Well the first full week of Exile on Clark is in the books and everything seems to be rolling right along.

Thanks to the all the Cubs blogs that have recently added us to their links section/blogrolls. We appreciate any exposure we can get as our humble little blog continues to emerge from infancy.

The MLB Previews continue this week as we take on the Cardinals, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Giants and Indians. For you regular readers that followed us from Thunder Matt's I'm sure all this talk about baseball seems a bit off-putting. It has certainly thrown me for a loop. A Cubs blog talking about baseball all the time? Ludicrous!

Who here enjoyed the Oscars last night or as I called it "Watching James Cameron gloriously not win anything?" A handful of the Exiles chatted on email throughout the night. Here were some various things mentioned by us.

• Does George Clooney's girlfriend not know English? He could have any woman in the world, and he had to go mail order?

• Whoever this blonde is interviewing Morgan Freeman sounds incredibly forced. It's making me cringe and laugh at the same time.

• Yeah Kathy Ireland doesn't have enough brain cells to be interviewing anyone, even vapid movie stars on the red carpet.

• That was Kathy Ireland? Huh.

• Sarah Jessica Parker looks like even more of a horse than she usually does.

• Are Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson still a couple? Why aren't they at the awards?

• Doogie Howser has permeated society. Everyone swallow your cyanide!

• Why is Robin Williams sitting next to Tyler Perry? Is there a special section for hated comics?

• No, otherwise Carlos Mencia would be there.

• Is that Rosie Perez with Woody Harrelson?

• George Clooney is not pleased.
  

• George Clooney could be banging chicks and saving Africa right now.

• Cameron Diaz is a fucking catastrophe in life.

• Wow, I can't believe Judd Nelson didn't have anything going on.

• Culkin!

• The guy who won for sound on The Hurt Locker looked like a character Christopher Walken would play while hosting SNL. Also, Travolta was wearing jeans at the Oscars. Asshole.

• So...Michael Jackson makes the In Memoriam but not Farah Fawcett?

• Wow, In Memorium FAIL. You couldn't even see the names of the first few people. And they should have saved Swayze for the middle between two obscure writers. I think they need to bring me in as a consultant on those.

• And what about Billy Mays? Greatest actor of our time.

• Ron Silver made it at least. "HER FATHER IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!!!!!!"

• Jake can go to New Moon upwards of a dozen times, but he can't support Ledger's daughter by seeing The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus?

• I must admit, that Bradley Cooper is a sharp looking young man.

• Fawcett was in more movies than Michael Jackson. Same with Bea Arthur, who was also left out. Also, who pissed in George Clooney's cereal this morning?

• I'm pretty sure George is sitting there trying to figure out a cure for Africa. Let him be.

• My Oscar pool is shot. I missed all three of those short film/short documentary/etc ones. Also missed Costume and Original Screenplay and a few others.
  

• I thought I was gay for simply watching the Oscars, but at least I didn't have money riding on Best Costume Design. I will sleep comfortably with my heterosexuality tonight.

• Shut up and go home Tyler Perry.

• Whoa. Shannon Doherty and Erin Andrews are on Dancing with the Stars? Interesting.

• Why hasn't Pam Anderson died yet? She's like the Keith Richards of STDs.

• There's "frivolous spending" and then there's buying Seasons 1 and 2 of Coach.

• HERE COMES THE CHOO CHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Um, all these great actors and films, then there's just Jeremy Renner with SWAT.

• The Dude abides

• Jeff Bridges >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beau Bridges

• Crazy Heart...by no means a great movie, but Bridges deserved it. He elevates it from made-for-TV-movie status.

• YOU'RE THE MAN NOW, DOG!

• Oddly, they couldn't find any other actors that the Precious girl had worked with. Huh.

• Precious isn't crying, she's leaking.

• Wow, you could almost hear James Cameron's ego exploding on screen.

• Did Alec Baldwin just grab the best director's ass? Classic Alec!

In other news the Northern Iowa Panthers won their second straight Missouri Valley Conference Championship and once again are headed to the big dance. I just wanted to give my alma mater a quick shout out and hope they land a good seed for the tourney.

Rockies in 6!