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Ewan M Hannah

@ewanmh.bsky.social

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Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · Jun 21

The wee gallus bloke wi' his bunnet tae the side in my profile pic is my great-uncle Bill Docherty, circa 1938. A bit of a dandy, he was probably dressed for tattie howkin here.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4h

Chester Road, Stretford, early 1900s.

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 6h

Frank Quitely

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 5h

Today's #Scotstober word was often used by my granny: Jalouse (v.) - to suspect, surmise, infer. "See thon Cary Grant? I jalouse he's up tae nae guid in this picter!"

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 19h

Rummaging through some stuff, I found these: Dundee circa 2000. Left - hound headed cast iron railing, Westgait Church, Perth Road. Right - Tay Bridge sunset from Perth Road / Roseangle. I think I took these on infra-red film. I learned to make my own prints at DCA.

Black and white image of a cast iron dog's head.

Sepia photo of sunset over the River Tay, Dundee. The Tay Rail Bridge is just visible.

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 23h

"That night I'll always remember,
Coz that was the day, that my daddy died!"

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23h

It was a Saturday night in December.

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Keith DEADinburgh @keithdedin.bsky.social · 1d

I still dream of one day setting up the Completely Fabricated Edinburgh Walking Tour.

“This traffic cone marks the spot where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented the Cocker Spaniel”

and that kind of thing.

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

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

homer simpson and marge simpson from the simpsons talking about work for money

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

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

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 '' .

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 1d

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.

www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...

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

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

Time for a re-read, I think.

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!

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

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

"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

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Art & Hue @artandhue.bsky.social · 2d

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

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 3d

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

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

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

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

a cartoon character from looney tunes is sitting next to another character

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

I mean thanks! 😊

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks?

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 2d

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".

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

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 3d

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

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

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Bryan Talbot @bryan-talbot.bsky.social · 4d

@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...

Desert Island Comics starring Grant Morrison

YouTube video by The Lakes International Comic Art Festival

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 4d

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

A fallen tree blocks access to a padlocked gate.

Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 4d

#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."

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 4d

It's #Oktoberfest in Stretford.