Listening to Soundgarden’s final album today got me thinking about baseball.*
I grew up with an All-American boy’s passion for the American game. The players whose faces festooned my collection of baseball cards were like idols to me. Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Willie Stargell, the Niekros – Phil and Joe – Ron Guidry, Don Sutton, George [...]
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Strike one and strike two… I guess we’re both out.
To have my very own bench in an oligarch’s village
I am so far behind with basically everything that I can almost see myself coming around the other way. I should be finishing up my first lecture of the new semester, but I just can’t bear spending much more of my Saturday on a talk that most of my students are going to doze through [...]
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 [...]
When you were young you were the king of carrot flowers
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Neutral Milk Hotel, based out of Athens, Georgia, was one of the finest bands of the late 90’s. If you’ve never heard ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’ then you’re missing out on a fantastic album. Buy it from .
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I’ve put all my blogging energies this week into a guest post for Allie’s Answers. I’m on the food bandwagon again (the chuckwagon?) and after doing some research have discovered that I’m killing polar bears with my diet. Or at least wasting a lot of energy. Go and get your recommended daily [...]
I’m the root of all that’s evil, yeah, but you can call me cookie
Dr. 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 [...]
And happiness I’ve known proves that it’s right
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 [...]
I’ll play and you sing
I’ve had this song in my head all day and it featured as our antenatal music for the evening. It was a winner. Little tiny dancing feet.
Pretty great video as well…
A Free Fetus likes it. Boy Z likes it. Dr. O’C likes it. Lest you think it’s just a family favorite, Courtney likes it. You’ll [...]
Somewhere in middle America
I’ve never been to, nor have I ever had any great compulsion to visit, Omaha. Even during my self-imposed exile in the Midwest, I didn’t venture down the road from Columbia to the other Gateway to the West.
Maybe that was a mistake, because there’s obviously something going on in Omaha. There is a steady stream [...]
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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 [...]
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