I have a confession to make. Among the podcasts that I listen to regularly are highlights from Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly’s radio shows. This is not due to a case of closet conservatism or liberal masochism. It’s partially entertainment value. For example, some of the Hannity podcasts start with an announcer declaring “Hannity listeners [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Bozzer 4 Mayor
As I am neither a British citizen or permanent resident, I can take British politics with even more of a grain of salt than American politics. However, if I were allowed to vote in the UK, I would probably vote Tory. There’s three reasons for that. First I always go for the underdog, and as [...]
Antenatal anticipation
Shortly after I told my friend Robert that Dr O’C was pregnant, he said “You’re doing the NCT classes, right? You must do those, they’re brilliant.” This was about 12 weeks on, so I hadn’t realized that 1) everyone who’s been near a child has an opinion about pregnancy and child-rearing and 2) they [...]
Random Tuesday: When Blogging is a Slog
Tuesday seems to be a dry day for the creative juices. After struggling over lunch with a post about our antenatal class (probably see that tomorrow), I’ve given up and decided to nick someone else’s idea again. So, thanks to “Dave’s Blog” here’s the lazy man’s Tuesday blog – let the iPod work for [...]
New Music Monday: Spoon – “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
“Thugs and stick and bats and balls
For nuclear dicks with dialect drawls
They come from a parking lot town
Where nothing lives in the sun…”
-Spoon “Don’t Make Me A Target”
There’s something to be said for economy in an album. While there’s certainly a place for the sprawling rock opus – The Beatles’ White Album, Rolling Stones “Exile [...]
MP3 of the Week: Peder – “The Sour”
I get a few “Song of the Day” podcasts and a lot of them sound the same, standard sort of indie rock fare. But while listening to a dozen or so of them for this week, this song by Peder (from KCRW) stood out as something a little bit different. I know nothing about this [...]
Political Friday: The Denial Twist
“So now you’re mad, denying the truth,
And it’s getting in the wisdom in the back of your tooth,
You need ta spit it out, in a telephone booth,
While you call everyone that you know…”
The White Stripes – “Denial Twist”
One of the nice things about being an expat is that there is a kind of buffer between [...]
Headlines and hedgehogs and hot dogs (again)
It’s a rainy Thursday here in Oxford – about the 500th rainy Thursday in a row, and that’s put me in the mood for a recap of what’s going on in the world and here at afreeman.org.
Budget deficit narrows to $205 billion
This is sort of like saying that your waistline has narrowed to 58 inches. [...]
The Last Remains of the Dodo
Hey, kids–look at this
it’s the fall of the world’s own optimist
I could get back up if you insist
but you’ll have to ask politely
cause the eggshells I’ve been treading
couldn’t spare me a beheading
and I’ll know I had it coming
from a Caesar who was only slumming….
-Aimee Mann – “The Fall of the World’s Own Optimist*
Oxford has been [...]
New(ish) Music Monday: Kings of Leon – “Because of the Times”
“This is just the way of the world “, Joe said,
“I had to put a bullet into his head.”
Then lit up a cigarette
Decided to call his fat friend Fred
Well he said “Fred I just killed a man
Caught him laying with my girlfriend
Now they’re both dead, people can be so cold when they’re dead…”
-The Kings of [...]
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