Trying to make sense of my surroundings, and myself, in an ever-changing city. Dreamer and imagineer.
Memorial Device: Alternative National Treasure
Lost Glasgow
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Word!
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It's eight years to the day since the second GSA fire, so I've hauled out the piece I wrote the next morning for the Sunday Herald.
There are intimate gigs, and then there are intimate gigs when the performer brings you in, so tightly it feels like a mother's hug.
If you don't know Amy Rigby's elegant and masterful songwriting, do yourself a favour.
The kickball is so dull, I'm going to my scartcher...
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The Indians and the mountain men are speaking when they meet...
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On the downward slope,,,
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This moment of magic is brought to you by hip hop.
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Night...
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Kathy once thrashed me at pool, then led us on to a latenight poolhall, down the cut in Islinton.
There was a gay rubber club on doon the stairs, and I walked in...
Kathy caught my shoulder, and said: 'We're one up Jock!'
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Weird the things you remember.
I once met Roy in Sheffield - think I was about 19 - we didn't see eye to eye.
We ended up talking about John Buchan novels; he was a great fan of the Gorbals Die-Hards, and the shopkeeper, Dickson McCunn.
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