It is winter in Australia which means that it is football season it Australia. And by football, I don’t mean steroid stuffed giants in full body armor standing around for three plus hours, nor overpaid Brazilians kicking a round ball around for an hour and a half in the quest for a nil-nil draw. No, [...]
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Beware the demon bowler
I want to get off of our canine tragedy and talk a bit about the rest of our makeshift family holiday. Starting at the end with the cricket on Sunday. Dr.O’C and I took the boys to the third day of the second test between Australia and the West Indies. I had hoped to wow and woo you [...]
Chickens don’t get no life after death
I’m finding it difficult to work up much energy for the Georgia-South Carolina game this weekend. Probably has a lot to do with the loss in Stillwater last Saturday, not to mention my still significant sleep deficit. Either way, I just can’t get up for this game. It should be a good one. Both teams [...]
Strike one and strike two… I guess we’re both out.
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 [...]
I could pass like Magic, I could shoot like the Bird
I had planned to continue with the politically charged posts today, based in part as a response to Damon’s comment from yesterday. But I’ve still no internet at home and upon my arrival at work discovered a steaming pile of crap that needed to be dealt with yesterday. So, it’s a Moon Pie day – [...]
Florida Hate Week in Photos
Mark Richt, you’re our only hope…
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Deep South Smack Talk: Like a paper tiger in the sun
Well, I’ve got talk for this weeks matchup between the Georgia Bulldogs and LSU Tigers, but I struggled to get the smack. I tried to find an LSU fan willing to stand up for their team this week ahead of their matchup with the Dawgs. I approached more than a couple of bloggers who came [...]
Bent on World Domination
Your underwhelming correspondent is slowly spreading his tentacles around the interweb.
Check out my guest post on America’s game over at esmon dot net. And I’m delighted to have one of my science posts picked up by Tangled Bank, a biweekly blog carnival featuring the best science and medicine posts in the blogosphere. See which one [...]
Your cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch
Welcome to a new feature here on A Free Man: Deep South Smack Talk
With the SEC Football season moving in to full swing this week, I thought I would give the enemies, er opponents, of my beloved Georgia Bulldogs an opportunity to sing their team’s praises before the Dawgs take them apart. It’s just good [...]
They’d still be Chinese children
You know how sometimes you can get a completely inappropriate song stuck in your head? Well, I keep humming Devendra Banhart’s “Chinese Children as we watch the opening ceremonies in Beijing and there’s probably something vaguely racist about that song in this particular context.
Oh, good some Chinese opera, that’ll get rid of Devendra.
My impression of [...]
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