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Entries Tagged as 'Scotland'

Roundup: Spotty Jove and the Return of the Scottish Beaver Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 27th, 2008 at 8:45 am

Some Tuesday-morning bagel bites for you …

In case you’re wondering what Barack Obama might look like with a small engine or wind farm on his head … after being attacked by the Evil Spellbinder in the employ of certain right-leaning but largely illiterate online communities … well, just go read this for your morning moment […]

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Tags: Meta · News · Politics · Culture · Science · LGBT · Comedy · Film · TV · Democrats · Barack Obama · Hillary Clinton · Comics · John McCain · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · Animals & Environment · UK/England · Scotland · Russell T. Davies · Video · Nature · 2008 Election · Fantasy · Astronomy · Racism

Music: “The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned” (and A Tale of Two Ultravoxes)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am

Here’s a nice video find for Friday: “The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned” by Ultravox! (the early, John Foxx-led incarnation of the band). This song has possibly the most figuratively ambitious lyrics you’ll find in any song not written by David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, or Bob Dylan. And what a thrill to watch John […]

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Tags: Culture · Music · New Wave · UK/England · Scotland · Video · Glam Rock · New Romantic · Ultravox

Photo: “6 Faggots in Gravy”!

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 16th, 2007 at 12:12 am

Andy Towle has been posting about controversy in the UK over signs advertising the traditional dish called “faggots” as a menu item (or an item not on the menu, as the case may be). Which made me remember this shot I took when I was staying in Edinburgh in 2000, while performing with The Neo-Futurists […]

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Tags: News · Culture · Food · Blogs · LGBT · Theater · Neo-Futurists · Fringe · Travel · Scotland · Photos

Ladies, Your Viewing Figures Just Went Up

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 7th, 2007 at 9:56 am

Just because I love you, here’s a three-part chat show interview with John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack (the swashbuckling bisexual time traveler from the 51st century) on both Doctor Who and its spinoff series, Torchwood. He talks about his recent knot-tying ceremony with his partner Scott, switches back and forth between his American and […]

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Tags: Culture · LGBT · Comedy · TV · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · UK/England · Scotland · Video · Torchwood

The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am

Mike Scott, singer, songwriter, and bandleader of The Waterboys, has a thoughtful and entertaining piece in The Guardian recounting his experiences trying to correct errors in the band’s entry on Wikipedia.
Meanwhile, the Waterboys have a new album coming out in April! It’s called Book of Lightning and you can hear samples of a couple […]

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Tags: News · Culture · Music · Journal · Books · Neo-Futurists · Poetry · Performance · Lit · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Yoko Ono · Travel · UK/England · Ireland · Scotland · Celtic · History · Mythology · Arthur · Folk-Rock