Elaine
@thebarl.bsky.social
Hiding in plain sight.
Lover of music and books.
From Glasgow.
Lover of music and books.
From Glasgow.
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Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums70s1 this being the 1st of 5 semi finals to ultimately determine the decades best album. You can vote on Bluesky or X (but just once). Please find to follow the list of 100 albums in the 1st semi final, your task is simple 😉 pick your top 5 in order. Here’s mine…
January 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hi folks, it’s time for #5albums70s1 this being the 1st of 5 semi finals to ultimately determine the decades best album. You can vote on Bluesky or X (but just once). Please find to follow the list of 100 albums in the 1st semi final, your task is simple 😉 pick your top 5 in order. Here’s mine…
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Please please let this end up in court. Please.
Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy
Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy
‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat
* UK politics live – latest updates
Liz Truss has sent a legal letter to Keir Starmer demanding he stops making “false and defamatory” claims that…
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Please please let this end up in court. Please.
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Maureen Cleave describing the Rolling Stones to Evening Standard readers in 1964. I think this is my favourite passage in all music writing. It's packed with detail and tension, but nothing is unnecessary.
January 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Maureen Cleave describing the Rolling Stones to Evening Standard readers in 1964. I think this is my favourite passage in all music writing. It's packed with detail and tension, but nothing is unnecessary.
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The Past Glasgow annual retrospective #5:
"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018.
The numbers:
TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498
"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018.
The numbers:
TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498
December 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM
The Past Glasgow annual retrospective #5:
"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018.
The numbers:
TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498
"Glasgow is maybe the most bullshit-free place on earth. I think I call it 'the antidote to the rest of the world.'" Anthony Bourdain, who died on this day [8th June] in 2018.
The numbers:
TT: N/a FB: 298 X: 5200 T: 5498
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So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024
gofund.me
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️
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So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
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When you fuck up a Christmas card envelope leaving you one short at the end
December 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM
When you fuck up a Christmas card envelope leaving you one short at the end
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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
Listened to this a while back having only a basic idea of the Enron scandal, but had no idea the scale of the crimes they committed. Unfathomable that they could make any kind of comeback from that position.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social and Sarah Marshall’s explainer on Enron from an old @yourewrongabout.bsky.social is required listening now that Enron is re-emerging as a crypto company from whatever monument to failure they were buried under.
Enron
Podcast Episode · You're Wrong About · 01/16/2019 · 1h 18m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Listened to this a while back having only a basic idea of the Enron scandal, but had no idea the scale of the crimes they committed. Unfathomable that they could make any kind of comeback from that position.
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Apropos of nothing. Oasis disbanded the season before Man City ended a 35-year wait for a major trophy and they reformed earlier this season.
December 1, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Apropos of nothing. Oasis disbanded the season before Man City ended a 35-year wait for a major trophy and they reformed earlier this season.
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November 10, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Cher’s author bio is NOT messing about.
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Cher’s author bio is NOT messing about.
Playing this on repeat today and manifesting tickets come Friday 11am.
Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (Live Primavera S - Porto - 2024)
YouTube video by earthquake1755
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November 27, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Playing this on repeat today and manifesting tickets come Friday 11am.
No luck this morning in the LDR pre sale which is a bugger. Will try again on Friday but who knows how much they will cost by then. Ach - who needs two kidneys anyway?
November 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
No luck this morning in the LDR pre sale which is a bugger. Will try again on Friday but who knows how much they will cost by then. Ach - who needs two kidneys anyway?
This is what the US is dealing with for the next 4 years. Just horrible.
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.:
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
November 24, 2024 at 5:20 PM
This is what the US is dealing with for the next 4 years. Just horrible.
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most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns
April 27, 2023 at 7:19 PM
most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns
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Hi folks, quite a few people have asked me, so here’s the upcoming polls. Friday 29th Nov - voting for #5albums80s5 Friday 13th Dec - voting for #5albums80sfinal Friday 27th Dec - voting for the best of this year’s music #5albums24 Then in the new year we’ll have some 60’s, 70’s and debut albums 👍
November 23, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Hi folks, quite a few people have asked me, so here’s the upcoming polls. Friday 29th Nov - voting for #5albums80s5 Friday 13th Dec - voting for #5albums80sfinal Friday 27th Dec - voting for the best of this year’s music #5albums24 Then in the new year we’ll have some 60’s, 70’s and debut albums 👍
This little beauty was my first computer - played it endlessly. Spy Hunter, Atic Atak, School Daze, Daley Thomson Decathlon - loved it.
November 20, 2024 at 8:48 AM
This little beauty was my first computer - played it endlessly. Spy Hunter, Atic Atak, School Daze, Daley Thomson Decathlon - loved it.
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Which judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism?
I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
The Booker in the 1970s: 10 novels that are well worth rediscovering, five decades later | The Booker Prizes
The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library
thebookerprizes.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Which judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism?
I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
Think my eardrums will just about have receovered from seeing them back in June in time for this one at the Barras.
Excited to announce two new shows at Glasgow Barrowland next year, alongside a trio of Irish dates (Galway, Limerick and Dublin) and new shows in Shanghai and Beijing ⚡️
All tickets and info at mogwai.scot ✨
All tickets and info at mogwai.scot ✨
November 19, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Think my eardrums will just about have receovered from seeing them back in June in time for this one at the Barras.
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November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.
November 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.
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I remember my brother buying this and just becoming obsessed with it. Still sounds fresh 40 years later...
#5albums80s5
November 15, 2024 at 9:34 AM
I remember my brother buying this and just becoming obsessed with it. Still sounds fresh 40 years later...
#5albums80s5