OK, I was wondering! I walk by his birth house all the time (it's between our flat and pharmacy), but I've never seen it open for tours.
Catherine Slaughter 🌈
Trent Dupuy
J. Michael Straczynski
Is it possible to explain the pink cowboy hat phenomenon? Like, I thought it was for Harry Styles exclusively.
🥃 & views: Johnnie Walker 1820, Port of Leith Distillery
fish+chips: any chippy or indy pub (ex: Old Bell)
🍺 indy pubs (ex: Steel Coulson) >> chains (ex: Wetherspoons)
🏴 food: Howie's (fancy), some indy pubs; veggie haggis is actually pretty good!
🍛 Dishoom, Mother's, Tuk Tuk, Slumdog, Mowgli's etc
I agree. In fact, I think it's defensible that Starfleet Academy is gayer (or at least more queer) than Disco, which 'only' had two human men in monog relationship and a pair of nonbinary kiddos.
Trent Dupuy
I was wondering the same thing - if they still do it. I vividly remember being a Hubble fellow and needing to ask my officemate to endorse me so that I could post a paper in the planets category bc I'd only ever done 'stellar' (brown dwarfs) 🙃
Sightseeing
- nighttime vaults tour
- outdoorsy: climb Arthur's Seat; walk a big stretch of the water of Leith (ex: Dean Village to Leith shore)
- the Botanics
- picnic in Prince's Street Gardens 🍾🍦
- walk up to the 🏰 (don't have to go in), Calton Hill
- museum: I'd pick National Museum of Scotland
More favorite bars/pubs: Teuchter's (esp. Leith), dives Star Bar and Dog House (Clerk St), Banshee's Labyrinth 👻, The Street 🏳️🌈, Black Cat, Dirty Dick's (nachos!), Cocktail Geeks (theme: LoTR)
Beware: craft cocktails in the UK are generally pretty bad compared to the US at comparable price points
What’s the French for Schadenfreude?
Étienne Klein's appropriation of a silly joke was of no consequence, but at the time I couldn't help wondering how someone who would do that might behave with things that actually matter. Now I know the answer, and it's more than worrying. An investigation into…
Before you go, would you mind throwing your hat into the ring for taking over Doctor Who?
Many thanks. ;)