by aaron | Apr 28, 2014 | reviews
Earlier today, while doing some research for a series of essays I hope to post in the coming months, I stumbled down a YouTube wormhole and found a video review of Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 novel, Blood Meridian. The book, like nearly all of McCarthy’s work,...
by aaron | Feb 27, 2014 | reviews
(I’ll begin with an apology due to my having caught a rather nasty head cold this post is coming a week later than I’d anticipated.) I’d like to use this space to make a nod to the past. On February 21, 1992, Chris Bell’s album, I Am The Cosmos...
by aaron | Jan 30, 2014 | reviews
I’ve long held that the most quotable movie in history is The Big Lebowski, which, if you’re creative enough, has a line for every imaginable situation in life (and isn’t being creative enough really the point, and the challenge, and ultimately, the...
by aaron | Jan 4, 2014 | reviews
I received an email from a friend the other day who had kindly taken the time to read my second story, The Me-Of-Now. He asked a fairly common question, How did you come up with this idea? Without getting lost in my friend’s question (because the true but...
by aaron | Dec 25, 2013 | reviews
Twenty years ago my parents purchased me a CD player for Christmas. It was a rectangular plastic black box that housed a single CD, played analog tapes as well as recorded CD’s to tape, tuned-in the radio, and was portable—what at the time some called a...
by aaron | Jan 8, 2013 | reviews
On this day in 1935 in the tiny town of Tupelo, Mississippi, a King was born. That’s right: today marks the 78th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley. God bless us all, everyone! There’s hasn’t been one like him since and there probably never...