You can run from your past or try to shake hands with it and make peace. I've decided to go for the latter. The writing was often sophomoric and/or indecent (my article about the student film "Animal Attraction" got the magazine banned in Canada), if not downright actionable (e.g. our fake obit for still-living underground filmmaker Nick Zedd titled "Zedd is Dead," which may have inspired Bruce Willis' famous line in "Pulp Fiction"), but we were young and, in my case, fresh out of UCLA Film School, and our ignorance gave us the ability to write with an abandon that now is undermined by the politics of earning a living in this town. (Click an image below to read an article.)