I haven’t talked much about the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party this year. Especially when one considers that, as October wound down last year, I dedicated an entire week to a diatribe of loathing against the University of Florida. I invited the enemy into my bosom to speak in favor of his loathsome, repitilian team. [...]
Archive for October, 2009
I was always told that you have to have the balls to break down, now I’m older I’m not too sure
29 Oct 2009 at 22:20
A Free Man
A Life In Music, Australia, British Artists, Dr. O'C, Music, parenting
This week has been a grueling battle over sleep. On one side, two exhausted parents. On the other, two young boys to whom going to bed is tantamount to defeat. More than once during the hostilities, both Dr. O’C and I have daydreamed about the halcyon days before we had kids. The quiet, the leisurely [...]
Gomez "78 Stone Wobble" [4:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Gomez "Little Pieces" [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadCongratulations to me, many happy returns
I’m finally starting to get the odd smile from this young fellow. And vice versa. I feel like we’re starting to make friends.
Time is tight as the semester comes roaring to an end and I’ve used up all my blogging time talking shit over at The Greenists. Quite literally. Enjoy.
I hope to be back toward [...]
He’s usually really wired on that cheap trucker speed
Back in my late teens and early twenties I had a particular fondness for White Crosses, the little bronchodilater pills that one could by legally at gas stations all over the country. They were ephedrine tablets, designed for folks with asthma but used with great gusto by dieters and for recreational purposed. And also by long [...]
They tell me that you are going away, what makes you want to leave?
I’m here only tentatively. Peeking shyly from around the corner. Trying to build up the courage to join the crowd in the center of the dance floor doing the Soulja Boy or whatever the kids are doing in the center of the dance floor these days.
Reminds me of Junior High School dances.
I’m not being coy. [...]
Del McCoury, Doc Watson and Mac Wiseman "Live and Let Live" [3:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadColors inside your head go spinning around like a ferris wheel
Quiet. It is going to be fairly quiet around these parts for a while. I’m under water at work. Learning new subjects, new course delivery methods, new software. Exam time approaches rapidly…
Actually, that is all kind of crap. I am busy, that’s true. But I’ve always been able to find time at the end of [...]
Game Day: Goodbye you suckers and steady bad luckers
I think I was far too gentlemanly the other day. In the time since Here in Franklin’s guest post went up, I’ve had some time to reflect on the Tennessee Volunteers and their fans. I said that it had been a long time since the bad old 90’s when the Georgia Bulldogs played the role [...]
The one that you’re trusting suspiciously dusting the sill
And exhale.
Thursday morning, my Head of School knocked on the door of my office as I was taking off my coat. I invited him in to have a seat and the solemn look on his face nearly made me wilt. I’ve been living on annual contracts with the university since I got here and October [...]
For some strange reason it had to be, it was all a dream about Tennessee
Never let it be said that A Free Man doesn’t welcome opposing points of view. As the Georgia Bulldogs head north to Knoxville for a date with the Tennessee Volunteers this Saturday, I’ve brought the enemy to my bosom and given them a chance to speak.
For the three years I was at the University [...]
If I had hands I’d be a writer, if I had brains I’d be a man
This was going to be a different kind of post. I was going to write about how, come the middle of August every year when I was in elementary school, I got bored. How at some point during the dog days, summer ground to a halt and I got excited about going back to school. [...]
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