Time to Get Fight Laugh Feast on the Calendar

Over reformation weekend you’ll find me back at the Fight Laugh Feast Conference in FortWorth, Texas on October 31st-November 2nd. For some reason, known best to themselves, they keep inviting me back. The theme this year is Prodigal America. I’ll be giving two talks, the first of which is on “Bastard Nation.” I’ll be taking …

Seriously. The Politics of Six Day Creation.

So then, people. This coming October I’ll be in Williamstown Kentucky, and I will be there for the Fight Laugh Feast Network’s fourth annual conference. The theme of this year’s conference is The Politics of Six Day Creation. I’ll be speaking two times—or dos times, as we bilingual people sometimes say— throughout the three day …

No, No—Know Your Noeo

Introduction: If you scroll down to the bottom of this thing, you will readily ascertain that this post is partly “Autobiographical Fragments,” and partly “Shameless Appeals.” So allow me to dispatch the autobiographical fragments part first. When I was in the Navy, before they let me anywhere near the water, I went through boot camp, …