That entertainment business distinction is key. A friend of mine who's a L.A. native nailed it once: "You get a lot of big fishes from little ponds out here." L.A. attracts all the people who thought they were too special for Someplaceville, USA. It's a certain personality type out here looking for their big break,…

Man, that's some "No true Scotsman" logic if I ever saw it. No place an hour's drive from San Francisco qualifies as "southern" anything. And not to derail this into a SoCal/NorCal thing, but I have to at least put this out there: I'm from Central CA and have lived in both Northern and Southern CA (currently residing…

Please tell me you used "Hollywoo" on purpose.

Oh please. Plenty of people buying into the power of positive thinking jazz in the north too. Just hang around Santa Cruz long enough and you'll hear it.

*cough*1969astheinaugerationisn'tuntilJanuary*cough*

Sean Penn stand-in? Uh, he's more of a Richard Branson stand-in.

Like Boba didn't sound weird to the ears the first time you heard it…

"This is heaven's punishment for us having terrible taste in everything!"

"You drive a biscotti?!" - Solid Gold.

REMEMBER BIG HENRY.