Tropical Soulvangelical is boycotting the Oscars now that the Oscars had already taken place a day ago as of this writing. Those of you tuning in will know of TSV pointing out the personal corruption of celebrities at large due to both the Epstein Files and the "Schlepstein" Files. As for the Schleps, TSV has included both Savannah Guthrie as per our previous base shares and apparently Britney Spears for having engaged in DUI and hence ruining the good will that was sent her way a few years ago over the conservatorship issue. You will likely recall our pointing out how up to 90 percent of celebrities are guilty of -something- whether or not that involves the law, and how that casts doubt on the spirit of due process. While the Guthrie and Spears cases were going on, TSV remembers an incident 30 years ago whereby a limo was pulled over for speeding, though TSV forgets the city offhand, and then Guns'N'Roses frontman Axl Rose was found in the passenger area. The cop was apparently forced to tear up the speeding ticket because Rose threatened to cancel the Guns'N'Roses concert that was to take place in that city the night after. None of us, TSV points out, have that kind of excess power, and he regards Axl Rose as still -personally- owing that city the amount spec'd on the speeding ticket. He also wonders whether once fans found out that this happened that at least 20 percent of them decide they weren't Guns'N'Roses fans anymore and stopped following the band in protest. That might be the reason why TSV doesn't hear about Guns'N'Roses anymore and how Slash has time to make regular appearances as guest guitarist for Kimmel. So as cases like this one and Guthrie and Spears and Epstein continue to pile up over the past years and decades, TSV considers most award shows like the Oscars, as well as the Tonies and Emmies, as a wholesale effort on part of the scourge of celebrity to downplay its inherent darkness and lie to people that they truly are, somehow, like ordinary people themselves. TSV makes an exception for the Grammies with respect to the lesser categories won by various acts TSV wants to know more about as part of his life's education in music. Not so for visual, though he does acknowledge history being made in the cinematography category this year he's heard on newsradio. Even there, it seems obvious to him that the Oscar people go out of their way to find a pinpoint of "significance" to try to sell themselves to the people with, knowing how terrible the celebrity scourge really is and how it's an increasingly difficult effort for them to dust all the instances of excesses and corruption under the rug. Oh and the Oscars being over doesn't influence TSV into not boycotting them. This year's Oscars are already written in the history books, and it's TSV's boycott that gets written into said books as well. Probably every single year going forward.