“You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies...” — Adam Mansbach Quote

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.

To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.

Specifically, I'm from the South Side of Atlanta. It's country, we live in our own little world, but it's cool.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

The Dishh has everything, not just gossip; cool places and cool outfits, cool places to travel, cool things to see and do.