I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd.

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

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

The one thing I have found about Hollywood is it's a town full of people who believe in themselves, often to a degree where they're what you would call "delusional."