After graduating from UCLA in 1993 with an economics degree, Erik Quisling wrote a book. An accountant by day, he wrote "The Angry Clam" in pen, photocopied it at Kinko's and sold it to local bookstores. Read more...

He's hung out with Playboy playmates, Kermit the Frog and sumo wrestlers. Read more...

I started the new year off the same as always: jumping in the ocean, eating black-eyed peas, then falling asleep in front of the TV. Read more...

He stars as a 35-year-old father on the ABC sitcom "Notes from the Underbelly," but the 23-year-old Sunkrish Bala couldn't feel farther from the responsibilities his serious character tackles on air. Read more...

If one picture can speak a thousand words, Chuck Stallard hopes a whole gallery will be enough to spread the word. Read more...

I went into winter break imaging something of a hibernation, curling up into my cave and staying there until I had forgotten what school and the world felt like, filling my head with whimsical and totally impractical ideas, and reading books that, while avoiding hedonism, would in no way be applicable to the generation of income. Read more...

I saw the average of my generation, an undistinguished grouping of bodies clamoring for souls in a big, empty hollow, splayed out across the floor in the void of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Read more...