Michael Rodgers

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Taking a break after 500 words of terrible writing

This is what happens when you don’t fund the humanities

The stakes have never been higher as Scotland's colleges face disaster scotsman.com/news/opinion/t…

Just incredible... Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert open.spotify.com/album/4OnjUMJX…

@MissJStewart_ This is awesome. I absolutely love hearing from former students and seeing where they now are. It seems that some serious friendships were forged back in that tiny McCance classroom... Congratulations to Ciara, as well as to you, Miss Stewart. Keep on keeping on!

Hello, @graemechordlis you may not remember us but fate brought us together in Strathclyde’s McCance late September 2017 for English 1A seminar. We wanted to thank you and show how friendships can last. Here we are 6 years later celebrating Ciara’s wedding❤️ Ode to Strathy

In the early 1990s a stonemason secretly carved a Xenomorph from the Alien films onto a 700 year old church in Scotland during restoration work. But it's not out of place. Because Medieval gargoyles were even stranger (and funnier) than this...

James Austin Johnson sings “Jingle Bells” as Bob Dylan through the decades. #FallonTonight

1960s bob dylan: percy shelley plays his crossword/ hunched on the mezzanine/ while the ghost of mary magdalene/ makes love to her benzedrine 2020s bob dylan: i eat black-eyed peas/ and i eat fried okra/ i'm a wicked cross/ between john rambo and cobra

This line is so memorable for a reason. It's a perfect use of antimetabole: the repetition of a phrase in successive clauses, but with its word order reversed. Here are 8 more rhetorical devices to make your writing or speaking more memorable:

@MickyPlummer @88Cask Pleasure to meet you too, Micky! Oh, thought you might be interested in this given the Isobel Gowdie whisky: witches.shca.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuse…

@graemechordlis @88Cask Was great to have along and a pleasure to meet you ! The limerick is fantastic

A rare day yesterday at the #worldssmallestwhiskybar! Thanks to @88Cask for having us. A limerick for the occasion: There once was a bijou box Constructed for Embra's cops. But its recent incarnation, For public inebriation, Will surely be more fabled than Aesop...

@becimay As a Scot normally devoured by midges, I swear by Smidge. Best thing on the market imo... smidgeup.com

Am being eaten alive by mosquitos. Any advice? 🦟 💀

Still reckon this is the greatest written paragraph ever put to paper…

@KevC1869 @fesshole

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My wife always starts her text messages to me with "Hi Babe" or "Hun", for the last few years I've replied with "my little Honey Badger". She thinks it's cute but she hasn't twigged that honey badgers are amongst the nastiest, most vicious bastards on the planet.

Because he's on a secondment...

Thank you for agreeing to speak at our 'posthumanism and the anthropocene' conference. Could you let us know the title of your talk, please? Me:

I, for one, welcome our new animal overlords.

Getting our floors relevelled and unearthed a few old items while clearing out some of the rubble between the joists - an old matchbox, half of an old smoking pipe, a tramway ticket, and a postcard for a 'window cleaner and carpet beater' #panningforold #glasgow #tenement