Did you watch the Oscars?

I did — in bits, popping forward to skip all the commercials and all the swanning out onto the stage and the introductions and clips and most of the song-singing and all of the kissy-face and walking up to the stage except the many parts where females in thick, inflexible upholstery struggled to hoist themselves up the stairs — up the stares — to the swirly vertiginous stage. I wasn't really interested in anything or rooting for anyone. I found myself merely mischievously hoping for upsets, and I got some good jolts — "Green Book" for Best Picture, Olivia Colman for Best Actress.

Oh, I see Spike Lee showed his disturbance at the "Green Book" upset. Deadline Hollywood reports:

Our Pete Hammond reported from the Dolby Theatre that Lee clearly was furious, got up and walked toward the back of the auditorium in a huff. He then turned back and appeared to get into an intense conversation with Jordan Peele, who was behind him. Lee paced the aisle and stormed to the back of the auditorium. When he came back, he turned his back to the stage during the speech....

Asked backstage at the Dolby Theatre if his Adapted Screenplay win makes up for Do the Right Thing loss at the 1990 Oscars and the Academy overlooking it for a Best Picture nomination, Lee quipped in reference to that year’s Driving Miss Daisy Best Picture win and this year’s Greek Book [sic] Oscar in the top category: “I’m snake bit. Every time somebody is driving somebody, I lose – but they changed the seating arrangement!”

I'm afraid he's jinxing himself. The voting is secret, so the you owe me! message is unlikely to work.

ADDED: I did watch the "In Memoriam" montage. I'll confess that when it ended, I said out loud, "It was a slow year for death."