Duncan Hotchkiss
@duncs1875.bsky.social
music, pubs, hibs, dogs, books, socialism, dadhood
My 4 and a 1/2 year old has wee second hand book about horses she carries everywhere. One of the pages started to come away.
‘Is that ok for the wee girl, daddy?’
‘What wee girl?’
‘The wee girl whose book it was.’
‘Is that ok for the wee girl, daddy?’
‘What wee girl?’
‘The wee girl whose book it was.’
September 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My 4 and a 1/2 year old has wee second hand book about horses she carries everywhere. One of the pages started to come away.
‘Is that ok for the wee girl, daddy?’
‘What wee girl?’
‘The wee girl whose book it was.’
‘Is that ok for the wee girl, daddy?’
‘What wee girl?’
‘The wee girl whose book it was.’
Life’s been busy recently so haven’t posted much but here are a few cultural highlights:
- Rachel Cusk’s OUTLINE is brilliant
- Deborah Levy’s AUGUST BLUE also great and also set in Athens
- on the film side I’ve subscribed to MUBI and enjoyed lots of weird and wonderful stuff on there…
- Rachel Cusk’s OUTLINE is brilliant
- Deborah Levy’s AUGUST BLUE also great and also set in Athens
- on the film side I’ve subscribed to MUBI and enjoyed lots of weird and wonderful stuff on there…
March 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Life’s been busy recently so haven’t posted much but here are a few cultural highlights:
- Rachel Cusk’s OUTLINE is brilliant
- Deborah Levy’s AUGUST BLUE also great and also set in Athens
- on the film side I’ve subscribed to MUBI and enjoyed lots of weird and wonderful stuff on there…
- Rachel Cusk’s OUTLINE is brilliant
- Deborah Levy’s AUGUST BLUE also great and also set in Athens
- on the film side I’ve subscribed to MUBI and enjoyed lots of weird and wonderful stuff on there…
Great afternoon at the Leith San Siro earlier today.
February 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Great afternoon at the Leith San Siro earlier today.
Underrated venue. Seen some great shows here over the years.
February 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Underrated venue. Seen some great shows here over the years.
Been off the bevy for a few weeks now. Still waiting for the miraculous health benefits to arrive (glowing skin, hair like Jesus etc) but it’s been a worthwhile exercise anyway and notice I’m fitter at 7s.
Looking forward to a real pint mind you.
Looking forward to a real pint mind you.
February 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Been off the bevy for a few weeks now. Still waiting for the miraculous health benefits to arrive (glowing skin, hair like Jesus etc) but it’s been a worthwhile exercise anyway and notice I’m fitter at 7s.
Looking forward to a real pint mind you.
Looking forward to a real pint mind you.
I now get all the Rachel Cusk hype.
February 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I now get all the Rachel Cusk hype.
Giving up on graves - or maybe more so gravestones - was one of the more regrettable collective cultural decisions we’ve made imo. They’re good things to have.
February 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Giving up on graves - or maybe more so gravestones - was one of the more regrettable collective cultural decisions we’ve made imo. They’re good things to have.
Watched the oft mocked 1996 family adventure Loch Ness tonight. And I hereby call for a critical reappraisal. The accents are consistently bad enough to make their own fictional world believable. The interaction between the Yank and the Scottish child is actually… well done. And the acting… decent!
February 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Watched the oft mocked 1996 family adventure Loch Ness tonight. And I hereby call for a critical reappraisal. The accents are consistently bad enough to make their own fictional world believable. The interaction between the Yank and the Scottish child is actually… well done. And the acting… decent!
My local has announced that it’s closing. Feeling a little shook still. I bloody loved that place.
February 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My local has announced that it’s closing. Feeling a little shook still. I bloody loved that place.
The Substance. Lives up to the hype. Good fun and absolutely mental. Demi Moore excellent.
February 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Substance. Lives up to the hype. Good fun and absolutely mental. Demi Moore excellent.
Near my bit. I like the pile up of housing styles around here: traditional sandstone tenement, post war high rises, and brick local authority built mock tenements - one of the few examples of successful inner city rehousing within Glasgow itself (rather than new schemes) in 50s/60s.
