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 [...]
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The ice is thick and my feet are clamped, I know how my cards are stacked
And that’s how I ‘came your humble narrator, to be living so easy and free
I’m all over the place today – it’s getting to that time of the year when my two jobs converge, meaning that I have two play two roles in an equally half-assed manner. In my role as lecturer, I had to cancel a practical this morning because we couldn’t find any human DNA to use. [...]
MP3s of the, um, ‘week’: The long overdue edition
This is really supposed to be a weekly feature, but I haven’t done one of these posts in a long, long time – largely because I’m lazy. And overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music coming through my inbox. But I asked for it, and it’s only fair that I share some of the discoveries [...]
Fine and sunny. Warm with light to moderate northeast winds and a light to moderate afternoon sea breeze.*
I was going to have a scintillating post for you today about sex, Neanderthals and genocide but for some bizarre reason my employers wanted me to work at work today. Madness.
It’s Friday evening and the week is done* and the forecast for the weekend makes me think you won’t be seeing anything about Cro-Magnon man [...]
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 | DownloadIs there anyone out there not from Portland?
I’ve read about SxSW ad nauseum today and can read no more about it. One of the bands that’s getting pretty much universal praise after the goings on in Austin is Portland’s Blitzen Trapper. I’m not one to gloat (actually I kind of am), but I covered these guys last summer on my personal blog. [...]
Album of the Week: The Decemberists – “The Crane Wife”
There’s nothing wrong with prog rock. My first college experience was all about soaking up new information. Unfortunately, little of that soaking up occurred in the classroom. As a fraternity pledge at a small private college in the South Carolina foothills I was exposed to all kinds of new stimuli. Most of them have been [...]
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