The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies

Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards.

Ceremony will be on ABC.

In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube.

I was thinking about how these showbiz awards have gone through changes. 

The Oscars were invented in part to appease actors. Serve their egos. When they arrived on television in the 1950s, they were also designed to have viewers tune in—year after year—for a star-studded event which was built up to feel exciting and important.

Other big awards ceremonies followed.

In calendar order:

• Grammy Awards are for music.

• Academy Awards are for movies.

• Tony Awards are for not just theater—that is not specific enough—but for Broadway.

• Primetime and Daytime Emmy Awards are for the television.

Most of this used to be considered prestigious.

Over the last generation or so…U.S. citizens became less engaged.

The Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and Grammys now remind me of the mall. The indoor mall. These big awards cermonies, for these different mediums, are like the anchor department stores for a huge indoor mall. The other store are less prestigious, some not particularly relevant, but existing for entertainment. Filler.

What is the trend of indoor shopping malls? What is the trend for these showbiz awards ceremonies? Well, just like with indoor malls—and what has become of them—there isn’t an interest, a use, and a need. Not for how people live. There are fewer music stores, movie theaters, and people have their personal setups at home…to accommodate what they do take in. Convenience.

I have given thought about how music, movies, and television is not all that great. But for what people do enjoy…they are glad to have something. There isn’t much—in art—that is memorable and in need for being celebrated.

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]?

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in Texas.

The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Cornyn, first elected in 2002, will pull through or become unseated, via this primary, by the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton. A third person is also in the hunt: congressman Wesley Hunt.

The primary on the Democratic side is between congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and state representative James Talarico. (They are pictured above as the two debated in January 2026.) 

One may think, “What does it matter—the Republican wins.”

There are people who assume Texas is Safe Republican. Not anymore. 

Since the 2000s, Texas has trended away from the GOP: It was their party’s No. 10 best state for U.S. President in 2000 and 2004; No. 15 in 2008 and 2012; No. 22 in 2016; No. 23 in 2020. It moved up for the Republicans to No. 20 in 2024. From 2000 to 2020, a period of 20 years and 6 election cycles, the state trended favorably for the Democrats to rank as their Nos. 41 to 36 to 29 to 28 best state. (No. 31 in 2024.) The average number of states carried by United States presidential winners, since 1992, has been 29. That is…30 for winning Republicans and 28 for winning Democrats. 

Can the Democrats, under the circumstances that they are prevailing party in a given election cycle, carry Texas?

Yes.

It will be difficult. 

Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas since 1994.

Given the abysmal polling numbers for Republican-incumbent United States president Donald Trump, we will find out if this may materialize here in 2026.

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Bombing of Iran

This blog topic was written prior to the United States and Israel having attacked Iran. (The news arrived on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at around 03:00 a.m. ET.) Comments section is available for the topic. I will mention that I, of course certainly do not agree or support this move. And I do not think or feel anything favorably, from this action, for what it means especially for this nation and its people.