Speaking of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Their big hit was of course Bad Moon Rising but I always preferred Proud Mary. There’s just something about riverboats.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary

Stirlingshire Cup Final, The Rock, 16/11/10.

Silverware again!

I wasn’t at the game and didn’t even clock the score till yesterday afternoon.

It was a clean sheet – and Michael White was in goal.

There is no full team listing on the club website yet so I don’t know exactly who played where* but this competition has been reserved for under 19s with a few older players allowed.

The youngsters are certainly doing well. Good for the confidence I hope.

*Update: The team is now listed. Looks like a fair spread of youngsters.

Pittodrie Stadium, 16/11/10.

I only watched the highlights but the performance looked good. The three goals all came from the same source, though – corners from the right not properly cleared – and better sides than the Faroes will not be so vulnerable.

However, Scotland have in the past struggled to score against opponents like this so the result is not to be sniffed at. It was also encouraging to see young players come in and do well.

Bigger tests await, though.

I see from yesterday’s Guardian that the SF author E C Tubb died nearly two months ago. Wikipedia has quite a large entry for him and his work.

He was one of the select group of British SF authors who were published before the 1960s and was one of the co-founders of the BSFA.

Despite his prolific output -125 novels – if you had asked me I would have said that I owned none of them. I would have been wrong. I just checked my bookshelves and discovered a copy of his 1964 novel Moon Base. I read it so long ago, though, I’m afraid I can’t remember any details of it.

His was a name I always recognised, however. SF was such a small field in the 1960s you could not avoid it. His best known work was probably the Dumarest series of novels; 33 of them!

The Guardian obituary is appreciative.

E C Tubb, 15/10/1919-10/09/2010. So it goes.

Someone has put together the photos of NASA’s EPOXI Mission fly-by of Comet Hartley 2, made them into an animation and loaded them up to You Tube.

This comet is a weird beast, as last Monday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day points out.

SFL Div 2, The Rock, 6/11/10

League goals for predictor:- 18.

Way-Hay! Into double figures for points.

I hope we haven’t used up all our season’s luck in two games. That’s the second home fixture in a row we’ve had opponents sent off.

From the accounts on Pie and Bovril it seems Grindlay had a good few saves. Well he always used to make some of those; it’s the bread and butter stuff and the crosses he messes up. And he still didn’t keep a clean sheet.

But we were missing Ben Gordon – not that he’s been outstanding this season.

A welcome three points though. Being in contact with those above us is always a good thing.

Next weekend is free of worry. It’s not a league game.

We’ll be able to concentrate on the league after it, though.

It looks like I may have photographed the Botanic Gardens Garage in Glasgow’s Vinicombe Street at the right time.

Someone got to this blog by searching for “scotlands art deco heritage” (sic) and following it back to the Google search page I found the link to the Herald article from February about the demolition plans for the garage.

I’d be sorry to see it go.

Okay they say they’re going to keep the facade but that doesn’t mean they necessarily will.

Though I suppose housing is never a bad use for a building the area has a multitude of restaurants already; it surely doesn’t need two more.

Donovan suffered a lot of criticism mostly because, as a singer songwriter in the folk/pop vein, he wasn’t Bob Dylan (whom it was said he was trying to emulate.) But who – apart from Dylan – was?

OK, he was maybe a bit soft centred but Donovan still did some good stuff like Sunshine Superman, Season Of The Witch, Hurdy Gurdy Man.

And in Atlantis he contrived what must be the only use of the word antediluvian in a pop song (except of course he speaks it.)

It wasn’t a big hit in the UK or US – it came at a time when his career was waning – but it did make No. 2 in Germany and No. 1 in Switzerland.

Donovan: Atlantis

Jim Steel’s blog has confirmed that the latest issue of Interzone (no. 231) containing my review of Kurt Vonnegut’s posthumously published collection Look At The Birdie ought to be available round about now.

In the gardens surrounding the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, inside a hedged enclosure just behind where I took the picture in the post linked to above there is a memorial to the Cameronians Regiment, also known as the Scottish Rifles, which has a long association with Glasgow.

The statuary is not, like some, a mawkish example of the form, representing as it does members of the regiment in action during the Great War. Indeed it is unusual in that it seems to depict one of the fallen – which such memorials tend to shy away from.

Front view

Side view

Wording on plinth