I’m going to take my Dad to go see this movie.

Please check out the first episode of this ground-breaking documentary that I was fortunate to work on. It’s called “San Quentin Film School” and it follows 9 inmates as they participate in a 6 week film-making workshop. It’s riveting stuff.

Discovery is airing new episodes on Fridays at 9 am. That’s right, 9 am. Fire up those DVRs.

Or better yet, write Discovery an e-mail and ask them to air during primetime.

With every year that passes, I grow a little more contemptuous of the Academy Awards. But rather than trying to fight the darkness that’s slowly enveloping my heart, I’m just going to call this year’s nominations as I see them. Apologies to anyone who is easily offended or reads Vanity Fair.

Best Picture
- Holocaust Guilt Trip - The Reader
- Gay Martyr Bio Pic - Milk
- Masterpiece Theatre - Frost / Nixon
- Big Budget Junk Food - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Low Budget Junk Food - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Leading Actor
- The Ugly Duckling - Richard Jenkins, The Vistor
- Skeletor = Nixon - Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon
- Pander Bear - Sean Penn, Milk
- Assisted by 6 other actors and an army CGI artists - Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Watch me squander this as well - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Leading Actress
- Beautiful starlet playing crazy - Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
- Beautiful starlet (+10 years) playing crazy - Angelina Jolie, Changeling
- Never heard of her or this movie - Melissa Leo, Frozen River
- 15th Oscar Nomination - Meryl Streep, Doubt
- I will crush you, Meryl Streep - Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Supporting Actor
- Nominated for the wrong movie - Josh Brolin, Milk
- The comeback kid - Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder
- The new Meryl Streep - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
- The new Mickey Rourke - Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
- He died for your sins - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress
- Swimming in the slipstream - Amy Adams
- Mammy 2008 - Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Damn, she looks good at 44 - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
- Sure, why not? - Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- All it takes is one good scene - Viola Davis, Doubt

Best Director
- I love computers - David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- I love downers - Stephen Daldry, The Reader
- I love being loveable - Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon
- Anyone feeling guilty about Prop 8? - Gus Van Sant, Milk
- Yeah, it was a load of a crap, but you know you loved it - Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Can you feel it Mr. Bush? It’s nearly upon you. In seven days, you’ll wake up in bed, stare at the ceiling and — for the first time in 8 years — you won’t be the President. You won’t have the Power. You’ll just a be a private citizen and taxpayer like the rest of us. And maybe that will be the moment when you realize what you have wrought.

And you will scream.

This pretty much sums of my feelings about the MacBook Air that was launched last year at Macworld.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard