Well, gentle readers, you’ve been incredibly tolerant of my college football obsession this season and for that I’m grateful. Many of you will be happy to hear that this weekend marks the end of the regular season and thus, the end of Deep South Smack Talk. But we’re going out with a bang – it’s [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Gone fishin’
A Free Man is taking the day off from the internets to do some of that tedious work stuff, but I didn’t want to leave my gentle readers high and dry. Some of you may remember that Chris of Formerly Fun was kind enough to give me the day off last week with her guest [...]
Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s the one holiday that is about gratitude, the one holiday that hasn’t been contaminated with rampant consumerism (although I imagine turkey farmers do pretty well this time of year). It’s all about friends and family and cooking up an indulgent dinner in the gloomy tail of autumn. For the [...]
The Birthday Boy’s Mom
Today is my birthday. I’m sure that your gift is on its way Down Under and I’ll give you a pass on it being late due to the long travel time from the rest of the world. I’m officially in my late 30’s as of today and I’m beginning to see some of the inevitable [...]
Finger Painting
All of you stay at home parents have my respect. One day a week of it leaves me feeling like I’ve been lobotomized with a butter knife. Don’t get me wrong, I love it and am grateful that I have the time to spend with the boy. Call me a masochist.
Thanks for the finger painting [...]
But no one ever gets the truth from plastic man
About midway through Yann Martell’s Man Booker Prize winning novel “The Life of Pi”, the protagonist finds himself washed up on an island populated solely by meerkats. After a time on the island he begins to suspect that all is not as it seems – the meerkats take to the trees every night and one [...]
I am helium raven and this movie is mine
It was a perfect Spring Sunday in South Australia today.
In the spirit of rebirth and new beginnings, I thought it would be a graceful gesture to make peace with my avian adversaries. Some of you may remember that winter was awash with bellicose encounters with our fine feathered friends. Well, it has been a long [...]
Are you locked up in a world that’s been planned out for you?
There’s no football this week, well no Georgia football this week. But I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with having a guest do my job for me on Friday – I am, like the Dude, a lazy man. In fact, in an effort to improve the quality of writing here at A Free Man, I’m thinking of [...]
Pretty Hate Machine
It appears to have become, by default, 90’s week here at A Free Man. The thing is, that I don’t really like getting too deep into really personal things on this site. As Jamie correctly noted the other day, I present a persona on this site – one that I’m comfortable with people seeing, one [...]
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