Oakland Review of Books

Aaron Bady

8 posts

More people should take a silly thing really seriously, for years and years and years, and then call it a book and throw a party. What else is the point of being alive?

A review of a book by someone who has given us money • Aaron Bady •

Sinners is WAY too much movie, a level of movie one might even say filmmakers are proscribed from producing. Period drama about race AND vampire slasher? A genre movie with Ideas? In this economy?

Talking Greatness to Death • Aaron Bady •

I'm kind of glad that the people who made these ads know they don't want you to know they're surveilling you, that they know you won't like it.

Surveilling the Seen • Aaron Bady •

Mostly a place to get away to, from San Francisco.

What did Mark Twain think of Oakland? • Aaron Bady •

But even if a university can be many things, and occasionally still might be, the one thing that a University like Berkeley’s mostly is, and will be, always and forever, is a pile of capital.

War is Over (Because UC Wants it) • Aaron Bady •

Until recently, Huchiun Park was too new for street view to show you anything but the recently emptied space it was built on. Its young trees are still too small

Recently Cleared • Aaron Bady •

How is Future Man—who looks like a pirate these days—STILL from the future? He’s still the only person in the world who plays the instrument he invented.

Left of Old • Aaron Bady •

Little Free Libraries do not have card catalogs, so there is no way of knowing anything about their provenance.

Weeding out Nicholson Baker • Aaron Bady •