Chris Bateman

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it

understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Love rugby, love @mogwai.scot. BBC Scotland rugby montage with Satan playing just wasn't right though.

Text: They buried the Snow Goose that morning, in the apple orchard, in a quiet corner where the winds from the Atlantic still blew. In spring, the sweet blossoms, as white as her feathers, would drift gently across her little grave, and in the winter, the snows would blanket her. The service was one of great solemnity. Many birds attended, perched in silence on branch and wall. At the end, Old Fox sang an ancient Inuit song of mourning from South Greenland, a song which spoke of vast skies, of a thousand icebergs and a thousand birds, of the dark, star-lit seas, of the salt- brine smell of harp seals and narwhals, and of the rosy light that fills the world at the great dawning, the light that gilds wings, the light that cannot be lost. Image: An ethereal painting of white blossoming apples trees by George Inness (1825–1894),

My pal reminded me tonight that our first time seeing them was when we were 16 and they launched CODY at Virgin Records in Argyle St. It was fake IDs at the ready as we all piled into the 13th Note afterwards 🥴😂

What a gig! What a badge! That was one of my favourites @mogwai.scot gigs of all time.

New Order - Ceremony (Promo 1981)

Yass!

@danigaravelli.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨

Keep an eye on @monorailmusic.bsky.social, sure I saw that they were doing a wee ticket drop later today.

Jolly smug reply guy here. Sunday night will be a belter

This is wonderfully niche and now you have said it, I totally hear it!

I know I am years late to this but the Press Reader app with access from your local library is an utter revelation. Get on it if you haven't already done so

A dapper, moustachioed man in a pink shirt and green chinos, winking devilishly while blowing you kisses.

Feel that's unfair on this legend.

Aargh, on canvas, not campus, of course!

I love the way he seems to have this ability to describe on campus what happens in dreams (some of my weirder ones at least!). It's a joy to discover him.

This one inspired me so that I went out and bought a book of Chagall's works. It's stunning! Thanks for the recommendation and, of course, for all your beautiful tales.

Velvets and an Almanac making for some peace before things get busy again tomorrow.

AOTY 2024:
1. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
2. Tristwch Y Fenywod - Tristwch Y Fenywod
3. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More
4. Kim Gordon - The Collective
5. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
6. Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity
7. Still House Plants - If I don’t make it, I love u

Wishing all you Blueskyers a peace and light and joy for the New Year with my favourite Liz Lochead poem.
for to even hope to prosper
this midnight must find us
How we would like to be
🔔🔔🔔

Bargain! Shawlands charity shops for the win 🎄

Outstanding cardigan game mate. Happy Christmas

Santa tree decoration, wearing a cowboy hat at a jaunty angle, riding a piñata.

Merry Christmas you lot 🎄

Dani Garavelli Visit the post for more.

I've been asked a lot recently about a piece I wrote on the book/social media phenomenon/legend that is Memorial Device & the #MDANT community, so I've put it up on a website I haven't used since 2016. It is now the first tab. Hope you like it danigaravelli.wordpress.com. @memorialdevice.bsky.social

Old Fox's Advent Calendar. The Twenty-first Window. Midwinter morning & Old Fox had vanished into the freezing fog, gone to the high furzed hills, where the hawks circle and call, gone to see the King all of Gold, gone to the stony place where few can follow and return, enfolded by downs and dales, by old barrow magic, until the first light came, pale burnished along the star-scattered welkin way, pale and reaching in the east. How is the world, asks Old Fox. In shivers, answers the King, in shivers.

I just want to join the chorus of well wishers to you Anne. Offering to you my own small prayers and hopeful thoughts

*gets his five year old on it 😂

Would love to know what this was in reference to 🧐

That's absolutely stunning Anne. What a thing to share with the world, especially at this time of the year. Blessings to you

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Somebody's just bought Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is 10am

Keep thinking about our work Christmas party the other night. One of the admins (early 20s) asked me how I knew what Brat Summer was and then as I was leaving, the zip on my skinny jeans burst. I always thought ageing was a gradual process, not two events in a single evening.