Monday, December 26, 2022

AMPS 2022 Best Picture Nominee Vote


It's Christmas. Merry Christmas and all, but it's also a time for me to take a look back at the past year and decide which of the fictional movies that I had come up with over the past year would be granted the honor of taking part of my fictional film awards. You see, I have been coming up with these fake films for the past 25 years and then handing out fake awards in one of three sets of awards. The earliest of these is the Awards for Motion Picture Services (AMPS), and since 2008 I have been letting the people around me play a part in deciding the list of films nominated for Best Picture for AMPS. Of the dozen or so movies that I had made up over the past year, I set aside four films that would be guaranteed nominations, and from the rest of the list I pick out three finalists that everybody else can vote on, and the winner gets the final spot in the AMPS Best Picture lineup that year. And this is where I will present the three films for this year and provide the SurveyMonkey link where you can vote on your winner. Now these are all fake movies, so I'll let you decide what factor would you focus on in casting your vote, but there will be a section where you can write your comments on these movies.

YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THESE MOVIES
THESE ARE MOVIES THAT I'VE MADE UP
NOBODY HAS SEEN THEM BEFORE BECAUSE THEY DON'T EXIST
EXCEPT IN MY OWN IMAGINATION
DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU FROM VOTING FOR ONE OF THEM

And in case my explanation is confusing, here are all of the previous finalist votes for your edification: 2008 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Thursday, December 01, 2022

RIP Gaylord Perry (1938-2022)


If you're a fan of the 300-Win Club, then you might remember that the exclusive pitching club suffered a major blow in the six months between August 2020 and January 2021 as it lost three of its illustrious members in Tom Seaver, Phil Niekro, and Don Sutton. It was a difficult time, but things seemed to have settled down, or so we thought. Then the news came out today that yet another member of the 300-Win Club had passed away early in the morning of December 1, 2022: Gaylord Jackson Perry, apparently from complications of a coronavirus infection. He was 84 years old.