We’re well into the Spring Semester here in South Australia. Or the second semester. Or ‘Study Period 5′ as it’s prosaically termed by university officials. It is the semester in which I earn my keep – coordinating the large lecture course I was hired to teach. But I’ve also taken on a number of other [...]
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Deep South Smack Talk: My Friend The Enemy
In celebration of the imminent humiliation for the state’s flagship university, I’m happy to present an expanded Florida Hate Week edition of Deep South Smack Talk. Speaking for the evil swamp lizards, we have my oldest friend and occasional A Free Man commentor, Jamie. He and I went through high school together and despite his [...]
As the flames rose to a Roman nose
“Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I’d like to smash every tooth
In your head.
Oh … sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed.”
I don’t know how we got there, but Dr. O’C and I were talking about bullying the other day. I think I expressed [...]
In a West End town, a dead end world
“Lost in the high street, where the dogs run
Roaming suburban boys
Mother’s got a hairdo to be done
She says they’re too old for toys
Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
In this suburban hell…”
-The Pet Shop Boys – “Suburbia”
In September of 1985 I was 14 years old and entering the ninth grade, full of puberty [...]
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