So, to get started, the list of books I bought in June 2010: T.C. Boyle – The Road To Wellville T.C. Boyle – Descent Of Man Charles Bukowski – South of No North Charles Bukowski – Post Office Elmore Leonard – Get Shorty Elmore Leonard – Glitz Elmore Leonard – Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard – [...]
I have this thing about buying books. The problem is I don’t always read them. Hell, most of the time I don’t any of them, let alone even some of them. But that doesn’t stop me from buying them. I think part of my “problem” is rooted in the fact that I like to collect [...]
Richard Thomas’ debut novel, Transubstantiate. The neo-noir novel, released July 1st, is getting a lot of early praise, including the likes of respected authors such as Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, and Joey Goebel. And if that’s not enough of an endorsement you suck Richard and I share the same birthday, and it’s a proven [...]
In trying out my new digital camera I took some pictures of my bookshelf(s). Here is what I got:
I was never a big picture guy. The future was never something I planned for, or even really thought much about. What mattered was what I could see. If things stayed the same, so be it; if something changed, I’d deal with it. It wasn’t some cognoscente carpe diem ethos; I was lazy, sort of [...]
I was in one of those bloated rubber Sumo suits the first time I saw her. There were dozens of people watching my roommate and I make fools of ourselves as we bashed into each other with a reckless abandon, trying our best to fend off laughter long enough to knock each other on their [...]
[Writer's Note: I should have given the people within these stories names by now; it would have been easier for both of us. Starting with this essay there will be names given to the characters important enough to earn the random pulling of them from a baby name book. Also, when possible, there will be [...]
So during yet another a brief hiatus from the December January Album essays I’m taking a few minutes to list my Favorite Albums from the first decade of the 2000′s. If you want to get technical, I suppose this is a Best Of list for me, considering I liked these albums the best. But really, [...]
When you’re a kid time has a way of passing with the speed and urgency of an elderly turtle with four broken legs on his way to visit his proctologist. Important events—Christmas, your birthday, the end of the school day—always seem forever fleeting, forever away. In fact, “This is taking forever” seems to be right [...]
So I’ve been asked about the Album Essays. I’m going to finish them soon. I picked a bad month to try and knock them out. The holidays were time consuming. And I got sidetracked playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I’m not going to lie. But I’m having too much fun to give up [...]
