Scott Dougal
@scottdougal.bsky.social
Fail we may, sail me must. Face like a dad.
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead The final book in Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy featuring the further adventures of Carney and Pepper. The whole series is brilliant, but Cool Machine is maybe the best of the three. Also a good companion to Heather Ann Thompson’s (non-fic) Fear and Fury. #BookSky
Been at a thing in Mayfair this evening. It’s, um, it’s not Barnsley.
Feel for Dermot Desmond. I honestly don’t think the Tennent’s Sixes are worth getting that upset about.
Great I can watch baseball from Ohio on the BBC - love the game - but tiny shame I can’t watch rugby league from Manchester.
Spending my Saturday drafting legislation to change how people drive in multi-storeys. Ie, if you have a queue of people following you, it is not acceptable to hold them all up while you tiptoe your Range Rover into the one space on Level 4, while there are clearly loads of spaces on higher levels.
So we’re all agreed… Time After Time *is* better than True Colours?
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
It’s Friday afternoon lads and lasses. Another week without getting found out. And a new Hermanos Gutierrez record.
Working ‘in town’ so walked to Kings Cross. Route took me past the British Museum, through Russell Square Gardens, past the Brunswick, past the British Library. Do that on the right sort of evening/morning and you’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much wrong with London/Britain/the world.
Card in the new Christmas catalogue from the RNLI might be a little too on the nose.
There’s got to be a campus novel in this. “Our beloved Scottish town is day by day turning into a microcosm of Manhattan’s elite world; complete with intrigue, privilege, and secrets that spread like wildfire.” www.theguardian.com/education/20... #booksky
‘It’s like the Scottish Upper East Side’: shame and snobbery as American students blamed for St Andrews classism
Online comments reflect class tensions at Scottish university between those from lower-income families and wealthier US undergraduates
theguardian.com
It’s a satellite village of a satellite town. Before that is was a mining village. Before that it was a clayworks. Before that farmland. Nowt wrong with it - used to live there myself - but it’s never been Jerusalem.
Scott Dougal@scottdougal.bsky.social · 2w agoBoy in the next village has taken to flying a Knights Templar cross in his back garden. I don’t recall a time when fascists were so keen to advertise.
Lol. Spare a thought for the fringey elements of the Celtic support who are getting ready to jemmy their way into English phone-ins about City.
Boy in the next village has taken to flying a Knights Templar cross in his back garden. I don’t recall a time when fascists were so keen to advertise.
Might start the English Football Monitor. Where’s Cosgrove when you need him?
Scott Dougal@scottdougal.bsky.social · 2w agoVery excited that English football fans will now get the Rangers Tax Case experience first hand. Oh the blogs, the blogs, the blogs.
Very excited that English football fans will now get the Rangers Tax Case experience first hand. Oh the blogs, the blogs, the blogs.
Reminds of a friendly we played at Wednesday. The waves of our fans as we go into the ground, realising: “oh aye, you can drink in England!” then all coming away from the little caravan selling Heineken with four bottles in each hand. They ran out about 20 minutes into the first half.
James Dart@jamesdart.bsky.social · 2w agoAndy Burnham has signalled he may lift the ban on drinking alcohol in the stands at football matches, suggesting it is ‘unfair’ for fans to be singled out when it is permitted for other sports. Story: @pippacrerar.bsky.social and @tomjgarry.bsky.social
A tremendous afternoon of Scottish football. Full steam for Clyde Superscoreboard.
What was the Leadmill. Last time I was here, it was to see Mercury Rev when they were touring Yerself Is Steam. The lead singer - the troubled one - got hoyed out for fighting with the lad on the t-shirt stand.
Off to see Saint Etienne. Expecting a lot of middle-aged weeping.
Watching the fourth series of True Detective. Bleak. So is it wrong that I want to move to the Arctic Circle?
