This will be our third summertime Christmas and I must say that I’m warming to it. I don’t know if it is having young kids to enjoy it with or whether the seasonal reversal removes the S.A.D. component of my typical holiday dread, but I find myself looking forward to Christmas this year. If you’ve [...]
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It’s that time of year when the world falls in love
I’m not typically a fan of the old fashioned Christmas carols, especially those of a religious nature. While I’m fully aware that Jesus is the reason for the season, I take my Christmas without much Christ. But for the past week or so, I’ve really been bopping along to Frank Sinatra’s contribution to the holiday [...]
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 [...]
The ice is thick and my feet are clamped, I know how my cards are stacked
I made a resolution this year to try and suppress my natural Grinchy tendencies. Now that I have two young boys around, Christmas is going to start to become less about me being grumpy and self-indulgently miserable and more about them being smitten with Christmas magic.
They’re both still too young to properly appreciate Christmas, but I’m [...]
But there’ll be another morning after afternoon and tonight
I’m cheating a little bit in my choice of the #3 album from an independent or unsigned artist. Actually, it’s my list so I can do whatever I want. But I’m including the latest album from Austin’s Okkervil River largely as a recognition of their whole body of work, rather than the album itself. Don’t [...]
Okkervil River - "Singer Songwriter" [3:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Okkervil River - "Listening to Otis Redding During Christmas" [7:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadYou’re a bum, you’re a punk. You’re an old slut on junk.
I’m sorry to report that their is no movement on the Christmas spirit front. Not even after having a Christmas tree thrust upon me, a spell of Christmas shopping and a Christmas party on the weekend. Though, sitting in the warm late Spring sun at a barbecue doesn’t really summon up the Noel for me. [...]
Sucking and blowing
Get your mind out of the gutter, you pederasts, this is about kids and Christmas and stuff. I had a vivid preview of my future as a parent (and no doubt decline into penury) this weekend. While wandering around Adelaide’s South Australian Museum, Boy Z found these plastic penguins (definitely penguins, Runs Deep) with which [...]
The Decemberists - "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" [3:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIrony, heredity and serenity
I’ve literally got students coming out the wazoo today, so I’ll keep things short and simple…
After ranting about premature Christmas decorations and my general disdain for the holiday, I’ve been tasked with coming up with a personalized message for my company’s Christmas cards. This is, by far, the most difficult three or four sentences I’ve [...]
Podcast Video: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Bouncing Souls - "Serenity" [2:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIt could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
Damn it. As I got off the bus on the way into work earlier this week, Rundle Mall (the main shopping street in Adelaide) was bedecked with plastic snowmen, Christmas bulbs and chubby Santas – in the first week of November. Nooooooooooooo! Are you seriously expecting me to be festive for two months, for one-sixth [...]
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