January 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Near my bit. I like the pile up of housing styles around here: traditional sandstone tenement, post war high rises, and brick local authority built mock tenements - one of the few examples of successful inner city rehousing within Glasgow itself (rather than new schemes) in 50s/60s.
Finished Deborah Levy’s August Blue last night. Maybe my favourite of hers yet. She’s the real deal. Who doesn’t love an existential doppelgänger story fused with music?
January 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Finished Deborah Levy’s August Blue last night. Maybe my favourite of hers yet. She’s the real deal. Who doesn’t love an existential doppelgänger story fused with music?
Saw A Real Pain yesterday and really liked it. The camp visit scene was very powerful. Made it all the more baffling that someone starting chatting during it in the pictures. Jesus wept.
January 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Saw A Real Pain yesterday and really liked it. The camp visit scene was very powerful. Made it all the more baffling that someone starting chatting during it in the pictures. Jesus wept.
Reposted by Duncan Hotchkiss
‘Literary reputations always have a life of their own, but I struggle to reconcile Nan Shepherd of Cults with the cult of Nan Shepherd.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd and her home village of Cults, Aberdeen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd and her home village of Cults, Aberdeen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fraser MacDonald · Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd
The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘Literary reputations always have a life of their own, but I struggle to reconcile Nan Shepherd of Cults with the cult of Nan Shepherd.’
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd and her home village of Cults, Aberdeen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@frasermacdonald.bsky.social on Nan Shepherd and her home village of Cults, Aberdeen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
What a day out with some of the best folk in fair auld Scotia. Love a Scottish cup adventure.
January 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What a day out with some of the best folk in fair auld Scotia. Love a Scottish cup adventure.
Still basking in the glory of having a photo featured here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country - BBC News
A selection of photographs submitted to BBC Scotland News from around the country this week.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Still basking in the glory of having a photo featured here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
One of the annoying things about being back at work is that it fries my reading brain so my capacity for reading in evenings for ‘leisure’ is vastly diminished. I read tonnes at work but in a hawkish manner, mining quick meanings, hammering it into various bits of writing where conciseness is king.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
One of the annoying things about being back at work is that it fries my reading brain so my capacity for reading in evenings for ‘leisure’ is vastly diminished. I read tonnes at work but in a hawkish manner, mining quick meanings, hammering it into various bits of writing where conciseness is king.
Back to work. This is not fair.
January 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Back to work. This is not fair.
Today’s draw against the Always the Bridesmaids rounds off a very good festive period for Hibernian FC. Good fun. The storied club of Scottish football begin their 150th year in characteristically entertaining fashion.
January 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Today’s draw against the Always the Bridesmaids rounds off a very good festive period for Hibernian FC. Good fun. The storied club of Scottish football begin their 150th year in characteristically entertaining fashion.
Gonna do my Nosferatu review on here rather than the big T. No offence to the real big T. I liked it! Listened to Mark Kermode on drive back from Borders earlier and agree with what he said. It was good fun. I wouldn’t say it’s a classic but does it need to be? The 1922 remains prince of darkness.
January 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Gonna do my Nosferatu review on here rather than the big T. No offence to the real big T. I liked it! Listened to Mark Kermode on drive back from Borders earlier and agree with what he said. It was good fun. I wouldn’t say it’s a classic but does it need to be? The 1922 remains prince of darkness.
Off to Nosferatu at the pictures today. Looking forward to it.
January 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Off to Nosferatu at the pictures today. Looking forward to it.
Corbie Linn. Folk have lived around here for thousands of years. There’s a Neolithic settlement across the burn.
January 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Corbie Linn. Folk have lived around here for thousands of years. There’s a Neolithic settlement across the burn.
Heading to East Lothian for new year. Bringing the dookers I bought in Matalan in Galashiels about 20 years ago. Whether or not I’ll actually go through with a dip in the North Sea to see in 2025… probably not tbh.
December 31, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Heading to East Lothian for new year. Bringing the dookers I bought in Matalan in Galashiels about 20 years ago. Whether or not I’ll actually go through with a dip in the North Sea to see in 2025… probably not tbh.
When Harry met Sally on the telly the now. The single point of reference for contemporary fashion. Call me derek guy.
December 30, 2024 at 11:33 PM
When Harry met Sally on the telly the now. The single point of reference for contemporary fashion. Call me derek guy.