Glasgow

Waverly Station, Edinburgh

Took the train to Glasgow, home/birthplace of the Glasgow smile (cf. Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight), not to be confused with a multitude of other time-honored methods of torture/violence/execution apparently originated there. More "in the cut"

Our first move was to visit the Hunterian Gallery at the University of Glasgow, the current exhibition being John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day. Also, the Mackintosh House, a recreation of the Glasgow home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This guy was way too hip for his time. Next we hit the Kelvingrove Museum, but not before some decent Americanos. 

We were supposed to see the Christ of St. John on the Cross. Little did we know the Museum's most famous painting is currently on loan in Atlanta. Moving on--I was feeling this Rembrandt:

Possibly Alexander the Great, as inferred from the old school helmet

and these:

Sophy Cave's "Floating Heads"

Before dinner at Jamie's Italian, we visited the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). This was a good one:

Palma, 1992
by Jonathan Monk

Excerpt from the accompanying placard: "This work is from a series of paintings by the artist of holiday advertisements that were originally sold for the same price as the advertised break."

Following the Glasgow excursion, I had to come home and write a presentation on epistemological challenges to the justifiability of time travel testimonies, from Roy Sorenson's "Time Travel, Parahistory and Hume" (1987). Needless to say, it was a very long day.