Open Trench is the memoir that inspired the blog. The outcast youth with verve and wit manages to escape mediocrity to...another level of mediocrity? What is this thing that’s living in this body bag?

As death approaches with nowhere else to turn, our protagonist straps on his inner gay warrior, accepts his lover, his sofa, his pooch and a whole lot more. Selections from the book include: Little Miss America, Whatever Happened to Cousin Mickey?, Oops, I Went Crazy, I Never Had an Abortion, Which Way to the Free Market?, Miss Teen USA, The Beta Male, The Literary Whore--a Commercial Construct, Hollywood is a Great Place for Drugs, Oh Hair, Over Acting or Run to the Light Carol Anne, Mexicrap, Love Makes the World Get Round or My Life en Croute, June and Fourth, I Hate You & Open Trench.

Selections have been read at Comedy Central’s Sit ‘N Spin in Hollywood and A Different Light Bookstore in West Hollywood. Soon to be published by ____________?