I grew up outside Boston. My mom was a grade school teacher and my father conducted research at Harvard. They drank red wine and made my sister and I cut articles out of the newspaper for "Current Events Night" at the dinner table. They also liked to play horseshoes outside while I fiddled around with the Japanese beetles. This all sounds much fancier and jerkier than it was.

In the 1990s, as a teenager, I moved to a conservative town outside Birmingham, Alabama. Inspired by Christian Slater's portrayl of a youthful shock jock who "talked hard" in Pump Up The Volume, I ran for chaplain of the student government (out of sarcastic irony) and won. Under this job title, at pep rallies, I was supposed to read quotes from the Bible in relation to "life lessons." However, what sprang from my being was something more like a weird quasi-rebellious comedy act.

These were my most formative years.

I'm now a writer, editor, and artist currently living in Los Angeles.

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