“She’s got eyes of deepest blue
He’s got hair that’s green
Everybody’s got nice stuff but me
I wish I had the kind of cash
To make heads turn when I walk past
I wish I could live in luxury
Everybody’s got nice stuff but me…”
-The Dead Milkmen – “Everybody’s Got Nice Stuff But Me”
As our bus pulled away from Oxford [...]
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Went out swimming, got hit by a jet-ski.
The price some pay for a simple life
Thank goodness for the library! After a week in Aus I’ve found a source for free, reliable, internet. We joined the library at Noarlunga yesterday and I spent an hour in wireless surfing bliss. It would have been more than an hour but apparently there is a download limit that I exceeded fairly rapidly. I [...]
Hong kong dollars and Indian cents, English pounds and Eskimo pence
“Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
AM, the FM, the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?”
-The Clash – “The Magnificent Seven”
The fact that we arrived in Sweden yesterday unbruised and still speaking to one another is testament to [...]
Great Interview of the Week: Beware of charismatic populists leading private armies
Most of my interviewing lately has been of bands and posted over at A Free Man. But I haven’t abandoned the format on this site and I’ve got a cracker for you today!
I am a huge fan of podcasts. I listen to all my favorite American radio programs as podcasts, which helps to assuage the [...]
Great Interview Week: A Shooter Girl Goes to Paris
I was thrilled when I drew Jennifer from No Place Like It for my second go at the Great Interview Experiment. Like your underwhelming correspondent, Jennifer is an expat (a Canadian in Paris) dragged overseas in a net of romantic entanglement with a furriner. Like myself, she seems happy to stay in her adopted home. [...]
Super Sleeper
Living abroad as an expatriate can be a slightly disorienting experience and one of the ways of keeping one’s equilibrium is to surround oneself with the vestiges of home. Some expats take this to the extreme – making little replicas of their homeland wherever they go (this is why there are so many English pubs [...]
Red beans and rice
Something about the Thames bursting its banks for the second time in six months put me in the mood for one of the Big Easy’s most famous exports today. Like all of my favorite southern foods, this one required a little bit of fiddling to compensate for ingredients that aren’t easy to find here in [...]
Disaster narrowly averted (or how Dr. O’C saved the family from a year of misfortune)
“And so we’re told this is the golden age
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year’s Day…”
-U2 – “New Year’s Day”
Everyone who grew up in the deep South knows that Hoppin’ John and collards bring good luck for the [...]
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