How do you measure hope? You listen to a comedy podcast -the bugle- 25 mins in.

Clever girl

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

Petition for saving Trongate 103 is up... c.org/mBbd9KpS7c

For Glasgow Film Festival I filmed and put together @markdonaldson.bsky.social’s interview with documentary maker Felipe Bustos Sierra about telling the story of Kenmure Street, why it’s an important story to keep alive and how Americans have reacted to it youtu.be/KOpJlCvBjoU?...

I saw Everybody to Kennure Street today. I highly recommend to everyone in the world and its future.

An old comic style of a woman looking out her window at a city skyline. The bubble says, “What a stupid time to be alive.”

“Justice may yet be hard-won, but the modus operandi of contempt and powerlessness which the powerful rely on to sustain their corruptions has been exposed.” Excellent and inspirational column from @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Nice to know businesses with crazy spelled names isn’t a modern thing.

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

Beautiful.

Hey @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ! Why is it impossible to contact your accounts payable team? I can see that paying freelancers is a bit troublesome for you. A phone number (not an email address that's ignored) would be greatly appreciated! www.justanswer.co.uk/law/s1ytu-ex...

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honour of that, what’s your favourite music video? It has to be the one that inspired me and my brothers to pick up a camera, make a dummy called “Formaggio” and hurl it down the stairs. #sabotage #beastieboys #spikejonze

I was about to smugly show off my childhood cinema and claim it’s still going, but in writing this post I’ve learned that actually it was sold to tiger woods to turn into some golf bar 😢 (it’s St Andrews after all)

Publishers Break Down Door As George R.R. Martin Escapes Through Bathroom Window https://theonion.com/publishers-break-down-door-as-george-r-r-martin-escapes-through-bathroom-window/

So glad @herring1967.bsky.social 's substack tuned me into this masterpiece 'home movie' retelling of The Princess Bride. Watching it now, it feels like a love letter to Reiner. Bryan Cranston vs Javier Bardem, and Patton Oswalt vs Jon Hamm are stupid good www.youtube.com/watch?v=29s1...

When the orange hoodlum shuffles off to the underworld we should all celebrate by watching our fav Rob Reiner movie.

This is all the good feels you need today. Watch the live stream till 10pm. Never not have the song in your head! How long… has this been going on…

This is particularly poignant from this playwright: “We have a storytelling crisis in our nation. We’re struggling to imagine the next chapter of our national life…. we fall back on to nostalgic old stories, rather than have the capacity to imagine stories for the next generation.”

My Apple Music top songs of the year looks suspiciously like my 5 year old’s fav songs. Only one of mine broke into the top 15. But can you guess which one?

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Patti Smith Beastie Boys Buena Vista Social Club BB King Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Had a blast at the Inside No.9 stage show last night. Even when you expected the unexpected they managed to make me jump out of my seat. Go see it!

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

Objections to this east end entrance to the necropolis seem ott to me. “It’ll be the end of it!!” 🤔 Do I detect some snobbery about letting in the east end folk? We’re not all prostitutes and junkies honestly. And already hemmed in by the hospital and the motorway. Gies peace to take a walk!

I'm saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Elspeth King, the legendary curator of the People's Palace, and a fierce advocate for Glasgow and its history. This was fascinating on the release of the film adaptation of Alasdair Gray's "Poor Things". yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/p...

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I wrote a piece on my best #Barrowland Ballroom moments for #BooksfromScotland. My new book on the famous gig venue is coming soon with @luathpress.bsky.social 🎵🎵🎵 Photography from @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social and 3rd Mile.

Found this gem of a book from childhood at home. How amazing is this?! And now my daughter loves it - Robot by Jan Pienkowski

I didn’t realise these images were so engrained in my memory!

Doom scrolling on a Sunday night. G’ night!

The guardian’s piece on how actors shouldn’t complain about AI actors because they can get plastic surgery is a streeeeeettttttccchhhh

I visited Kirkcudbright for the first time with its lovely art gallery. Seems like a haven for female artists such as Jesse M King.

Beautiful

No school tomorrow so we’re eating apples in the sunset. Let me know if I got my dates wrong and there is actually school tomorrow.

A message from the streets of Glasgow…

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Things I’ll miss my daughter saying wrong… Noodles the reindeer Hunk smash! Piggy pig (guinea pig) Buona potato (Buon appetito) Bubbles (her own invention for a fart)

Fife skies

I’ve found my new favourite mug. Me and feathers are going to have some great tea breaks together.

Achieved a holiday this year. As a freelancer! Still can’t believe it, and got this memento to remind me.

I love this so much. I have no idea how it got on my phone or who made it.

As it’s impossible to see a woman over 40 achieve anything, it’s good to use art to imagine it.

I had a wee chat with a stranger today because I stopped and took a pic of this mural. It’s at the maternity hospital where my daughter was born. We both talked about how much we like it. It made a sunny day brighter.

Kenmure Street, Glasgow. Four years ago. Ordinary people stopped what they were doing to protect their neighbours. No strangers. Happy Kenmure Street Day ✊

Alice Neel, Passover and Easter, 1982, Oil on canvas, 48" x 32" (Location unknown)

Superb article Dani! For those unable to access, please consider filling out/sharing our survey aimed at improving our knowledge of lost and endangered fairs in Scotland. You can access it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“Fairs are an accretion of centuries’ of collective memory, their identities bound up - historically, aesthetically, emotionally - with the land on which they stand." I loved writing this @heraldscotland.bsky.social piece on fairs & the fight to save them. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509695...