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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Florida’
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Florida Hate Week in Photos
Mark Richt, you’re our only hope…
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Bushes in Florida
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Thanks Ms. Harris
He Who Must Not Be Named
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The Defeat of He Who Must Not Be Named
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Ten Things I Hate About You: Florida Hate Week Edition
With apologies to William Shakespeare, Kat Stratford and poets everywhere:
I hate the way you cannot count and blame you for the last eight years.
I hate your endless strip malls. I hate your garish beachfront condos.
I hate your big flying roaches and all your violent crime.
I hate you so much it makes me sick — It [...]
Florida Hate Week
It’s nothing personal. Hell, I spent most of my childhood in the Sunshine State and I’m not much of a hater, really. But there’s another election to screw up around the corner and – more importantly – The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party on Saturday. So, this week – with apologies to my fellow Floridians [...]
Z’s Music, er, Wednesday: Sell the kids for food
And I forget
Just what it takes
And yet I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind…
In the summer of 1991, I was 19 and living in Tallahassee in a vermin infested house in the shadow of the Florida state capital. I was working at a local chain bookstore, making [...]
Z’s Music Monday: The Rolling Stones – “Exile on Main Street”
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.
Chasing shadows moonlight mystery.
Headed for the overload,
Splattered on the dirty road,
Kick me like you’ve kicked before,
I can’t even feel the pain no more…
My first memory of The Rolling Stones is one of profound dislike. I’m not saying that I was some sort of music snob child progeny, but [...]
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