Greetings, Dear Reader,
This morning is a big morning for me. My eldest turned four today. She’s a St. Paddy’s baby. She got up promptly and checked her leprechaun traps.
But that’s just the opening act. Right around the time you’ll be reading this, we’ll be finding out the gender of our third, live and in HD.
What do you think it will be? Hot dog or hamburger?
Btw, did you know it was Mother’s Day in the UK on Sunday?
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THE INCANDESCENT DIAMOND
If you read me routinely, you know that yesterday I gave Hollywood a pretty standard dressing down. The race communists in Hollywood have corroded so much of the town’s creativity, the bell of the ball was essentially a blaxploitation vampire movie.
As if to exemplify the carnage wrought by their self righteous preening, look at what these heroes of virtue apparently left behind for the help to clean up.
It was a rough night. Even the winners were losers.
There is one thing I really hope doesn’t get lost in the hideous cliche of it all. One acceptance speech was perfect.
Jessie Buckley won the best actress award and everything about the moment should sing to the aching heart of America.
First of all, she won for portraying Agnes Shakespeare in the movie Hamnet. Do kids even study him anymore? Are the classics lost to us?
Buckley took the stage and gave an utterly flawless speech.
She thanked the team that made the “ship” they “sailed in.” She thanked Ireland, her homeland, for flying her family and friends out to the show. She thanked her parents for teaching her dream. Then she turned to her husband.
“You, Fred, I love you, man,” she said. “You’re the most incredible dad, you’re my best friend, I want to have 20,000 more babies with you.”
She described her daughter “Isla,” who she said was eight months old, had no idea how consequential this all was, and was “probably dreaming of milk right now.”
Then she described the movie, a historical drama about the life of William Shakespeare in which he and his wife Agnes lose their son, Hamnet, right as William is becoming famous.
“To get to know this incandescent woman,” she said of the character she played, “and journey to understand the capacity of a mother’s love is the greatest collision of my life. It’s mother’s day in the UK today. So I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart. We all come from a lineage of women who continue to create against all odds.”
To recap, the precedence for Buckley’s speech was country, community, family, and headlining it all was simply motherhood.
No slogans. No moral posturing. Humility, thanks, and awe for the most important things in life.
Allow me to return the favor.
Thank you, Jessie Buckley. The world needs more mothers like you.
MORE LINKS
Classic Male Rite Of Passage Disappearing Before Our Eyes
Don’t listen to the cranks, listen to your friends.
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UK Actress Used Oscars To Promote Something Completely Foreign To Hollywood Celebrities
Good ol’ Mary has her own take on Jessie Buckley.
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Ridiculous Award Show Rule Perfectly Explains Hollywood’s Downfall
And good ol’ Natalie has her own take on the Oscars and the rule that ruins it all.
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