By Shane Brown, sbrown@qconline.com

Photo: Background image by AP Dispatch/Argus columnist Shane Brown will be hosting our Online Oscar party tonight.

I'm throwing an online Oscar party tonight, and you're invited!

I'm gathering some of the biggest pop-culture geeks in the Quad-Cities at the International House of Shane, and we'll be on Quad-Cities Online during the Academy Awards telecast, live-blogging our thoughts, comments and fashion advice from the confines of my living room.

Stop by the QCOnline.com main page and join the fun! Or go directly to qconline.com/live to join in. The party will start at 6:30 p.m. and run until the show ends -- or until we die from boredom and/or old age, whichever happens first.