DEV PATEL AND FRIEDA PINTO IN SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

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Come February 22, the Oscars will be awarded to the best movies of the year 2008, that is, at least by Academy voters/standards. And as of today, in the SAG and the BAFTA and the Golden Globe and the DGA awards night, the independent film, The Slumdog Millionaire grabbed the best picture, best ensemble trophy from frontrunners like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Milk, The Reader, and Frost/Nixon. I bet it will win the best picture Oscar. The movie is dazzling, the director Danny Boyle is brilliant, the script very clever, the music rousing. Every aspect of the movie is just as marvelous.

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Happy Oscar weekend. Celebrate the movies.

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February 23

The Slumdog Millionaire won 8 Oscars including Best Picture. Congratulations! ______

AVOCADO ON BLACK PLATE BY NEL JANSENN

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Open me up, discern my soul.

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A meditative weekend to all.

11/21/08

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The banana plant and its clusters of fruit--still green, however...The buds of flower, still to become fruit, later , remains at the distant end of the banana stalk. Amazing plant! How the flower becomes a fruit and all the transitions--in-between...amazing!...Oh, well.

A sandwich to fill me...