Today is Not Max’s first birthday and I’m stuck in Whyalla, which smells remarkably like industrial solvents, diesel fuel and government money. Not stuck exactly, but on the other side of the state from my family. Story of my life right now. I love my job but she’s a needy mistress this semester, draining my [...]
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And you feel so right, but how come you can’t sleep at night?
In the suburbs
I learned to drive
And you told me we’d never survive
Grab your mother’s keys we’re leavin’…
In my younger days, when the stress tide was rising, I used to pop on my favourite record at the time, crank the volume up to maximum and bathe in an anodyne sonic sea. Cheaper than Valium and a [...]
I pull myself under the warm and soft blankets, this Australian winter
For their grandparents basking in an American sumer.
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One of my favourite albums of 2010 so far is Sun Kil Moon’s latest “Admiral Fell Promises”. Unreal acoustic guitar accompanied by Mark Kozelek’s plaintive vocals, perfect for the Australian winter. Buy it from .
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The more we move ahead the more we’re stuck in rewind
I think I have to stop fooling myself. At some point every day I decide that I’m going to take some time and, damn it, blog. But it just doesn’t happen. I’ve spent three days planning to write this little snippet of a post. Life is full. And priorities change. And time is spent, better [...]
She wore red dresses and left the wounded behind
I don’t really have time to write – it’s exam marking time – but I can’t stand seeing that beanie wearing, budgie smuggling, buffoon every time I open Safari anymore. So here’s a photo of Boy Z putting the moves on a cute blonde at a wedding we went to last night.
Because nothing brings that paternal [...]
Dwight Yoakam "Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)": Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadCoup d’etat in Australia?
Without an election, or even much drama, we have a new prime minister today. Julia Gillard, who will be Australia’s first female prime minister, took over from Kevin Rudd in a “bloodless coup“. Not as exciting as it sounds – it was actually a planned leadership vote in the Labor party, and Rudd stood down [...]
One for Daddy-O
I totally forgot that yesterday was Father’s Day in much of the Northern Hemisphere* until I saw PostSecret’s “Father’s Day Secrets“. And then I got all sappy and teary-eyed. As you do.
Especially over these ones:
That last one, in particular, got to me. I’ve noticed lately, particularly with Boy Z, this primal need for recognition from [...]
‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see.
I was feeding Not Max his dinner last night listening to some music, as you do, when the inimitable opening chords of “Free Bird” came on the iPod stereo. “Free Bird” is currently on my iPod because I’ve been watching the outstanding, if slightly raunchy, ‘Californication‘ lately on my commute to work. The song plays [...]
Solomon falls on his face in love with me.
Allie Larkin is a blogger and the co-founder of The Greenists. She’s also a friend of mine in that sort of odd, social media generation, never actually met her sort of way.
More auspiciously, however, her debut novel “STAY” is being released this week by Dutton.
I got my review copy last week but before I [...]
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
It is winter in Australia which means that it is football season it Australia. And by football, I don’t mean steroid stuffed giants in full body armor standing around for three plus hours, nor overpaid Brazilians kicking a round ball around for an hour and a half in the quest for a nil-nil draw. No, [...]
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