This all ties together -- if not neatly, then at least like a bunch of balloons on strings and the strings all notted in your hand. Or something like that.

The film I now most wish to see after not seeing it before the Oscars is "Once," which took best song last night (Falling Slowly). Set in Dublin, this shoe-string-budget film stars Glen Hansard (of the Irish rock band The Frames) and Markéta Irglová as struggling musicians. I knew the song was a winner when I heard it for the first time last night -- and not just because the three nominated songs from "Enchanted" were so lame. Hansard and Irglová's song is a beauty, and the singers were by far the most charming in receiving their awards.

Speaking of Dublin: The Modells were there again last week, promoting their digitial, three-dimensional film, "U23D," and they took dad with them. Art Modell, Baltimore Ravens owner emeritus, got to hang with Bono. Here's photographic proof, via David Modell, with brother John a producer of the film.

So Oscars, Dublin, Bono, Ravens -- yup, it's all strung together here, in the blogosphere.