Our recommendation is to go nine teams (in the North) and seven (in the South) to keep the Federal Way schools together. But we don't know if it will fly.

The development agreement gives us the exclusive right to develop Applebee's in a certain area. It's an obligation to build a minimum number of nine. We already have four good (development) prospects that we're in negotiations on.

Smog doesn't respect international borders, neither do the ill effects.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.