Angeles to accept their awards.  It likely won’t look anything like the platforms on which we’ve all stood on when we’ve gone out to meet an Amtrak, subway, railroad or even Japanese bullet train in the past.

Instead it’ll be…um, okay, no one is quite sure yet.  This is reason alone to tune in Sunday, April 25th on ABC,  8pm EST and 5pm PST, and find out.

Now Boarding: Best Picture!

Speaking of tuning in, check out the first of our two pods here:

#1 covers supporting actor and actress as well as best original and adapted screenplay.

 #2, which will drop on Tuesday, focuses on best actor and actress, director and picture.

You can also find them and more on our brand new NEW INSTAGRAM PAGE

A LOT more to come, A LOT more to follow and, always, A TON more to comment on – so stay tuned.

And YES, there are certainly more important issues going on in the world than who will win the 2021 Oscars.   Which is precisely the reason to take some time out to discuss them.

02.07.21
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In the Zone

The above is as close to a sports metaphor as the Chair will ever get and that’s not solely because of Super Bowl weekend.

Rather it’s because I’ve been thinking a lot about zones in this 323rd week of pandemic semi-quarantine.

Comfort zones.

This seems right

Confession: I have never been an entirely comfortable person inside even though I play one quite nicely on the outside.  Still, it’s hard over these months and months and months and months and MONTHS of stress and strain not to get a good sense of who and what makes you feel comfortable and, well, going for it.

Maybe it’s pizza, or lounging in bed all day doing _________________.

He said it, not me!

 It could be as simple as marathon-ing every episode of The Great British Bake-Off, as I’ve heard at least one person I know has been indulging in during the pandemic.  (Note: No, it is NOT me!).

Perhaps it’s even staying put for way too long in that one room of your house that’s become the defacto home office/hangout/pig sty for all things you during this time. The space you don’t clean because you know where everything is, can’t bear to leave and, yet, deep down, long to get away from since you know deep down it’s not good for you.

OK FINE

Yes, that was my mother and yours speaking the latter sentence and of course we’re NOT going to follow her advice.  Have we ever done so up to this point?

This is all to say that rather than yammer on and on and on and ON about it here, we’ve devoted the second episode ever of our new podcast, POD FROM A CHAIR, to what happens when you explore, indulge and break out of your zone of comfort.

Not so much in life but in your binging habits. 

Binging as in entertainment.

Because if you’re gonna attempt to change, it’s best to start small.

Trust me.

Baby steps

So grab some pizza, or pop corn, or, heck, run on the treadmill if you must (Note: Like that’s happening right now) and, as the Brits say, have a listen.

We tried VERY hard to make it feel comfortable in our new zone without, well, overdoing it.