March 3, 2014

Matthew McConaughey is the greatest actor in the land

Despite starring in such classics as Dazed and Confused, Time To Kill, Failure To Launch, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Lincoln Lawyer and Ghost Of Girlfriends Past, this was McConaughey’s first Best Actor win. He won for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.

 

Bill Murray ad-libbed in a tribute to Harold Ramis when he was giving out the Best Cinematographer Award

The pair worked together on classics movie like Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Groundhog Day and Stripes. Murray visited Ramis shortly before his death and the pair reconciled their differences that had kept them from speaking for 21 years.

 

Ellen Broke Twitter

Host Ellen DeGeneres took a picture with stars such as Amy Adams, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, and Lupita Nyong’o and then tweeted it out. It brought Twitter to a brief standstill as it became the most retweeted post ever. Ellen took the below photo with a Samsung product, but was obviously using an iPhone backstage to take pictures and tweet. Samsung spent a ton of money on being the major sponsor of the event. In the Architectural Digest Greenroom just off the stage, an entire wall is taken up by 86 different Saumsung products showing various videos from the event. Liza Minnelli tried really hard to get into this picture.

 

12 Years A Slave Wins Best Picture

The story of Solomon Nothrup that was first told by the New York Times in 1853 was the big winner at the Oscars, winning the Best Picture award. Here are all the winners. Jennifer Lawrence continued her streak of falling down in glorious fashion. Here’s a recap of the best moments. Plenty of weird things happened too.

Pharrell Sells Hat to Arby’s for $44,000

Pharrell performed his hit song “Happy” at the Oscars last night while wearing his hat he made famous at at the Grammys in January. He sold the hat on eBay after the show to Arby’s for $44,000. The money will go to From One Hand To AnOTHER, Pharrell’s charity.

Jimmy Kimmel adapts YouTube Videos

Forget adapting books, adapting YouTube videos is it.

 

Russia goes to war with Ukraine

Russian troops moved into Crimea over the weekend. The US and other countries are not happy about it. China is apparently in agreement with Russia, which is scary.

United States wanting Israel to stop assassinating Iranians

The Mossad has apparently been picking off top nuclear scientists within Iran for years.

Rahm and Fallon are besties

Jimmy Fallon wanted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to come on The Tonight Show. Rahm agreed as long Fallon would come to Chicago and do the “Polar Plunge” with him to raise money for Special Olympics Chicago. Fallon showed up in his signature suit and tie and ran into the freezing waters with Rahm and bagpipers played.

 

Taste of St. Louis moving to Chesterfield and people are not happy

The festival will hold its 10th edition in Chestfield rather than downtown St. Louis. The announcement follows the one last week that the Bluesweek festival will also be moving to Chesterfield. The news is not going over well.

Overheard at @TASTESTL HQ: “How can we make this festival lamer, less accessible?”

— Brian S. (@downtownstlbiz) March 3, 2014

One festival that will not be moving out of the city limits is Mardi Gras. That festival started in the Soulard neighborhood in 1980 and has grown in the city’s largest festival.

The “Fields of Chester” are great and we love the people there, but our events will be staying put in the City of St. Louis, FYI. #stl — St. Louis Mardi Gras (@STLMardiGras) March 3, 2014

Apple announces CarPlay Sometime in 2014 you will basically see an iPhone in new models from a whole lot of different car companies. NASA’s #RealGravity tweets NASA tweeted out some pictures last night in support of the Oscar-nominated Gravity.

 

Tonight, #Gravity is up for awards at the #Oscars2014 & we’re sharing #RealGravity images from real life in space. pic.twitter.com/4Dp6AlBB4s — NASA (@NASA) March 2, 2014

 

Bye, bye Bitcoin

Bitcoins, the dominant digital currency, are quite volatile. You can’t depend on the price and you apparently can’t depend on them to not vanish. Mt. Gox was once the leader in bitcoin storage. Basically it was a bank that you put your pieces of code in. Mt. Gox apparently lost all of the bitcoins it was keeping “safe”. That would be 850,000 bitcoins that it lost. In real money the just doesn’t disappear, that translates to $575,560,500 at this exact moment. Surely it will change by the time you finish reading this.

Chef Keith fools the media

This guy isn’t actually a chef.

 

Be careful when dining along the ocean 

Next time you dine at sea level you may want to check to make sure the restaurant has wave-proof glass.