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being a freelance writer in this town, and I think he resents, probably, the fully employed writers in this town.

S: Corcoran you've known for a long time.
Corky and I were practically related, because he was my husband's best friend. And best man. Louis gave me away. We stood on the star at the capitol. What can I tell on Corky? When I first moved into the apartment that they were sharing, I literally had to chisel the urine stains off the toilet. Corky had a huge stack of pornography by the bed. He loved Traci Lords, and when he heard that the videos were being confiscated, he went around town and rented a bunch of them and didn't return them. Corky's got such a wicked sense of humor, that no matter how mad at him I get I always wind up making up with him. I'll tell you one thing I did to him -- he'd just moved back to town to go to work at the Statesman, and he came over to my house and we were watching the NBA playoffs or something like that, and he had brought his notebook with him, and at the time I had just started hosting Check This Action on AM15, and he left his notebook at my place. Now what do I do? Do I be the nice honest girl and call him and not read it? Fuck no! I read the whole thing, and one of the things he had in there was a suggestion for a new column in XL called "Austin Confidential." So I immediately went on AM15 the next week and said, "The new name of the gossip section on the show is Austin Confidential." He liked to have had a fit over it.

S: I think he's got a great gig going.
He really does. And the thing is, he's got such a wicked sense of humor that it doesn't get good use there, because he's much funnier and more wicked than that.

S: Greg Beets?
I love Greg Beets.

S: He's like the last punk rocker there.
And he's like Mr. Clean! I used to love those clips on ACTV of him in Noodle. To me, he really represented the best of that spirit, 'cause he didn't adhere to the notion that you have to have spiked hair and wear makeup, like Tim Stegall. Instead, here's this cheery looking guy, like a Boy Scout!

J: Since you mentioned it, Tim Stegall, since he's not with us any longer.
Tim and I still email each other a lot. And he's one of my boys. He's so earnest. Tim's the perpetual 14-year-old.

S: What did you think of the Hormones?
I kind of liked the Hormones. I remember taking Steve Van Zandt -- who'e now in The Sopranos -- to see the show a couple of years ago. And nobody knew who he was, and someone came up to me at the Awards Show and said, "Hey, Steve Van Zandt's here." He was a really fun guy, and I could tell he was up for anything, so I said, "Come with me to see this band." He really seemed to like the show. Tim's like me, he gets really starstruck around heroes.

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