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How do you do, fellow kids?
Are you dead yet?
Though the Oscars are all about canonization, theyre not sacrosanct.
The Academy should be allowed to tweak the telecast, and sometimes rule changes can be for the good.
No, bitch, Im in my boxers eating a Slim Jim I just bought from the gas station.
But lets get real here.
Nobody complains about the Super Bowl running 20 minutes over, because thats masc, I guess.
(Just delete the three short-film categories like weve been telling you!
And then theres the new Oscar that will be created to honor outstanding achievement in popular film.
The irony is that plenty of those blockbusters alreadydofind their way to the Oscars, simply by being good!
Do you know why?
BecauseDeadpooldidnt deserve a Best Picture nomination.
Instead, I wish the Oscars would stop with the self-loathing, and lean into their length.
Some might look at the new rules and say that the Oscars should be ashamed of themselves.
To me, its clear they already are.
