Plenty of Nothing

Scallop

Gustav Vigeland

Gustav Vigeland. Vigeland Museum.

Naive Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse (1961) by Ivan Generalić, at the Croatian Museum of Naive Art.

Recreational Leftovers

To Somerset Park

Somerset Park, Ayrial view. Lawn bowling to the right.

Morton visit Somerset Park for an afternoon's association football against Ayr United. Ayr won both encounters in the first half of the season. Which is shocking because Morton are in second place and Ayr are in ninth.

Are Ayr? Ayr are.

Andy Barrowman has left Morton. The club has now lost its #1 and #2 scorers of the first half. But Ross Forbes, formerly of Dunfermline, has signed. Rumours swirl around Michael Tidser.

Recent Morton away colours:

2014-15: navy and cranberry

2013-14: black (third: white)

2012-13: yellow and blue

2011-12: red

No evidence yet of Greenock ever having worn green.

Last night's match between Rangers and Hearts was abandoned after 20 minutes because of snow. Today's Motherwell versus Kilmarnock match is postponed due to wind damage at Fir Park. Elgin City versus Clyde is also off. Other fixtures depend on this morning's pitch inpection. But our one is on.

[Ayr 1 - 1 Morton. Peter MacDonald scores. Morton slither to third place.]

This is the first season in which relegation and promotion are possible between tier four (League Two) and tier five (the Highland and Lowland Leagues). It's quite foreseeable that next season Edinburgh City will be up and Elgin City will be down. Though Elgin City FC were founded in 1893, they only entered the SFL in 2000.  They have played Morton five times in world history, once in Round Three of the 1967-68 Scottish Cup (Morton won), and four times in 2002-03, the Ton's Third Division season (Morton won three with one draw.) If Elgin City return to the Highland League, and Edinburgh City leave the Lowland League, both leagues will have an odd number of clubs, unless some as yet poorly understood mechanism comes into force.

fitbastats.com now has all 42 SPFL clubs' stats up. I encourage all of mankind to make use of that site.

It's the fourth round of the Scottish Junior Cup. Matches to watch:

Port Glasgow versus Auchinleck Talbot [postponed]

Hurlford United versus Bo'ness United [postponed]

Genji Fan Art

"Sekiya". Source.

Das Narren Schiff (1923) by Oskar Laske

Oskar Laske. Source.

PS11

Missing Aboriginal Women

The Mounties have a list of about 1200 aboriginal women who have been classed as homicide victims or missing persons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has publicly given the matter a big shrug. At his house they're more concerned about homeless cats. So cartoonist Evan Munday has started a portrait-a-day drawing project in honour of the missing and mudered women. Above is Maggie Lea Burke who has not been seen since 2004. We live in a visual culture; artists can do a lot to move this issue to the forefront of public consciousness. You can follow Munday on twitter or visit his blog. (Via Sequential.)

A blog named Plenty of Nothing is admittedly not the ideal place for a post about missing persons, but it's better than silence. This issue is decidely not plenty of nothing, and is indeed more important than most things most Canadians talk about most of the time.

Postscript: the project has been scuttled.

Things To Do In Town

Dance in the burlesque, make out on a park bench, go to a revival meeting, box, ride the subway. This is one of a series of murals painted by Thomas Hart Benton for the New School of Social Research in 1931. Source.