Awards' season

As the bleakest part of the bleak mid-winter approaches, celebs come out in force to give each other a big pat on the back.  Yes, it's awards' season again

Here are some of the award ceremonies that have taken place:

Jan 11th:  72nd Golden Globe Awards
Jan 24th: 26th Producers Guild Awards
Jan 25th 21st Screen Actors' Guild Awards
Feb 8th: 57th Grammys
Feb 8th: 68th BAFTAs

(For anyone who's going to be in Hollywood any time soon, the 87th Academy Awards, AKA the 'Oscars', will take place at the Dolby Theatre on Feb 22nd)

Now I'm not saying that Awards ceremonies aren't good (although, have you ever tried watching one all the way through?), and they do provide some awesome red carpet moments

My question is whether they are fair.

The thing is that lots and lost of money are spent on them and there's only a handful of artists that are ever recognised, despite there being hundreds of thousands of people involved in bringing the best quality films, music and theatre to our eyes and ears. There are 24 categories and I defy any of you to name them all, yet most people can name best actor, actress, director an film.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have awards nights, actually I think we should have more.  Andy Warhol said that everyone would have 15 minutes of fame, but some people get way more than that.  I reckon everyone is a potential celebrity, and everyone is awesome in some way or other, so let's celebrate it.

How about an awards ceremony for youth in Copeland? What awards would you give, and who would you nominate: answers via the FB page, and I might look to hosting an awards night in the future.

My week, this week

This week I got to attend the Distington Big Local meeting for families and young people.  Application forms for funding are available via Alan Lowe if anyone has any ideas of how best to improve life in Distington, so get your thinking caps on.