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A note on awards ceremonies

In case you’re wondering, it’s unlikely that I’ll be writing about awards ceremonies here for various reasons. First, it’s impossibly expensive to license images, so I’d tell without the showing part. And since you can find tons of the big websites, I’ll leave you to it and make room for comments and discussion.

Second, the gratuitous and fatuous self-congratulatory events mostly turn me off.

Yes, I covered them for years.

Yes, I attended and did makeup for a while there.

But overall, I’m burnt out by celebrity culture. And I’m deep crispy fried watching celebrities wearing jewels that cost more than most of us earn in a lifetime clapping for themselves. Conversely, I think we all should receive awards for doing our jobs. And so I shall hand you a virtual golden statuette and clap wildly for you today and every day.

This one’s for you!

On the other hand

Incidentally, I’m totally over doomscrolling as well, the practice of endlessly looking at …