well will you look at that

There is a pattern I've slowly come to notice in which my age seems to increase by one year on a roughly annual basis. Today I have turned twenty-nine, and all is well.

Oh, and I wrote another review over at the Fill in the Gaps blog, this time on Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. You can read it here. McCarthy writes stark, brutal things, but the Old Testament themes he deals in transforms that violent content into a commentary on all the aspects of human nature most of us would rather ignore. My respect for the man and his prose grows with every novel I read, and I think it would be a shame if he isn't eventually awarded a Nobel on the order of Borges', Nabokov's, and Tolstoy's snubbings by the award committee.