The Academy Awards and my viral memoirs

I am glad that CRASH won last night. A film about the isolation and alienation of modern life with some incredible performances...and CAPOTE, which won the brilliant Phillip Seymour Hoffman his little gilded idol, was written by Dan Futterman, best known for playing Robin Williams' son in "The Birdcage" and one of the few television actors versatile enough to have both "Sex and the City" and "Caroline in the City" episodes on his resume.

A tip of the hat to Ang Lee, whose comeback movie from THE HULK did okay by him, and I think the line of the night was Jon Stewart's when he commented that George Clooney's win might get him laid.

Oh, and the opening sketch...priceless.

I got a note from a longtime reader, wanting to know if you will ever see WINGS LEATHERY AND FEATHERY, my memoir, in print.

Yes, but it might be a while.

I have placed it in my black catalog. I owe it to the universe to speak only the truth, but there are many out there who would attempt to block it because the truth offends them. Ever hear of an electronic dead man's switch? Me, too. It's really rather elegant. Sixty days with no reset, thirty days after code yellow (wherein the system comes looking for me), and my heavily documented and brutally earnest life goes viral as a free downloadable pdf. Paranoid? Nope, I don't think any of the people who have secrets to hide would kill me, they'd have to be remarkably stupid to try, I just want to make sure it gets out on MY terms. I've lived my life as a compromise, this is one act that won't be.

I will update it from time to time, to keep it current...maybe in time I will look less the incompetent, if talented, jerk. Yeah, I have to admit, at least from my perspective, knowing what promise I have, I have lived down to my credo that an honest man cannot be the hero of his own memoir. EJ has suggested I rename the book CONFESSIONAL, but for now I am sticking with the original title.

Now, I can mark that off my list. On to world domination! Oh yeah, and all the side projects I swept aside while completing this one.