Photo: Sunset viewed from a ridge. Aguanga, CA.

About me, briefly: 25, male, engaged, construction worker. I write here less often than I used to; I come by now to read the good things that show up and to mess around. Say Hi.

Likes (in no particular order):

Authors:
Dennis Lehane, Larry McMurtry, Roger Zelazny, Peter Straub, Jonathan Shute, Kelly Link, Mark Helprin, Stephen Crane, Carl Sagan, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, Karen Joy Fowler

Films:
Paper Moon, Taxi Driver, Spirited Away, This is Spinal Tap, Cool Hand Luke, A Face in the Crowd, Arsenic and Old Lace, Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Odd Couple, Harold and Maude, Rosemary's Baby, L.A. Confidential, Airplane!, The Last Detail, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (noticing a pattern?)

Short Fiction:
"Toga Party," John Barth; "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner; "Poor Sailor," Sammy Harkham; "What you Eat," Ben Ehrenreich; "The Minor Wars," Kaui Hart Hemmings; "macs," Terry Bisson; "Lake of Dreams," Christopher Lockheart; many more.

Guest users (and talkative E2ers) can reach me at urbanastronomy at gmail. Cheers!