my name is evin and i'm the yvette director here at the brookline book smith. i hope he will pick up on a hour calendars. we have great reading signed up with john and larry baliles next week. and michael owls well as the night of staff recommendations leader in the month. also, you may have noticed we are filming tonight. so if you could please make sure to turn off all sell phones and things like that, any machines you may have. you can follow all of our defense through the web site, brooklinebooksmith.com or you can purchase bugle editions. as we move into the presidential year you can be sure to hear a lot of butter were founding fathers, but they believed, but they said, what they meant to say, and certain parts of the constitution will doubtlessly be quoted again and again. tonight is not about any of that nonsense. it's about the other nonsense. because tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming back jay wexler, professor of law at boston university. in his first book, holy helabalouse he discovered the humorous road trip. in his new book the odd clauses h

the just plain odd, wexler sheds new light on the constitution in all its glory, and he is damn funny, too big so please join me in giving a big brookline welcome to professor jay wexler. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome everybody. thanks for coming out in the rain to this terrific bookstore. and thank you for hosting me here again. booktv is here filming, so when you have only come if you could keep your swearing to a minimum, that would be great. i was on booktv one of the time, in connection with my "holy hullabaloos" book and it was an event in new mexico which i thought went pretty well. and then a couple weeks later the event was on tv so i turned in, tuned in, and ready nervous because although i've been on television a couple times, not in a sustained way. so i was really concerned, and i turned it on, and about five minutes into it i realized every other sentence i say uh like an idiot. so i'm hiding under the blankets again in 50 minutes, into the talk i got up and i looked at my e-mail and i got this e-mail from somebody in hawaii. and it said, i wanted very much to hear what you had to say, however your habit of in

antiquated and just plain odd, wexler sheds new light on the constitution in all its glory, and he's damn funny too. so, please, join me in giving a big brookline welcome to professor jay wexler. [applause] >> thank you very much. welcome, everybody. thanks for coming out in the rain to this terrific bookstore, and thank you for hosting me here again m. booktv is here filming, so when you heckle me, if you could keep your swearing to a minimum, that would be great. [laughter] i was on booktv one other time before, a connection with my first book. it was an event in new mexico which i thought went pretty well, and then a couple weeks later the event was on tv, soi pz tuned in. i was pretty nervous although i had been on television a couple of times, not in a sustained way. and about five minutes into it i realized that every other sentence i say uh like an idiot, so i'm hiding under the blankets. [laughter] and 15 minutes into the talk i looked at this e-mail, and i got this e-mail from somebody in hawaii, and it said i wanted very much to hear what you had to say, however, your habit of interjecting uh repeatedly is so distracting that even you