So, I guess this chapter all came about from a conversation over dinner with Morgan Gendel. Morgan is a screenwriter/television producer who’s written for shows like Law and Order, Nash Bridges, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. He’s kind of an old-timey Hollywood guy who’s still pushing forward in a town that has become unfamiliar to him. And I mean that in the most affectionate way possible.

We became friends after meeting during the MUF/Hollow Eyed Mary fiasco. We’d bounc...