If you’re on the East Coast or time zones further down the clock, you may have been already out the door by the time the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC finally, officially conceded their mutual defeat: there will be no Golden Globes, there will only be Golden Globe winners, announced at a one-hour press conference telecasted by––gulp––NBC News. It took several hours for the film and entertainment blog worlds to chew up this news and thoroughly spit it out. Here then, a timeline, culled from my RSS reader, of the blogosphere’s coming to terms with The Fall of Globes, without a doubt the greatest tragedy of our…week. So far.

6:02 PM EST––The Cold Hard Facts: “The mechanics of the one-hour announcement itself are muddled. The original idea was that at some point during the parties the HFPA would stop the proceedings and make the declaration of the winners. Cameras would be poised on the nominees at the different parties, so that there would be reaction from Atonement’s Keira Knightley, for example, at the Universal/Focus party. This concept was scratched by the WGA.” — Anne Thompson

7:21 PM––Let’s Focus On What’s Really Important: “Who aren’t you wearing?! … Sorta hard to have a ceremony when no stars are gonna show … we’re just sayin’.” — TMZ

7:35 PM––Is A Moment of Silence In Order? “(For the moment at least, let’s not further darken our moods by speculating about What This Means for the Academy Awards. Fine–count to ten before commencing the doomsaying.” — Defamer

7:59 PM––Mayday! First out-of-context There Will Be Blood reference alert!: “Now I am hearing from one wag that WGA is still asking actors not to attend the Globes parties… and that some studios are considering, really for the first time, cancelling the actual parties…More drama. It will be interesting. There may be blood.” –– David Poland

8:01 PM––There’s an ocean of swag bags at our feets, and no one can get at it!: “HBO, InStyle/Warner Bros, Universal and more are busy canceling their Golden Globes parties right now. WGA may still picket what’s left of the telecast Sunday night.” — Nikki Finke

8:30 PM––Awards Season Draaaaaaaaaaaiiiiingaaaaaggggee!: “And as the clock ticks, the town wonders — what will become of the Oscars if a WGA strike settlement doesn’t happen?” — Jeff Wells