Just watched a few minutes of the "Golden Globes" "award" ceremony. I know, no need to shill. There was a time I enjoyed watching films and was interested in who "won" the awards.

As a side, I actually only knew it would be on because I had read something about Ricky Gervais (sic?) doing the mc'ing later tonight. He did as good a job as you could. He roasted hollywood pretty brutally and made no political jokes (I.e. took no digs at President Trump and actually advised anyone who wins to do the same).

My few thoughts.

It's a dying industry and they know it. They understand people are aware of their sick leftist values, the pedo scandals and the worn-out love of themselves and the constant awards they bestow upon…themselves. Perhaps having harvey weinstein's trial starting tomorrow, with what secrets it will eventually reveal about the industry's common practices, weighed on their minds?

The broadcast felt forced. Faux levity and gaiety, dancing on the tables while the mortars were landing on all sides.

Their "icons" - called out by name with the attendant camera pans - streep, de niro, hanks et al., looked like the old pathetic hateful, spiteful hags they are. In fact, to me the vast majority in the room looked more "normal" than ever before. It's as if the magic was gone. The lights, camera tricks, in-house band, glitzy room decor and "haute couture" simply had no effect. The old razzle-dazzle came off hollow and was unable to put lipstick on that pig.

hollywood as it was is dying and this three-hour jubilee felt more like a wake. I stayed for fifteen minutes, which after Gervais' opening, felt like a complete waste of time. The biggest presence of the night was the one person not in attendance as a direct result of their unjustified collective negativity and scorn. Not russell crowe who, though "winning" a "golden globe" in some category, chose to stay home in Australia to "protect his family from the raging fires" (flashback to Marlon Brando's Native American girlfriend accept his "oscar" and read some speech about 'American oppression of indigenous people')…

No, the biggest presence was President Donald J. Trump.

The contrast between his ongoing contributions towards America with this group, with their collective spiteful undeserved derision, couldn't be any starker for people to see and feel. Jokes about Felicity Huffman in prison making license plates and leo dicaprio dating minors have come too little, too late. America is waking up and old hollywood is dying.

tl:dr - fuck hollywood, good riddance it's dying