by aaron | Jul 27, 2015 | blog
In the fall of 2007, Radiohead released their seventh album, In Rainbows, via the internet. For all its simplicity the price was exceptionally radical: you paid whatever you wanted to pay. It was an awesome, What the—really?!? moment courtesy of one of the most...
by aaron | Jul 22, 2015 | Travels
Readers who’ve been following this journey will remember that in my last post I was driving along an unmarked, unpaved, under-populated road somewhere in the middle of Nowhere, OR, USA, when my car began alerting me to all the oil it was leaking. The timing of...
by aaron | Jul 16, 2015 | Travels
In the town of Dayville, OR, there is a Wendy’s. I was returning to my car in the parking lot of that very Wendy’s when a man called out to me, Hey look, it’s a study in Jettas!! He was pointing at my car, a Jetta (borrowed), and his car, also a...
by aaron | Jul 12, 2015 | Travels
Dedicated readers will recall that in my last post I was in Biggs Junction, OR, getting gas and talking with the station attendant about that famous collection of rocks in China: Stonehenge. Fast-forward approximately four minutes: the tank is full and I run into the...
by aaron | Jul 7, 2015 | Travels
A couple weeks back I decided to go for a drive and ended up at Stonehenge. I know what you’re thinking—Aaron, what nonsense is this?! You live in Seattle and that’s simply not physically possible! (Unless your lifelong dream of owning Herbie the Love Bug...