by aaron | Jun 14, 2012 | Essays
Just over a year ago I wrote about Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, FL, who had decided to commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 with a little Quran barbecue, or what I liked to think of as a Quran-A-Q. Mr. Jones is back in the news, having shifted his public protests...
by aaron | Mar 28, 2012 | Essays
Today’s award for best public slipperiness goes, as it probably should it matters of licentiousness, to a Frenchman, Henri Leclerc. M. Leclerc is the lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF and one-time front-runner for the presidency of...
by aaron | Mar 26, 2012 | Essays
A front desk job. You greet people. You check them in. You answer the phones when they ring. Answer questions. Show people around. General stuff. Easy stuff. Should be fine. It was the first job I was able to find. I’d been wandering the streets of Seattle with...
by aaron | Mar 9, 2012 | Essays
In January 2001 I drove a small white Ford pickup truck from Montreal, Quebec, to the far northwest corner of America. A week after arriving I rented an apartment in Bellingham, a small mountain town located 90 miles north of Seattle and to my mind one of the most...
by aaron | Feb 20, 2012 | Essays
A couple months back I wrote a post about the spam I receive on this site. The other day I was curating users’ comments when I came across the following feedback from one Arianna Herbold, presented below verbatim: “When Someone said your site, I hope that...
by aaron | Feb 14, 2012 | Essays
Last week I wrote about the impending arrival of Valentine’s Day. In that post I suggested an alternative to the traditional gifts of flowers and jewelry by providing a link to the Bronx Zoo, where for a measly $10 one can have a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach...