26/02/2006 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Performance performance

It turns out people are performing all the stuff I wrote at college.

I’ve never been to the Ukraine,

… but it looks good.

I've never been to the Ukraine,

… but it looks good.

Unlike the hairdressers of Clonycavan and Croghan, Egil ( “an ugly, irritable, brooding individual … deaf, often lost his balance, went blind, suffered from chronically cold feet, endured headaches and experienced bouts of lethargy … unusual disfigurements of his skull and facial features”) was clearly a trombonist

Traitors to the language

Everyone always knew that the previous, “moderate”, nationalist government was engaged in a campaign to remove, step-by-step, Spanish and its users from public life. However, due to its clannish habits, strategic smoking guns were scarce. Now a bunch of illegally-funded, Stasi-like surveys and reports have been found in government house providing information on “traitors” and…