Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black likes to write on a laptop covered with coffee and croissant crumbs

There is a fun little piece about Dustin Lance Black in this week’s edition of The Envelope, the Los Angeles Times section about awards season.

Black, a past Oscar winner for writing Milk and the writer of this year’s J. Edgar, shares some details about where he writes and what he writes on.

Black shifts coffee shops around every two hours around Hollywood.

“I’m completely over-caffeinated by the end of the day,” he says. “It’s less distracting than being alone with my thoughts in an empty office.”

He writes on a “very beat-up” Macintosh laptop: “It’s covered in food and it is disgusting.I open it up on a plane and I’m so embarrassed because it’s covered with coffee and croissant crumbs.”