I haven’t talked much about the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party this year. Especially when one considers that, as October wound down last year, I dedicated an entire week to a diatribe of loathing against the University of Florida. I invited the enemy into my bosom to speak in favor of his loathsome, repitilian team. [...]
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I have to sing about the book I read
Thanks to Jen and Zen Mom for the heads up about Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read. I’m a big freedom of expression Lefty and I find censorship of any kind intolerable. I wrote a post about my experience with books and the people who ban them last year and didn’t [...]
Don’t you see what life here has done to me?
28 Sep 2009 at 22:11
A Free Man
Australia, Britain, Country, Florida, Georgia, USA, expatica, politics
I feel, of late, that I’ve been veering uncontrollably into the Daddy Blogger genre. I guess that’s what a new baby and two weeks of paternity leave will do to a guy. This bothers me a bit, because one of the things that keeps me interested in blogging is trying to write about a wide [...]
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store…
I’ve been in Australia long enough now that the local accent is starting to sound normal. Of course, that’s made easier by the fact that I’ve been living with an Australian for eight years, but still a sign that I’m beginning to feel at home in my new home.
I’ve been thinking a lot about accents [...]
So sleep tight baby, unfurrow your brow
Tom Petty’s first solo album, “Full Moon Fever”, always reminds me of Florida. More aptly, of leaving Florida. It came out in the spring of 1989, during the waning days of my time in high school. It was the soundtrack to my last summer in the Sunshine State – spent restless, irritable and discontent, waiting [...]
New Wilco, upcoming Wilco and near Wilco
Well, A Free Man is going to have a little more free time available (I’ll get to that post soon, I promise). One of the things I’d like to do with that free time is to get back to more frequent music blogging. So, let’s get started with that, shall we?
A Free Man favorite Wilco [...]
Before you start you’re already beat…
This post is Part 2 of a story I started yesterday. I can’t tell you what to do, but you’d be advised to read the first part first.
I’ve been going over the end of this story in my mind since last night and I realized that I stepped into a trap of my own design. [...]
America’s just a giant theme park. Put on them mouse ears and get in line.
A Free Family’s vacation continues and so do the guest posts. Today, I’ve got the pleasure of welcoming Mickey from The Prettiest Denny’s Waitress aboard. Mickey’s got the uncanny knack of making my laugh my ass off on a regular basis, so I couldn’t think of anyone I’d rather have captain the ship for a [...]
Beach baby
I’m working on something special for y’all this week – the sexy Neanderthal post I’ve been promising since Christmas – but I need one more day to finish it up. I suspect that some of you may be getting tired of glamourous Boy Z on an Australian beach photo. Well, here’s a change of pace, [...]
I was living in a devil town
I’m a fair way behind the pop cultural curve these days, particularly when it come to television. TV in Oz is, well, just very bad. It consists mostly of reality shows and last season’s American dramas and sit coms or – worse – Australian interpretations of last season’s American dramas and sit coms. So I [...]
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