July 26, 2017

The full text of the lecture I delivered last week in Austin, Texas. You are twelve years old again. Your father announces, one December morning, that he has secured a license from the state to cut down a pine tree on state lands, and that this tree will serve as the family Christmas tree. Your […]

Set in 1987. Warren Hays is 40 and works at a University library. He is the great grandson of Will Hays, founder of the Hays Code. Hays graduated with a master’s degree in classics from Notre Dame. He moved to LA after he graduated and tried to win fame as a standup comic. His schtick