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It's Sunday March the 5 around 11:52PM and

Buzz Dump: Oscar Edition

The 78th Academy Awards were tonight. We watched. Did you? Let's catch up on the best of gossip, useless and totally trivial information, and other, er, good stuff. Go:

*First up, Oscar. I think Defamer (sporting a fine new redesign - pretty Gawker 2.0 standard) sums it up best with a comment on the best picture category:"8:23pm: God help us all. The sky has opened, Beezlebub has dumped his infernal payload of obvious evil on an unsuspecting Earth. Life as we know it is over. Drive to the desert and start a new civilization, hoping that our horrible, horrible mistakes will not be repeated. This is the end, friends. See you in Hell."

*And D-Listed adds, "What is being called the biggest upset in Oscars history, Crash went away with Best Picture. Those GD homophobes!"

*What a mess. No clear "Oscar film". No clear best dressed either - not a great sign me thinks. Crash is best picture (also wins Editing, Original Screenplay). While Brokeback wins Director, Musical Score, and Adapted Screenplay. That's three each. Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong win three too. One word: Reese. Capote - the Vancouver favorite with local producer Bill Vince up for some Oscar gold nails the Best Actor , but goes 4-5 on the night. That one was equalled by the kids from Hustle & Flow got some gold for the original song "It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” by Three 6 Mafia (which also gave us the funniest Jon Steward quip about "Martin Scorsese, zero Oscars. For Three 6 Mafia, one.")

*In honor of Brokeback not winning best picture. Here's the Lost version of "Brokeback Island." I can't quit you Jack. (Via Defamer)

*While everyone was going for Oscar, it was also Lebowski Fest LA this weekend. Amazing fest design as per usual.

*If you didn't catch the antics of Joe Rogan last week now's your chance to catch up. Joe lays some smack down on some MySpace trolls with excellent results. The Superficial explains: "Not only will he call you a loser and brag about how he's a multil-millionaire Tae Kwan Do champion, he'll also post the whole ordeal on his own MySpace blog. And then he'll probably roundhouse kick you in the face, because that's what you get for going to college and not becoming a multi-millionaire Tae Kwan Do champion. Education is for the weak!" Awesome!

*Just because this is Sunday, and this is cool. How great are funky old gas stations?

*I think that this campaign to fire NBC reporter David Gregory is funny. His "drunken" appearence on Imus is legend.

*While Hollywood glammed it up, today was the 60-year anniversary for Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech.

*And lastly - and most importantly. You have to witness Natalie Portman on Saturday Night Live from last night. Her Rap Video is so awesome it is crazy. And yes on monday morning the cool kids around the water cooler will be talking about it. Not enough Portman? Rock this Japanese commercial she did when she had long hair.