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Aaron

Get me out of this.

About Me


Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too

I was gambling in Havana
I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Dad, get me out of this
..

My Interests

Writing, oil painting, reading.

I'd like to meet:



Well, maybe just a little bit.

Music:

Eclectic.

Movies:

Henry and June, Dangerous Liasons, Barfly, Almost Famous, American Beauty, Pleasantville, Swimming With Sharks, Hurly Burley, Gosford Park, Die Hard, Heat, Casino Royale, Memento, Pan's Labyrinth, The Secret of Nimh, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Big Trouble in Little China, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, all the Aliens movies except the one Joss Whedon helped write, and etc.

Television:

House, Studio 60, Heroes, Black Donnellys, Rome, Boston Legal, West Wing, Twin Peaks, BSG, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Shield, Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Firefly, Justice League, Spaced, Sopranos, etc.

Books:

Anything by John Fowles, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Greer, James Lord, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Terry Pratchett, Oscar Wilde, Alan Moore, William Langewiesche, Robert M Pirsig, James Clavell, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, _House of Leaves_ by Mark Z. Danielewski, _Moveable Feast_ by Hemingway, _Go_ by John Clellon Holmes, _Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay_ by Michael Chabon, _The Crimson Petal and the White_ by Michael Faber, _The Alchemist_ by Paul Coelho, George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, _Saloon Society_ by Bill Manville, Neal Gaiman's Sandman series, _Fables_ by Bill Willingham, a lot of Asimov's stuff, _A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose_ by B. R. Myers, _A Tale of Two Cities_ by Dickens, _The Tender Bar_, and etc.

Heroes:

Murrow, Mark Steiner, John Stewart, Steven Colbert, and Liviu Librescu.

My Blog

A robot...

Done at coffee (Red Emma's) yesterday with pencil, coffee, and an india ink wash.  Two more and I'll have the buffer ready to go....
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST

Well, that went well.

If you are pictured in the above photograph, taken by Jeff, I hate you.NOT visible in the photograph are the five bottles of jager, three coolers of beer, and any possibilities of anyone present ever ...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:24:00 PST

Wasps attack tourists in ancient fortress.

I don't remember the exact figure now, but something like 250 people were injured.Take a look at this comment from the Fark thread discussing the incident... ..> Snakeyes 2007-08-28 11:22:03 AM &nbs...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:49:00 PST

Phone clip ruckus.

If you're REALLY bored, look at this Fark thread where a fashion article creates a giant flame war on whether it makes you a jackass or not to wear your phone clipped to your belt....
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:35:00 PST

Are you Amy Winehouse?

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Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:27:00 PST

More info on Radioactive Boy who attempted to build a reactor in his mom’s potting shed.

Radioactive Boy Scout original article now online Posted by David Pescovitz, August 24, 2007 9:00 PM | | Book | Comments (0) Earlie...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:19:00 PST

Toronto Urban Spelunking & Blog attack!

I've got an upset stomach and are having to wait for it to settle before I can cook dinner.  Since I have nothing better to do, I might as well post all the blogs I've been meaning to for the las...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:12:00 PST

One Life to Live’s 10,000 episode Promo

Aired today....see if you can spot anyone. ...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:18:00 PST

Tony Snow resigning, along with some more folks apparently.

Water's rising.
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

More Gonzales stuff.

Here.
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:01:00 PST