Why didn’t those of you with multiple spawn warn me that having two kids was four times as much work as having one kid?* I might have taken action – a vow of abstinence after Boy Z was born or something.
My Spring Break thus far has been a battle. A battle with Not Max over [...]
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Believe me, all our days here are unsure.
I’m just pulling on a line and sometimes it pulls on me
Boy Z has been swimming since he was about four months old. By swimming I don’t mean the 200m butterfly, of course, but various water baby classes both in Oxford and here in Adelaide. They allow the kids to get comfortable in the water and teach basic safety, something that we felt was important for [...]
It’s all been done
It’s starting to feel like Autumn in South Australia – a little bit cooler, shorter days, the occasional drop of moisture in the air – which means that we’ll be doing less of this….
…on Boy Z and Papa Party Days.
But not to worry. We’ve been working on some indoor entertainment. A lot of you may [...]
Give me back the Berlin wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
Well, this week kind of got away from me. Add moving house and a continued lack of internet at home; multiply by the normal amount of day-to-day crap and what you get is one blog post a week apparently. The lack of home internet thing is the biggest factor, I tend to read and write [...]
From Thunder Bay to Saskatchewan
I was in the office for my writing job today. For those of you who are new around here, one of my jobs is as a scientific writer for a company that tests anti-cancer therapeutics. There are a couple of people in the office of whom I’m particularly fond. Our receptionist is a young Canadian [...]
Yearning for a rant. A richly raucous rant. (Oh, and the Number 5 album of 2008)
Those of you who have been around for a while know that A Free Man originated as a site that was cleverly named after myself – my full name. I started to get a little nervous about internet pirates and also wanted to prevent coworkers or old high school acquaintances from finding the site. I [...]
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21 Oct 2008 at 10:26
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Canada, Canadian Artists, Dr. O'C, Family, Florida, Missouri, Timmins, travel
The world’s your oyster shell
So what’s that funny smell
You eat the bivalve anyway
And you’re sick with salmonella
You get your Ph.D.
How happy you will be
When you get a job at Wendy’s
And are honored with employee of the month…
Toad, who is rapidly becoming my favorite music blogger, has been writing a lot about “Dad Rock” lately. You [...]
MP3s of the Week: What do you get when you cross Kanye West, Wilco and the ‘85 Bears?
04 Sep 2008 at 15:17
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American artists, Canadian Artists, Lo-fi, MP3 of the Week, Making music in your bedroom, Mash-ups, Music, Swedish artists, folk
Starting off with an old favorite. Okkervil River, who featured on A Free Man’s Top 10 last year is back next week with their fifth full length record, “The Stand Ins”. I’ve heard a bit of it and it sounds as good or better than last year’s gem “The Stage Names”. If you’ve not heard [...]
MP3s of the Week: Dandys, Swedes & Japanese
14 Jun 2008 at 19:22
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American artists, British Artists, Canadian Artists, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Indie Pop, MP3 of the Week, Psychedelia
Let’s kick it off with the vastly underrated Wolf Parade. The Canadian quartet’s 2005 debut “Apologies to the Queen Mary” was one of that year’s best albums that you might not have heard. Their sophomore effort, “At Mount Zoomer, is due out in North America on Tuesday from Sub Pop. What I’ve heard so far [...]
MP3s of Weeks Past
Before I blaze in with my new favorites, I have a few new (well, new at the time) artists to whom I want to give a bit of press. For those of you that were paying attention, I had hoped to feature the music of the Sunshine State. Well, Florida was a musical bust so [...]
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