L. Roy Aiken
Media Fog Machines and Conspiracy Theories
A Post-America public service kind of post I hope will encourage and entertain in the course of educating. Or something.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 20, 20213 min read
Random Notes on the New Normal, High Summer 2021
I used to hang my facemasks over my music sheet stand close to my desk. Last week I put them in my winter sock drawer.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 20, 20212 min read
Clarifying the Propaganda
Wherever you see this flat, generic art, you can be sure you’re being lied to about something.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 15, 20213 min read
Unspoken Truces, Unknown Alliances
More notes as the smoke clears in Post-America.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 10, 20214 min read
“There Is No Need To Be Upset”
Sitting poolside, enjoying the decline.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 5, 20214 min read
Crossing the Spine of Summer
Notes following a landmark Independence Day, 2021.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 5, 20212 min read
I Have Lived Long Enough
All the people I’d wanted to impress
with my poems and novels and stuff
left this Earth a long time ago.
I have no idea who my audience is.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 4, 20219 min read
A Real Honest-to-Awful Post-Apocalypse 4th of July
...or something better beginning.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jun 14, 20211 min read
2020 Nostalgia: Dance Fever Death Pandemic!
So much has already disappeared down the media’s memory hole, but there’s so much too many of us cannot, will not forget.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jun 13, 20211 min read
Dandruff on the Shoulders of Giants
These are our world's leaders. Don't like it, build your own world government!
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L. Roy Aiken
May 18, 20212 min read
Our Final Evenings Dining Out
I’m not saying never, but it’ll be the next best thing.
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L. Roy Aiken
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Reflections on the Great Cat-tastrophe, One Year into Its Aftermath
More than a legend passed. More than an age. An entire reality went over the Rainbow Bridge with Otis T. Cat.
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 21, 20211 min read
The Lord’s Gym
I could riff all day on this, and as full of cuss and coffee as I am at this glorious Sunday dawn, I just might.
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L. Roy Aiken
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Towards a More Monastic Faith, Part 1
Oh, they had to get me started. Which is a good thing, considering how long this blog has been dark.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 21, 20204 min read
COVID-19's Most Famous Fatality No One Talks About
…because the fact that Rock is dead, once and for all, does not reflect well upon us.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Thoughts on the Night of the Fourth Sunday in Advent
December is the strangest month on our calendar.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 7, 20201 min read
October Evenings, 2020
The moon wastes no time
climbing the cold black bones of the pin oak I could have watched burn yellow forever.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 6, 20207 min read
The Living Death of the Institutions
We've seen so many things change slowly, now all at once.
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 30, 20201 min read
Fatherly Advice to My Old Fatherless Self
It's been years since you've suffered the need to tell people what you're up to.
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