How better to follow up my Oscar picks than by pointing out awards you can vote for?
From the web site: "Named in honor of Ted “Theodore” Logan, one half of the most excellent title duo in “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” the Teds will honor those great films that we all love, even if they aren’t considered Oscar fare. This is where the “Napoleon Dynamites” of the world win over “The English Patients.” "
Go here and vote!

Here's my predictions that I just submitted to Roger Ebert dot com:
Best picture: Crash
Best director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney - Syriana
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco - Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign Film: Tsotsi (South Africa)
Which picture will win the most Oscars? Brokeback Mountain
How many Oscars will it win? 4

And here's my picks that I submitted (with the above) to the Oscars website:
Visual Effects: King Kong
Makeup: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Art Direction: Memoirs of a Geisha
Original Score: Brokeback Mountain
Original Song: "Travellin' Thru" Transamerica, Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton (hey, if Eminem has one, she should get one. She's one of our peeps, right Tammy?)
Live Action Short Film: Our Time Is Up
Animated Short: 9
Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Miyazaki should get it automatically every year, but...)
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: Walk The Line
Film Editing: Crash
Cinematography: Brokeback Mountain
Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi
Documentary Feature: March of the Penguins
Documentary Short: The Death of Kevin Carter: Casuality of the Bang Bang Club
Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha

Use my picks for your Oscar pools and contests, and if you enter the ones I already entered, and you win, send me a postcard, okay?
Caveat: There are a lot I haven't seen (for instance, for Best Picture, I only saw 2 of the nominees. Although Crash was one of them, the others weren't elimimated because I didn't see them like Bill Murray did on "Weekend Update" on Saturday Night Live. Until recently, I thought Brokeback Mountain would win. It was Roger Ebert's reasoning, as well as Entertainment Weekly's Oscar pick issue that report that Brokeback Mountain mania has peaked, and Crash may be picking up steam.) As alluded to earlier, my predictions are based on my cinematic viewing, Roger Ebert's picks, Entertainment Weekly's picks, things I've read elsewhere, and ultimately my own gut feelings. Given how many short films and documentaries that make it to Indiana, that's about all I've got to go on. And the "smaller" categories such as Costume Design, I'm one of those yay-hoos who complained about Ghandi winning it for "putting a bunch of sheets on people".
As Kim Metzger has written in the past when he gave his Oscar predictions, this isn't as exact a science as making sports predictions. It's not as much guessing who is better or who will win, but how a group of people will vote. And you don't find out the final score, just who won. Price Waterhouse isn't going to say by how much the winner won by, or how many votes the runners-up got.
But in my defense, I have won an Oscar contest before, the year Marisa Tomei won. And I will fight anyone who wants to debate that win anytime. As with anything on the Internets, it's IMHO, YMMV, GD&R.

And now word has come out that Dennis Weaver has passed away as well.
So one last time, courtesy of MST3K: "Chief!" "McCloud!"

I was just talking to the wife and the passing of Don and Andreas, mentioning the old saw/false belief that these things happen in threes, wondering who would be next. Like I told her when I found out I hate it when I'm right. As someone on Tony Isabella's board pointed out, if there's anyone out there you want to write to express your appreciation, you should do it before it's too late. Mark mentions his passing here, too.

Just read on Tony Isabella's message board that Don Knotts passed away. That sucks, and Mark Evanier backs me up on that.

Just got this in under the wire, but Abe Vigoda is 85 today. And disregard all those stories of him being dead that started from that erroneous People magazine article. If you don't believe me verify it for yourself here.

I know I should say something about the scandal du jour, but Highlander's done a much better job, so I'm going to direct you there instead.