The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.