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. [...]
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 | DownloadThere’s something about becoming a father, even the second time around, that cleaves reality away temporarily. And that’s where I am today. It’s the middle of what should be a busy work week and it just doesn’t matter. I’m missing lectures and practicals and tutorials and it’s all OK. Because all that matters right now [...]
I’ve never been much of a devotee of the idea of ‘love at first sight’. Lust at first sight? Absolutely. I’ve ridden that train to its terminus more times than I care to count.Usually with predictable results.
But love at first sight is the stuff of bad fiction and the fantasies of teenage girls. Love takes [...]
We’re going to try and force the issue with A Free Fetus tonight. Boy Z made his intentions to appear known about 24 hours after a spicy lunch at Red Star Noodle Bar in Oxford. We’re booked in for a fiery curry at Charminar in Brighton tonight. If that fails, there are other options…
What? I’m [...]
Last weekend was ruined because of a self-induced work backlog that kept me in front of the computer for most of Saturday and Sunday. This weekend was nearly ruined due to some virus that Dr. O’C brought home from work. But with ample and appropriate combinations of various pharmaceuticals, I managed to stay upright for [...]
Arcade Fire "Wake Up (Where the Wild Things Are Version)" [1:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadDr. O’C and I are trying to clean up our language. We’re not sailors or anything, but both are fond of the odd invective to hammer home a point during a heated ‘debate’. But Boy Z has reached the stage at which he repeats, to the best of his ability, everything that comes out of [...]
Things I’m grateful for on this Friday night:
This song, one of the most beautiful ever written, and having Boy Z try to sing along with the chorus when I put him to bed last night.
“Blabeer, bye”
Feeling little kicks from Dr. O’C’s swelling abdomen when we are in bed together at night. It’s as close to [...]
Since we got so many great recommendations, I thought that an update on the antenatal music was in order.
A Free Fetus is a dancer, much moreso than Boy Z was in utero. Maybe #2 is going to be the musically inclined child. Almost everything that we play seems to elicit a response. Sometimes – somewhat [...]
She never had an overwhelming desire to be a mother – I was the one that pushed kids – but she’s turned out to be a great one. Patient where I fly off the handle, vigilant where I’m distracted, quietly confident where I’m shrilly anxious.
In short, longed for or not, she is everything Boy Z [...]
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