Something else in the notes that struck me --
I HATE it when somebody decides that something that's happened at a certain time of year, for many years, should be changed. The Oscars, for me, even when living in Los Angeles, were a "springtime" event. They took place as the seasons and one's moods were in transition. Living in the northeast, that sense became all the more heightened, and it lent something a little extra to the fun of that awards night.
Another case in point: the Super Bowl. I don't care about football at all, but I've certainly been around a lot of people and had close friends for whom that's a very exciting event, and I even enjoyed taking in the fun at a couple of Super Bowl parties back in the day. Somehow, the third weekend or whatever it was in January was just perfect for that, and its regular appearance provided one more little measure of comfort and predictability in one's routine. When I lived in Redondo Beach, I quickly learned to enjoy the tradition of the "Super Sunday" South Bay 5K, or 10K, or whatever it was, going right past my apartment along the "boardwalk" there. I loved taking my coffee and Danish out the back door of the building and watching the happy people running by.
Traditions. That's all these are. And those are examples of two that don't literally affect me in the slightest...and yet the fact of their existence did.
While I'm ranting, the absolute worst might be the changing of the spring and fall time changes. In the northeast, at least, it's just WRONG that Halloween and Trick or Treat night must now be started so late in the evening because it stays light out. A few years after this change, people here still complain about what it's taken away from the latter part of October. And again, even in L.A., I loved that mid-October time change that signaled the more subtle but still very real change in seasons and activities. Same thing with the spring change. These are just wrong in their "new and improved" positions.
