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Bricolage
The internet does weird things to how we are perceived and how we interact socially. Two recent examples: A New Zealander living in Scotland has contacted me through YouTube (where I have added a few Kiwi music videos to a … Continue reading
Under the Covers
In the early ’00s the blogosphere was very different to what it is today. The number of bloggers was very small and everyone seemed to sort-of-almost know each other. My friendship with Stuart of Feeling Listless goes back to this … Continue reading
Crossing The Line
Yesterday someone I knew roughly fifteen years ago wrote to me via Facebook. She asked me if I were dying because she had noticed my status updates on Facebook (and quite possibly this blog) and was, I quote, sooo worried … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Personal
Tagged about karie, being slightly snarky, blog geek, facebook, friends, identity, musings, personal stuff, real life, self, silly games, wtf
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Is It Only Tuesday?
You know what I abhor? The phrase “one of them”. I was told Saturday that all foreigners should leave Scotland and when the speaker learned I was foreign, he qualified his words with a “but you’re not one of them” … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, humour, linkage, Personal, Popular Culture, Scotland
Tagged books, cake, events, expat, fashion, identity, living in the uk, Personal, poetry, real life, tongue-in-cheek, west end
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Brambles
It is odd how smells affect the human brain. Example: the leaking water pipe in our kitchen has finally been fixed but there is an odd damp smell in the air. If I close my eyes I’m immediately transported to … Continue reading
It Is Not Entirely My Own Fault
Following on from yesterday’s Chomsky snippet, here is an article asking Can You Teach Your Kid To Have Taste? The premise is that a classical music reviewer has been dragging his ten-year-old son along to work and has begun wondering … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Film, Literature, Music, Personal, Popular Culture
Tagged identity, musings, self, traditions
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If Food Be The Music of Life.. Hang On.
Robert McLiam Wilson is an author from Northern Ireland who wrote a series of critically acclaimed novels in the early to mid-1990s. Unsurprisingly he was interested in exploring what constitutes ‘nationality’. At that point I was interested in his works … Continue reading
