Ewan M Hannah

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Feel better today, so unfortunately back to work for me. Thus, today's #Scotstober word is: Darg - work, toil, labour, slog, drudgery, skivvying.

a man is shaving his face with a razor in a bathroom and says `` hello baby face '' . Alt: a man is shaving his face with a razor in a bathroom and says `` hello baby face '' .

Just had a shave, and I can't overstate how much better it's made me feel.

Photograph of a green fence and a sign indicating that a path, the Radical Road, is closed due to risk of rockfall.

In Edinburgh yesterday I took the opportunity to check out the fence which has closed off the Radical Road along Salisbury Craigs on Arthur's Seat for the last 6 years. Good news is that access to the classic Hutton sites should be restored next year.

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Front cover of the US 1st edition of The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock, Avon, 1968. Illustrated in marvellous Pop-Op style by Harry Douthwaite. A screaming Jerry Cornelius is encircled by pink and black diamonds within another circle of mid-blue. Surrounding this is a background of 4 black crescents and four triangles, bordered in red. Radiating from this are beams of sage green, orange, black and yellow. The title reads: Michael Moorcock's major new departure in science fiction The Final Programme the ultimate computer - programmed by the most terrifying evil genius in all of science fiction!

The back cover of the 1st edition of Michael Moorcock's The Final Programme. Like the front cover, it's a lavish technicolor-psychedelic-Art Deco extravaganza by Harry Douthwaite, this time featuring Frank Cornelius, Miss Brunner, and a helmeted henchman on a similar backdrop. The blurb reads: Michael Moorcock's savagely satirical breakthrough in speculative fiction The Final Programme a breathtakingly vivid, rapid-fire novel of tomorrow that says things you may not want to hear about today!

Time for a re-read, I think.

I know Michael Moorcock doesn't like it, but it works for me - partially anyway. I fond the middle is a bit weak. Finch and Runacre are great though, and it captures the skew-whiff atmosphere of the book at the beginning and end. Ronald Lacey and Sterling Hayden also get in the swing of things.

"Morris Kantor drew inspiration from the material culture of historical New England—ladder-back chairs, colonial portraiture, marine painting, wallpaper—in this fantastical rendering of a supposedly haunted house in rural Massachusetts. A shadowy figure lurks at the composition’s darkened right edge, an unknown presence encroaching on the comforts of the sitting room. Kantor later recalled that such a setting, with “its peculiar moldy smell, the fading beauty of old plaster discolored by time and living … turned my imagination to the past, to the people who had lived there and gone.” A Russian immigrant, the artist engaged with the stories and objects of American history as catalysts for his Surrealist, dreamlike musings." -AIC

Morris Kantor, Haunted House, 1930, oil on canvas,
94.3 × 84.5 cm (37 1/8 × 33 1/4 in.), Art Institute of Chicago

Elmer Fudd bears a strong resemblance to Toby Jones in this Gif.

The sci-fi film "The Final Programme" opened on this day in 1973 at the ABC 2 Edgware cinema in London. artandhue.com/scifi

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

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Still feeling rough, so today's #Scotstober word is: Wabbit - exhausted, washed out, limp as a rag, knackered, done in, weary, feeble.

I mean thanks! 😊

Thanks?

an older woman in a yellow robe is sitting in a chair with the words how long is this going to last written above her ALT: an older woman in a yellow robe is sitting in a chair with the words how long is this going to last written above her

Off work sick today. Flu, covid or norovirus; not sure which. So today's #Scotstober word is: Boak - to gag, retch, hurl, vomit, spew, puke, heave, "cry for Hughie".

A big boat beside a canal tow path.

Another photo of the big canal boat. The hull is deep blue, the wheelhouse is wooden, the cabins are white.

Spotted on the Bridgewater Canal this morning. It's a big un.

Denizen of the Dead is still the world's greatest & only anti-gentrification horror anthology. You can order it here (& on many other platforms): www.alibris.co.uk/booksearch?m...

YouTube video by The Lakes International Comic Art Festival Desert Island Comics starring Grant Morrison

@grantmorrison.bsky.social discusses the impact of Luther Arkwright

Interviewed at the @comicartfestival.bsky.social festival last weekend, Grant chose #LutherArkwright as one of his 5 dessert island comics. The section lasts from around 16 minutes in to 24 minutes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PI...

A fallen tree blocks access to a padlocked gate.

On the subject of #StormAmy, I usually run through Stretford Cemetery to reach the banks of the Mersey. Not today.

#Scotstober word of the day: Shoogle v. & n.: shake, rock, wobble, to be unsteady - "Ah've just went fur a run in Storm Amy, an noo Ah'm feelin a bit shoogly on ma feet."

It's #Oktoberfest in Stretford.

Post someone who looks good in black.

a man wearing a chef hat is holding a pair of glasses in front of a man . Alt: Steve Martin demonstrates the Optigrab in The Jerk.

I've got to that stage of life where you wander about for a minute looking for your glasses before realising you already have them on.

Great! Thanks again!

Is migration an invasion? Whiteness, borders and colonialism in Europe Are migrants invading Europe? Tarsis Brito shows how notions of white nativeness have combined with colonial legacies to portray migration as a state of siege.

White nativeness is a fragile & anxious project that relies on bordering practices to secure its claims to ownership & belonging. It is an attempt to preserve a racial-colonial order centred around whiteness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Oh, thank you! Do you need to be resident in Scotland to submit to NWS? I live in Manchester now.

If I could just finish writing my "Tartan Noir" novel, I would be in the money. Unfortunately, I seem to have more affinity with "Tartan Terror".

#Scotstober question. Are there any Scottish publishers, small presses, magazines out there dedicated / sympathetic to gothic, horror, and weird writing? I have stories looking for homes. They generally have Scottish settings and some Scots language. Might suit a publisher north of the border.

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Dog Faced Hermans - Jan 9 [Scotland & Netherlands, Post-Punk / Art Punk] (1993)

Dog Faced Hermans - Jan 9 [Scotland & Netherlands, Post-Punk / Art Punk] (1993)
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https://youtu.be/qAeFqLLAft4

DVD / Blu-ray covers, left to right: The House on Nightmare Park (1973), Bucket o' Blood (1959), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Theatre of Blood (1972), I, Monster (1971), The Old Dark House (1932).

Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1972), Death Line (1972), The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971), The Sorcerers (1967), Horror Express (1972), The Abominable Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972).

The Beast Must Die (1974), Night of the Demon (1957), American Werewolf in London, a boxed set of various Tod Slaughter movies, 1930s, The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

Dog Soldiers (2002), The Shining (1980), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Angel Heart (1987), Alien (1979), Psycho (1960).

As my dad would say, it's no weather for a shite ootside. It is, however, perfect for a day inside watching a creaky old horror movie. The question is, which one? #StormAmy

Haha! The opposite of a randan man is a Wan Can Dan! 😆