Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.