Happy 64th, Dad!
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And yes, I did forget to send a card. Pretend that this is it.
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Archive for February, 2010
When I get older, losing my hair
Most Novembers I break down and cry
I keep thinking of the scene in “As Good As It Gets” when Jack Nicholson’s character gets a bit tearful after returning Greg Kinnear’s dog. He exclaims with a grim chuckle:
“Over a dog! Over an ugly dog!”
I know how Melvin Udell felt. My dog wasn’t ugly, but he was damn stupid. He has been gone [...]
And if I weren’t a civil servant, I’d have a place in the colonies
Often, what inspires me to write is some song or the other playing in the background while I’m doing something else. Last night, for example, I was cooking our Pancake Tuesday dinner and this track from 80’s greats Camper van Beethoven came on the old iPod.
…And if I weren’t a civil servant, I’d have a [...]
Walking down the street carrying a baseball bat
War has broken out in Australia. Well, in our household not the whole nation. Actually, to be completely accurate, not even the whole household. Boy Z and I are at war.* With rats.
The months since we had we had to put Timmins down have been tough for a number of reasons. There is the natural [...]
King Solomon, he never lived round here
It is time for this vaccination/autism nonsense to stop.
Last week, British medical journal “The Lancet” retracted a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues that initiated that panic over a purported link between MMR vaccines and autism. This followed a censure of Wakefield issued by the UK’s General Medical Council for unethical behavior. The Lancet’s editor says [...]
This life is sweet. You’re dancin’ in the street.
To those of you shoveling snow or scraping the ice off your windshield or grieving the meteorological predictions of an amphibious rodent I have one thing to say:
Suck it, Northern Hemisphere losers.
February rocks!
Now when you manage to get out of your parkas and your fingers thaw, go and check out my post on The Greenists today. [...]
Music and passion were always the fashion
Not Max, our now five month old son, doesn’t get a lot of face time here at A Free Man. This accurately reflects his position in real life, squarely in the shadow of his older brother. Boy Z walks and talks and runs and throws and hits a cricket ball and thus earns far more [...]
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