Category: Books
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“A bit of ambition here, for the love of fuck!”
If you’ve not subscribed to the Mindless Ones newsletter yet, I think you probably should. Comes out once a week, usually in time for you to read it with a coffee on Sunday morning. Dense articles on art, magic, and politics accompanied by fucked comics and the odd spectacular illustration. Collective vision: no one member…
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Who’s Watching?
A few people have suggested that I start up a ScotLit video channel recently. I’ve resisted the temptation so far, but sometimes wonder if this is me trying not to talk to avoid hearing my own thoughts. I always saw myself as the type of weegie that dreams of being elsewhere – Gotham City, New…
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Dinner Plate Medallions
Scotland loves a story with two faces. Jekyll and Hyde. Glasgow and Unthank. Luci and Luda. Heaven and hell. There are more than two stories to tell about Glasgow, of course, but allow me a little bit of theatre, I can feel the set rising up around me now! This city dreams of itself as…
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The Forbidden Gummy Laces
What should have been a week of anticipation ended up being a week of anticipation instead. Let me rephrase that: when we should have been looking forward to Copenhagen, we’ve been worrying about whether our cat was going to survive gut surgery. The question of whether we would be going on holiday was real, if…
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Hey Now, You’re (An) All Star
My current thought about Ursula K. Le Guin is that for someone so ubiquitous her work is strangely underrated. Le Guin was an institution for a long time before her death. She’s now so beloved that any reminder of the fact she was a part of a living, thriving, thinking community for several decades can…
Blue Box // Recorder 