Classic Kiwi vowel conundrum: Son #4 unsure whether football teammate’s name (having never seen it written down) is Calvin or Kelvin. Maybe we should have a River Calvin running through Glasgow. Maybe we do… 🧐

‘For this Alaskan river…the sixteenth century has not yet ended, nor the fifteenth, nor the fifth.’ A passage of prose running as clear as the river he describes. John Angus McPhee. What a writer.

The most wonderful thread. Thanks to Alanna and Birmingham 81 and of course wrongtom for sending me down this fantastic rabbit hole.

Like so many people my age, this is THE song for me. It was EVERYWHERE in Hackney in 1981.

I await the accolade of the Killie pie and Lorne sausage pizza! In fact, why wait…?!😉

Hard to believe this is McPhee’s first book. Prose is stunningly effective without being flashy. Shows how a big part of style is just having something worth saying and knowing what it is you want to say…

McPhee season continues…📚

How lovely is Joan Hassall’s wood engraving for Eric Linklater’s ‘Sealskin Trousers’ (which is, incidentally, one of the great Scottish short stories)…?

Well, I always feel it is indeed a plaisir to replonger into the Glasgow of 50 years ago! 😉Merci beaucoup for this review…🇫🇷🙏

Have conceivably taken things too far on the Swanndri shirt front…🧐 #AllPlaidOut

Unbeatable kit. Glorious. (Also, nice to see Killie physio Hughie Allan in the shot there…)

Reading Garry Disher & just loving his style. Would simply never occur to me to put a sentence together the way some of these are constructed. In context, the sentence ‘Hirsch shifted in his chair: love, embarrassment, compassion, cynicism’ is just so spare & resonant & perfect👌

You click on one of these McInnes interviews and you know he’s gonna be thoughtful, measured, realistic, ambitious. Absolutely delighted this guy’s at the helm…

The excellent Marilynn Webb exhibition closes tomorrow in Dunedin. Here's my take on the show in the current Listener.

I love how, even within the play itself, the response is more or less, ‘What are you trying to say here, mate? What are you even on about?’

Here’s an awesome, long-form review of White Rural Rage by the political scientist Nicholas F. Jacobs in Politico this morning. Jacobs digs into fresh issues with the book that I didn’t cover, and he offers a sober and constructive look at rural politics!

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I will give two reasons why you should wear a tie if you're in a formal business suit. 🧵

You love to see it 👏👏👏(Are we just having *too* much fun as Killie fans at the minute?🧐)