A happier new year

I agree with K. The first post of last year lamented the dud start to 2016 that saw the passing of Bowie, Rickman and my mum's cat. Arguably this January has been worse but we all know what's up, this isn't the place to dwell on it. At least not right now. There have been good things too. As K said yesterday the Best Actor Oscar nominees is very hot. It's got to be the hottest line up of all time.

To verify this I went through a list of previous nominees on Wikipedia and I'm pretty sure this is indeed the hottest year of all time. In 1967 warren Beatty,  paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman were nominated, that's a fairly attractive lineup but it's hardly comparable to the 2017 list. In 1973 Jack Nicholson, Pacino, Robert Redford and Marlon Brando were nominated but Brando was well past his prime by then. In the last 15 years there have been a few hot lineups which surprised me seeing how hunk-free the telecasts have seemed in recent years. There was the hot 2005 double up of Joaquin and Heath which was pretty special. And I was delighted to see how many times HotMC member Paul Newman had been nominated over the decades. Still this year is definitely something special. Eighty percent hunk is a whole lotta hunk.

I suggested to K that it was disappointing that Dev Patel was not nominated for Lion instead of Denzel for whatever he was nominated for. Partly because Denzel strikes me as a smug fuck.  I don't know if Dev is any good in that movie but he does have a great Australian accent, that movie is nominated for Best Picture so he must be ok in it and he looks very handsome in it. A boner bona fide hunk.

Still, as I mentioned up top let's focus on the positive. It's like Meat Loaf said, 4 out of 5 ain't bad. 



A happy new year

Miss Soft Crab is back for another year! Or i guess I should say it's back for another 11 months because we basically take January off, like schoolteachers, and they're the real heroes. 

The year is only 30 days old but already it's pulled quite a few dick moves. The Bourke Street situation and everything the new POTUS has done are obvious examples. Chickpea's leg got broke during a routine toughness exercise which was a deeply uncool way to start the year. But if we focus on the negative then 2017 is going to be one long mother. 

So let's turn our attention to the fact that not one but 

two former Miss Soft Crab Hunks of the Month have been nominated for Oscars this year, as has Andrew Garfield who has a little something hunky going on. And The Gos who also has something going on but it's hard to say what exactly. And Denzel Washigton about whom I have no feelings. But the first two are bona fide hunks which means the Oscars are going to have to try extremely hard to make this years show not hunky. I'm sure they can pull it off, mind you, but as I'm hoping they fail spectacularly. Go HoTMC hunks!