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We now encourage you to get your Oscar drinking on early, in anticipation of our liveblog at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST. It seemed a timely and fittingly spectacular way to go out—by plunging the illustrious trophy into my gut head-first, in one final, savage act of Hollywood harakiri.

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Surprise! I'm nobody. Just like we told you in May.

For the three of you keeping score at home (Mom, you can finally tell Grandma I'm not actually writing a movie for Bob Hope), the proper spelling of the name is "Mark Lisanti."* A few of you may know me from my other anonymous blog, Bunsen.tv, which helped land me this (somewhat) paid gig as, er, an anonymous blogger. There's really nothing like failing upwards in tiny increments! In the end, what could be more Hollywood that that?

[*To clear up some confusion, it should be noted that Esquire spelled my name correctly, while the editing-impaired Grove is solely responsible for this "Listani" business.]

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