So about that weather....

The forecasters are predicting that tomorrow the first Santa Ana winds of the year will wreak havoc. If you've read Joan Didion's short story collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, you'll know why the news sounded more like an omen.

And from Raymond Chandler:

On nights like that [when the Santa Ana blows] every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husbands' necks.