If you like a particular artist/actor/creative type, best to tell them now.

Seriously, if you’ve been meaning to do that, stop meaning to do that and just do that.  And not just because this was a hellyear for funerals. A lot of artists, for some inexplicable reason, feel that they’re full of crap and their stuff is full of crap and nobody cares about what they create.  Go tell one that you care.

Then give him or her money, if at all possible.  Because money pays bills. Or even just buys ice-cream cones. You’d buy your favorite writer or musician an ice-cream cone, right?  Of course you would.