Archive for 2010

So if Santa Claus ain’t Daddy then I’m gonna tell on them.

Hope all your Christmases were as merry as ours.
(21st Century Xmas by Skype)
(Santa knows what boys want.)
(Christmas rasslin’)

(Redux.)
Happy Holidays from A Free Family.
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Thanks to Seattle Dad for the tip on Reverend Horton Heat’s Christmas album “We Three Kings”, which is available from .

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icon for podpress  Reverend Horton Heat "Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy" [2:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Some bricks now, baby, let’s build a home.

Exhausted.
We spent all day yesterday packing and all day today moving into our new house. Our new house that we own*. The first house we’ve ever owned. And if all goes well, the last we ever own.
It’s a big old rambling 1940s home on a good sized block in the hills about 10 km from [...]

 
icon for podpress  The White Stripes [1:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Robbery! Muggery! Aussie skullduggery!

The Aussies were seriously lacking in skullduggery at the Adelaide Test last weekend. But that didn’t stop us from having a good time at the Adelaide Oval. Even if it did seem to involve a full day of watching England’s mercenary South African batsman Kevin Pietersen spend the whole day smacking Australian bowlers around the [...]

 
icon for podpress  The Duckworth Lewis Method "Jiggery Pokery" [3:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Find the heat over a bay or in the scraps of someone’s plate.

This will be our third summertime Christmas and I must say that I’m warming to it. I don’t know if it is having young kids to enjoy it with or whether the seasonal reversal removes the S.A.D. component of my typical holiday dread, but I find myself looking forward to Christmas this year. If you’ve [...]

By now I know the answer’s always in the question

I’ve just sent the invoice for three chapters that I wrote for inclusion in a biochemistry textbook. It isn’t a heap of money, but it is the most I’ve ever been paid for writing. It always feels good making money for doing something that I love. Not that it is that common, mind, but nonetheless. [...]

 
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A man must have a shed to keep him sane.

If there’s anything on god’s green earth better than a fresh Queensland mango, I’d love to know about it. Firm, silky, the taste of a golden spring afternoon. Absolute perfection.
They think so too…

What hasn’t even approached perfection this year is the performance of my beloved Georgia Bulldogs. I haven’t been writing about them, and clearly [...]

 
icon for podpress  XTC "Fruit Nut": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Everything’s gonna get lighter, even if it never gets better.

Forget all your politics for a while.
Let the color schemes arrive.
I knew it would happen eventually. The American Left and the American Right have moved so far apart that they’ve backed into one another. I heard both MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann and talk radio screecher Mark Levin shouting about new safety regulations at American airports. [...]

 
icon for podpress  Mates of State "Get Better" [3:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there…

Well, it has been a little while, hasn’t it? I sort of had a spell of blog fatigue there coupled with a spurt of seasonal affective social networking withdrawal, but really I’ve just been too busy. Yeah, yeah, everyone’s busy but for those few loyal readers/family members here’s a litany of excuses:

I have a new [...]

 
icon for podpress  DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" [2:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hello Luke and Oli!

From your Australian cousins…

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I’m wondering how the glass will hit

The new dog, in a cyclone of sharp little puppy teeth and a flood of puppy pee, has arrived. Boy Z is besotted, Dr. O’C resigned and Not Max slightly confused. Along with the peals of laughter and declarations of love, however, have been fits of tears. Puppies nip. It’s what they do. Not Max [...]

 
icon for podpress  Mates of State "Now" [2:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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