The Scottish Endarkenment Exploring identity confusion, folk art, technophobia and all manner of assorted dark matter, this exhibition features the likes of Alison Watt and Ken Currie and functions as an archly subversive retort to the notion of Enlightenment in modern Scottish art.
Ever since he was a teenager, Chris Priestley has loved unsettling and creepy stories, with fond memories of buying comics like House of Mystery and Strange Tales, watching classic BBC adaptations of MR James stories every Christmas and reading all manner of assorted weirdness from Edgar Allan Poe to Ray Bradbury.
In the same way that Top Gear's crossover appeal lay in watching a bunch of floral-shirted buffoons talk entertainingly about cars, The Gadget Show's appeal is watching a group of slightly more relatable people waffling about TVs, scooters and all manner of other assorted doohickies.
Rather than telling women to "avoid pregnancy" in the manner of avoiding a pothole, why are none of these assorted agencies telling men to stop having procreative sex until we know more about Zika?
Between the rows of terracotta pots and assorted amphorae that are packed into the forum's granary in the manner of an ancient lost property office, a figure crouches in palpable despair, its hands raised in a bid to cover its face.
And workers today, facing an array of difficult choices that their poorer and less sophisticated predecessors were spared, would value honest disinterested advice on all manner of work-related matters: pensions, insurance, taxes and benefits, and assorted legal questions.
He switches among charting the path of a knight across every square of an illuminated chess board without looking at it, calculating assorted cube roots of big numbers, reciting from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and singing in the manner of the field holler musical style.
Manner of death: accident".
In a manner of speaking, yes.
