After performing on stage as a loopy Tchaikovsky in "QUEEN CHRISTINA GOES ROMAN", I finished writing "THE FASHION BUG"--a comic screenplay about a scientist's supposed cure for the common cold that proves instead to be a contagious virus that turns him into a fashionista and everyone he touches into his rabid fans.

As Winter faded, I was cast in an episode of the FOX television mini-series "AMAZING SPORTS STORIES" where I play baseball manager Joe Engel who hired teenager Jackie Mitchell to strike out Babe Ruth and Lou Gerick in a publicity stunt. About that time, my stage adaptation of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY was produced in Onalaska, Wisconsin.

Meanwhile, "ZOMBIE STRIPPERS" opened in theaters and I discovered my day of suffering heavy makeup and fake blood on that set last year ended up amounting to less than one minute of screen time and a failure to get on-screen credit. Lesson learned.

Spring found me cast in Kurando Mitsutake's film "SAMURAI AVENGER: THE BLIND WOLF", a hyper-stylish, gory nod to the old Japanese samurai movies. I play a nasty prison guard who taunts the homicidal villain one time too many.

In summer, I worked first on Ian Clay's film "LOSING YOU" where I play a reluctant lawyer and then on Stephen Mouton's "FREUDIAN EYEBROW" where I play a loony Germanic diplomat-cum-scientist in charge of a mysterious midnight experiment that goes awry.

Autumn came and Cengage, Inc. bought one of my editorial articles for their upcoming college textbook, "Viewpoints" and my screenplay "SCARE TACTICS" was honored as a finalist in the 2008 Horror Screenplay Contest. I also continued work on my new novel, wrote a new short story "Ghost Writer" and "Cold Lang Syne", a full-length thriller for the stage

Winter returned and I played an FBI Agent in "DIFFICULT TO STAY ALIVE AND DIE" and a priest in "CONSTITUTION, USA"--a film about an alternate reality where heterosexuality is a sin!

Most of the above-mentioned films should debut in one form or another sometime in 2009, so keep your eyes peeled for them.

In the meantime, hope all is well with all you who stumble upon these words.

See you next year!