If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.

What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.