December 2011
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Alabama Update #2
I’m writing this in the courtyard of Caroline’s apartment building with a glass of orange juice, feeling my head burning in the sun. It’s ‘only’ eighteen degrees (Celcius), and it’s about eight back home apparently, but the difference in the weather couldn’t be more stark. It’s like the summer here: not a cloud in the sky.
The...
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Alabama Update - Part One.
I have finally made it to Sweet home Alabama. (Oh come on, it had to be said at least once).
Braving the marathon journey from Edinburgh to the City of Mobile, flying with American Airlines was definitely not as grand as flying with Delta to Denver was. Despite the comfort of starting the first leg of the trip from Edinburgh (and so getting to listen to airline staff...
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The Festive Period - 2011
The bulk of the festive season has come and gone, with all the madness that it brings, and before I head off to the States, here’s a brief run-down.
In our family we’ve developed something of a tradition of having a much smaller, quiet dinner with just the immediate family unit on Christmas Eve. This originally started because my mum would be working on...
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Daz brandishing a shot of cherry brandy in a wine glass can mean only one thing: that we’re in the throes of advent… a time where all the normal social formalities seem to get that little bit looser than usual.
Ginger Steve has just moved in with Kaylie and Daz for a bit, and we combined the seasonal happenings with that to have a bit of a soirée with some different kinds of...
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Jolly Rancher Vodka
The latest instalment of my vodka related posts concerns those wonderful sweets that you used to get in the UK until they realised just how bad they are for you: Jolly Ranchers.
I’ve had piles of these things kicking about for ages, and even I couldn’t make my way through the mountain-load. The solution? Turn them into vodka of course!
Unlike the ubiquitous...
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Cathouse 17-12-11 - Voodoo Christmas Party
Ho Ho Ho. It’s almost Christmas, and at this festive time of year, nothing quite beats the sight of Santa Claus shouting abuse at the Unders and handing out onions as presents to unsuspecting kiddywinkles:
What’s an even better present for those who move in the alternative world?
A Justin Beiber CD of course!
There were some proper...
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Vodka Watermelon
Ever since I went to some party in St. Andrews when I was about 18 and saw a vodka watermelon, i’ve wanted to try one out for myself.
They weren’t exactly the easiest things to get a hold of in Scotland, and only recently have they started appearing in supermarkets for a price that won’t require extending your overdraft. That, plus the fact that Kaylie...
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Stop American Internet Censorship
I’ve obliterated the site’s logo at the top to draw attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which is currently going through the American legislature process.
This is a piece of law which is unbelievably draconian in nature, with huge repercussions for the internet across the world - not just the States.
The justification for this bill is...
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Just when you thought that you’d worked your way through every possible sleeping pattern oddity that you could, a new one creeps up on you out of nowhere.
The latest abnormality is that I seem to be waking up about three or four hours before I set my alarm. Today that meant switching on like a lightbulb at around 9AM, even though I only got to sleep at about 4.
Possibly because I’m...
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Moskito - Cocktails
Cocktails anyone?
There’s nothing quite so manly as a guy with oversized glasses drinking a White Russian… and if there is, I don’t want to know what it might be.
We discovered Daz’s great uncle in a painting as well.
Look at that handlebar tache.
One of the benefits of living in town means that you get to make use of the mid-week drink offers...
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Cathouse 21st Birthday
Glasgow’s Cathouse Rock Club has hit the ripe old age of 21, and it was packed to the rafters with drunkards out to celebrate with a pile of folk like the guys from Anthrax/Steel Panther:
and Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame (he’s the bald one):
and various folks like my good pal ‘legend’ who had blagged VIP passes simply by being around...
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Tonight we had a ‘Kirkie Christmas night out’ - not a Christmas night out in Kirkie, but rather a night out with out mob from Kirkie… in town. Bit strange living in town and coming out into town with folk that you used to live next to… being the only one heading back to the City Centre is always a bit odd when it used to be all of you getting taxis home together.
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December is always a crazy month, and despite thinking that it might be a bit less so this year than in previous, the past week has gone and blown that out of the water.
The squeeze on time by the sheer volume of Uni work that demands attention during this period is further compounded by the extra nightclub jobs that come up. It’s a cruel irony that exactly at the same time you’re...
This is my super sexy pal Andrea.
Despite meeting literally hundreds of people a week as a photographer, the personal and work worlds don’t cross over as often as some may think. Because of that, it makes it all the nicer when you meet people who can crash through that boundary and get on with you really well outside the four walls of the clubs.
I’ve been bumping into Andrea for as...
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Bloody hell. These full-size images are a pain to start off with. It better get less of a pain as time goes on…
If you happen to be the girl to my left in this picture… message me! I know you’re a Tumblr stalker ;)
Currently working a ridiculous number of nights this week to try and claw back some finances after a number of factors have culminated in being more broke than...