This is one of my go-to pick-me-up-and-get-dancing tracks for getting chores done on a gray rainy day. It works every time. The Scumfrog - Robot Heart Burning Man 2014 - #SoundCloud #dancemusic #getupanddoit #rainyday #music #RainyDayTunes #EDM #djmix #scumfrog #JesseHouk #grayday #discochores

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The Scumfrog - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Sunrise is my favorite way to describe the magic of Burning Man. There are 365 sunrises each year, and most of us consider it a privilege to sleep through them. But during one week at Burning Man the

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This is one of my go-to pick-me-up-and-get-dancing tracks for getting chores done on a gray rainy day. It works every time.

The Scumfrog - Robot Heart
Burning Man 2014 - #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/I2ULBmU73cfhgxUDRD

#dancemusic #getupanddoit #rainyday #music #RainyDayTunes #EDM #djmix #scumfrog #JesseHouk #grayday #DiscoChores #robotheart #burningman #gardening #workseverytime #aprilshowers #discodancepartyday

The Scumfrog - Robot Heart - Burning Man 2014

Sunrise is my favorite way to describe the magic of Burning Man. There are 365 sunrises each year, and most of us consider it a privilege to sleep through them. But during one week at Burning Man the

SoundCloud

A few photos from our Saturday ride to Hailuoto Island — along the ice road on a gravel bike. A grey day turned into sunshine.

#Oulunsalo
#oulu
#hailuoto
#IceRoad
#gravelbike
#bikepacking
#grayday

𝔾𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕦𝕟
Recycling is a modern concept, but Walcheren has been doing so for a long time. Even war equipment is recycled. And so that supply of old cannons disappeared into the ground along the canal (picture 2) as bollards for passing ships.

#dailypicture #canal #bridge #ships #cannon #recycled #bicyclist #grayday #walcheren
𝕡𝕣𝕖-𝕎𝕎𝟚 𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕀𝕀𝕀
These rivets are about the same age as my previous pictures, but give a completely different view. They are part of the swing bridge at Souburg, which is well maintained.

#dailypicture #bridge #rivets #red #wetweather #canal #shiny #grayday
Same canal at the same gray day as yesterdays post. Now with a view of the monumental swing bridge between East and West Souburg. More about this bridge tomorrow.

#dailypicture #canal #grayday #gray #bridge #towpath

“Novels like LANARK do what all the best art does: awaken your imaginative capacities without swallowing them whole. It does not give you answers, but it does give you the right questions.”

—Stephen Durkan: “LANARK: an escape to reality”

https://stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/lanark-an-escape-to-reality/

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Lanark – An Escape to Reality

I put down the book. ‘He did it. He wrote THE book’. He was Alisdair Gray and the book was Lanark. I read the book in my mid 20s when I was working at a call centre in Glasgow. I had recently gotte…

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“LANARK is a strange, experimental book that immediately thrusts the reader into a weird world with glimmers of familiarity”

—author Rodge Glass & the International Anthony Burgess Foundation discuss Alasdair Gray’s LANARK

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/ninety-nine-novels-lanark-by-alasdair-gray/

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Ninety-Nine Novels: Lanark by Alasdair Gray - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

“LANARK, in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature.”

—Janice Galloway, writing in 2002

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/fiction.alasdairgray

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Glasgow belongs to us

When it was first published 20 years ago, Alasdair Gray's novel Lanark was hailed as a modern classic. Two decades on, Janice Galloway finds the book as exuberant and seditious as ever

The Guardian