Santa Ana winds in popular culture  The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry down-slope winds that originate inland and affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California, and are infamous for fanning regional wildfires. The winds are commonly portrayed by writers of creative works as being responsible for a tense, uneasy, wrathful mood among Angelenos. On occasion they are referenced as Santana Winds, devil winds (a translation of Santana), or the fire winds. Some of the more well-known literary references include the Philip Marlowe story "Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler, and Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Raymond Chandler's 1938 detective story "Red Wind" opens with a description of the Santa Anas and their effect on the populace. The Santa Ana winds are the subject of a 1965 essay by Joan Didion entitled "Los Angeles Notebook," which appears in her "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" collection of essays. In Didion's essay, "The Santa Ana", she describes the winds effect on the local residents in a story-like manner. Other works using the winds as a plot or story device include:  In 1980, the song "Babylon Sisters" by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, from the top-selling Steely Dan album "Gaucho" had as its refrain "Here come those Santa Ana winds again." The same year, The Beach Boys included a song entitled "Santa Ana Winds" on their 1980 album "Keepin' the Summer Alive" which referenced the Santa Ana winds as "fire wind" and "desert wind." Although not the first songs to reference the winds, they preceded a series of other songs in the mid-1980's and onwards by popular artists that referenced - and sometimes anthropomorphized - the winds. Other songs incorporating references to the winds include:   With an unambiguous Southern California setting, the long-running TV drama "Beverly Hills, 90210" made recurring references to the winds. For example, Episode 94 ("Windstruck"), features an subplot about the winds' effects. Kelly Taylor (played by Jennie Garth) comments to Dylan McKay (played by Luke Perry), "I don't know what it is about the Santa Ana's but I haven't been myself all day. Maybe it's not the Santa Ana's, maybe I'm just nervous about being with you." He responds with a story about the similar Sirocco Winds in the Middle East, "And, while these winds are blowing...if you kill somebody, they won't even try to punish you.".