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This Sunday’s broadcast of the Academy Awards promises to be one of the lowest-rated in quite some time. The public-at-large doesn’t seem to give a hoot whether or not The Artist topples The Descendents for Best Picture, so long as Uggie is able to overcome his mystery shaking disease and walks the red carpet in full, resplendent glory (while, at the same time, sniffing as many crotches as he damn well pleases). All of which got us thinking: Human actors and actresses are just plain Boring when compared to their canine counterparts. So, as a means of celebrating the many silver screen triumphs over the years of our four-legged friends, we here at Best Week Ever decided to create The Wag Awards as a means of celebrating the artistic achievements of man’s best friend. Dog lovers extraordinaire (and VH1 video editing maestros) Tami Foy, Joe Maziarski and...

Well, this was inevitable. Watch The Throne, the collaboration between Kanye West and Jay-z, is a pretty big deal, and the first single off the album, “Otis,” is excellent. The song samples Otis Redding, which is very cool, as is the video. Real good stuff, that video. But do you remember the movie The Adventures Of Milo And Otis, about the dog and the cat? Yes, it’s a movie about a dog and a cat, and yet it’s so much better than that. Perfect timing, then, that somebody recut the song to scenes from that very same movie, particularly with focus on Otis the pug.