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 [...]
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Solomon falls on his face in love with me.
Soon the sleigh was flashing past, right over Marble Bar
I’ve been trying for a few weeks to get a decent picture of both boys for my office. This, seemingly, is an impossible task. I can get photos in which one of them looks good – looking at the camera with a smile of sorts – but none in which they both look good. Typically [...]
Interview 2009
Well the first of hopefully many interviews for Interview 2009 is up and posted. Go over and see if Chris of Formerly Fun can get the personal goods from tight-lipped Aussie music blogger Agnes of It All Started With Carbon Monoxide. A tip Chris, water boarding works well according to our erstwhile vice-president.
I wanted to [...]
Okkervil River - "Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979" [5:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAnd so I face the final curtain
I’ve been trying to get a photo of Boy Z’s (we call him Fang now) broken tooth for ages, but it’s hard enough to get the front of him in the viewfinder these days, nevermind his teeth. But I strapped him down yesterday and got the photo that he’ll be talking about in therapy in [...]
Are you human or a dud?
Based on my students’ evaluations, I spent most of last semester boring them for a few hours every Monday morning. I was running short of material toward the end of the semester, so I started throwing in lectures about topics that interested me regardless of whether they were particularly relevant. One of these is human [...]
Weird Fishes and the Origin of Fingers
Getting in the middle of a scientific controversy is more dangerous than you might think. I have fond memories of a conference at which, under the influence of the product of yeast anaerobic sugar metabolim, I watched two well known professors very nearly come to blows over a question regarding the role of chromatin in [...]
What’s that you say, sonny? Elmo? Who now?
Teaching kids that were born the year I graduated from high school is sometimes a slightly demoralizing experience. I like to consider myself a relatively “cool” guy – down with the kids, so to speak. But nearly every day my students come up with some bit of slang that just mystifies it entirely. Clearly they [...]
Joie De Vivre - "Sundays" [3:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Joie De Vivre - "That's The Hot Part" [4:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThe Semis: Making music in a cultural vortex
Still catching up with some of the things I had in the pipeline prior to the move. Regular readers may remember that A Free Man spent some time in search of talent from Florida on a recent trip back there. It was, well, largely unsuccessful – the state really is a cultural backwater.
There are, however, [...]
Sharon Van Etten’s First Time
Crikey (to use the local parlance), that was a longer break than I had intended. A Free Man is settled in Oz, but still lacking a proper internet connection. So, posting will continue to be sparse for the short term. But today, we’re back with an interview of talented new singer-songwriter whose music appeared in [...]
A Free Man In Florida – Deaddolphin
Ok, I owe the musicians of Florida an apology of sorts. A few days in the anodyne sunshine after a long British winter has rendered me languid and lacking in the drive required for writing. So, I can understand why their may be fewer great bands coming out of the Florida sundaze. I also have [...]
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