Mr Streep, you need to speed up your game

Watched the critics' choice movie awards tonight. Loved that Meryl Streep went to thank her husband and instead said he couldn't be there because he was golfing. Can you just see their conversation that morning: "Honey, I'm up for best actress at the critics choice awards tonight. Is your tux clean?" "Oh great, another f*&*!n award. Guess this means I'm on my own for dinner. I've got a tee time with some clients that I need to see so I can figure out how we're going to buy a bigger house to fit all your god**&% awards! Don't wake me when you get in." Still, it's very cool that you're married to Meryl Streep and she's picking up another best actress award and you still get to golf instead. Those are the right priorities.

I was originally going to spend all my time on this blog which I don't think anyone is going to find talking about interesting suicides. Then I started doing some research and it's pretty depressing. I was inspired to cover the subject by Malcolm Forbes' book "They Went That-Away" which chronicled the deaths of famous people throughout history. And recently I saw a quote that hit me "In a hundred years it will be the same problems but different people."

As part of uploading my CD collection (don't get me started on the vinyl still sitting in the cupboards --- all 1200 pre 1980 LP's some of which have not shown up on itunes, probably for good reason) I started noticing how many of my favorite artists ended up killing themselves. Same with my favorite writers. I first thought about Phil Ochs, and later Nick Drake. Then I heard again about Van Gogh and I thought it would be interesting to collect short bios of famous suicides in one place. Then I started re-reading Richard Brautigan (suicide in 1984 at age 49) while listening to Judee Sill (suicide in early '70's). Anyway, it's a great list but not what these writings are going to be about. I have no idea what they will be. Maybe the next one will be about how I saved the video game industry. Or how I learned to appreciate great wine. Or whiskey. Or whatever.