A couple of Oscars thoughts, The Simpsons unique creative nexus of nerd vs hippy vs commerce, and more

There's a lot of TV to discuss in this post-Oscars edition of the newsletter

I find the Oscars a fascinating broadcast every year. Both the awards and the broadcast say so much about where culture is at, as framed by the voting body of the awards.

Everything seemed a lot more conservative than we’ve seen in recent years. It is telling to me that the awards went to grounded political science drama Oppenheimer and to the fantastic…