Eddie McKenzie

Soul albums I'd never heard previously but turned out to be very good #35

It takes a special kind of traffic warden to give tickets to a row of cars with blue badges sitting outside the cancer treatment ward.

My funeral songs.

Date: tbc (hopefully in the distant future)

Coffin enters: Al Green's version of the Velvet Underground's "I Found A Reason"

Moment of reflection: The Flaming Lips, "Do You Realise?"

Everyone leaves: Talking Heads, "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)"

You're all invited.

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The last time David Byrne played Glasgow, the Art School burnt down.
This time David Byrne played Glasgow, Union Street is on fire, and Central Station is in danger.
Coincidence?

Miss Jean Brodie, you say? I've just been for a Sunday walk in Crammond!

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Domestic violence increases between 13% and 128% immediately after each old firm game.
In other news, today is International Women's Day.

The Iranians used to send children on motorbikes across Iraqi minefields to clear them. They strapped them tight into leather clothing so the explosions would keep their bodies intact for martyrdom.
I suspect the US has underestimated them.

It's a high bar. Annita Manning was one of the Watergate burglars. Her and Gordon Liddy were like that...🫰

Did you know...
Natasha Raskin Sharp from "Bargain Hunt" (don't deny it... you've watched it) used to work for Barack Obama. He called her "the Scottish contingent" of his campaign, and provided her with a signed open reference.

Soul albums I'd never heard previously but turned out to be very good #34

Soul albums I'd never heard previously but turned out to be very good #33

Saw him when he first toured the mobile band and it was one if god three greatest gigs I've ever been to.

Research reading #35

Take my money...

There has never been a more pertinent time to read this. I thoroughly recommend it.

Because... previous form?

My granny. Pre-second world war.

Man fleeing war zone has customer service complaint, asks to speak to manager.

The ending of "Casablanca" would be so different if set today.

Produced the first Beau Brummells album!

It's world book day, or something like that, so I'm legally obliged to suggest these three books.

I've fallen into a Frank Sidebottom rabbit hole. Here's three things I didn't know before:
1. Chris Evans was his driver
2. He wrote some episodes of Pingu
3. He held a sit-in at Apple Records until they gave him a recording session.

If watching "Pointless" has taught me anything, it's that most people don't read fiction.

You don't realise how many funeral plan advertisments are on daytime TV until you're sitting in the waiting room of the radiotherapy unit.

Edinburgh Queens Hall

The only poetry reading I've been to where a fight broke out.

Was thinking of going on holiday, but it seems no planes are going to these two areas this week.

Now, I just need to shift those stubborn last four stones of weight.
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Knackered

I'm also aware there has been a short window of opportunity for my cycling career: old enough to be able to afford these cross Europe treks, but young enough to manage them.
11/12

I like to follow rivers because, in theory, it's all downhill. Still fancy doing the Rhone, Danube, and Elbe.
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