by aaron | Oct 13, 2012 | Essays
In the four years since the Seattle Sounders, the local Major League Soccer team, began playing in town I’ve been to some twenty home games. By no means am I a die-hard fan: I don’t know a large number of the players and I’m yet to paint my face...
by aaron | Sep 9, 2012 | Essays
Once again, it’s been a while since I last wrote on this space. I wish I could plead some grand excuse—a no-punches-pulled, one-on-one interview with President Obama; a drug-smuggling caper gone terribly awry in the jungles of Costa Rica; a tragic wardrobe...
by aaron | Aug 6, 2012 | Essays
I’ve written previously about some of the characters who exercise beside me at the gym. Recently I’ve had my eye on a guy I think of in my head as Rick Moranis. I think of him this way because he looks exactly like—and I do mean exactly...
by aaron | Jul 24, 2012 | Essays
When we had asked him his name he said, “Larry,” and he smiled with awkward excitement before adding, in a high pitched and self-amused giggle, “or Lorenzo if you’re in Italy.” We were not in Italy. We were in a park in Seattle, which is...
by aaron | Jul 2, 2012 | Essays
Generally speaking, our local news here in the Northwest is pretty tame: sometimes a baby Orca is spotted in the Sound or a kitty gets stuck in a tree, and local editors often have to make do with watery pablum about the new ferris wheel on the skyline or this...
by aaron | Jun 22, 2012 | Essays
It’s that time of year again: this Sunday is Seattle’s Gay Pride Parade, which means the Hill where I live has gotten FESTIVE! Rainbow flags hang from shop windows, light posts are striped in colors, and despite the ceaseless rains (welcome to summer in...