Dan McLaughlin was born in Hollywood during halftime of a Rams Colts game. Although the Rams scored a touchdown soon after his birth to tie the game, the Colts then scored 17 points to win. This, along with multi-decade stints at UCLA and as a government bureaucrat, has given Dan an appreciation for the subtle and sometimes capricious agency of action and words. Dan has written five novels, two non-fiction works on the history of Pasadena, one musical and a play. In reverse chronological order his works have been: "WereKitty" a work which considers what happens 20 years after a torrid love aff...