It's a New Year's Day edition of "3 Things". There is lots of good stuff here to kick-off 2026. Click above and dig in. Comments are open and welcome as always.
This month, it's all Scotland all the time: first, a glimpse of a castle from a train triggers some troubling memories, then there are some beasties, not at all "[w]ee, sleekit, cow'rin," or "tim'rous"1 , and finally — now that's a beastie. Once again, those of you waiting for the best music from the 2010s [...]