by aaron | Jan 18, 2017 | reviews
I recently read Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles. The fact that I’m only now writing a review about a book that was first published in France in 1998 clearly demonstrates how far behind the times I am. Perhaps sometimes late is...
by aaron | Jan 15, 2017 | Essays, reviews
2016 was a rough year for cultural figures. No, I’m not talking about the 17 (yikes) Republican Presidential candidates, each of whom was in fact quite good for culture, though beyond writing SNL-styled spoofs they had the nerve to call their...
by aaron | Jan 10, 2017 | Essays
Let’s wrap up this little essay extravaganza on 2016 with a few concluding thoughts. I know I’ve likely sounded like a shit-spraying sour-puss this past week: sometimes that’s just how it goes. It’s been a lot of words, and to those...
by aaron | Jan 5, 2017 | Essays
(This essay is part of an ongoing series looking back at 2016. You can read the others in this series here.) I’d like to take a moment and talk about, and ultimately to, Evangelical Christians. I grew up more-or-less one of these...
by aaron | Jan 4, 2017 | Essays
(This essay is the third in a series reflecting on 2016. You can read the first essay here and the second one here.) In these ongoing thoughts about the year 2016, today’s topic is America, a country where far too many of us got...