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him how to dress? He doesn't care.

Margaret Moser - she's more than a rock writer, though.

Margaret's always kind of been big sister to me. When I really was even dumber than I am now, Margaret clued me in to a lot of things that I didn't know about and has always treated me just terrifically. Margaret does memoirs, personal experience, very, very well and has become increasingly good at it. In terms of her opinion and being able to use that opinion to gauge whether you'll like something or not, I don't know how reliable I've ever found Margaret in terms of that. Instead it's if Margaret loves something - and in fact, that's the thing I've always looked for in rock writers. First and foremost, you're a writer. If you can't write, who cares? If you can write, who cares what your opinion is? I mean, hell, I' ve agreed with about three of Corcoran's opinions musically in my life, but when Michael writes really well, he's a terrifically entertaining writer. I don't care what his opinion is, and the fact is that he's oh so frequently just wrong, wrong, wrong in his opinions.

What was it like working with Rob Patterson?

Rob and I personally have always had a good working relationship. We got a lot done together, we always worked well together. But Rob can be difficult. Other people don't necessarily find Rob easy to work with. He's opinionated. He'll have a vision of how things should be, and with people that he respects, that kind of interaction can be one that will produce positive results. But if Rob dosen't respect somebody or if he thinks that they're wrong or something, he can be - he can make people angry. And he'll make people angry in ways that a lot of writers make people angry.

He was your successor at the Chronicle, right?

He was. And prior to that, Rob was a writer for me. He did a bunch of really good good work and did it really well and didn't cause me any grief at all.

Let's see, over at the Statesman, you already talked about Corcoran.

Now, Michael, I just want to mentain that Michael and I have been friends for a very, very long time. Michael and I lived together twice.

Couldn't work it out?

He was a bad lay. No, when it comes to Michael doing his job, if people would ever get the sense that - like the kind of thing you talk about, the poker game that controls the media, or all of my friends who are journalists or musicians, Michael sort of is proof that this does not preclude conflict. With that column, sometimes he'll do things that make me crazy. He'll also do things that are helpful. But he has his own agenda and I have mine, and of course I feel like mine is right, and how could he possibly fail to see that my side is the correct one?

I have to ask you one final question that was requested by an outside party. I was told that for women of a certain age, Brent Grulke was a rite of passage.

I can only answer that by saying no one can talk about his or her love life without bragging or confessing, and who wants to hear either one?

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