2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

El País spells its subject’s name in three different ways in the space of five lines

When even copying is too hard: ‘Foreing Parts’ gana el premio DocsBarcelona a la mejor películaEl premio TV-3 de Derechos Humanos fue para un film sobre las matanzas de los Jemeres Rojos La película Foreign Parts de los directores Véréna Paravel y Paul Sniadecki ganó ayer el premio DocsBarcelona a la Mejor Película del Festival…

RTVE uses a song about a bloke who burnt down his girlfriend’s house to accompany an anti-gender-based violence ad

Your organisation says: Let’s forget for a few years about Peruvian serving girls punched by their up-town mistresses, husbands terrorised by their wives, and boys bullied by their bigger boyfriends. Instead, let’s reiterate the machista myth that all GBV is man-on-woman. And so the agency puts together a snappy three-liner with some music that evokes…

Montserrat Tura and PSC hypocrisy in La Clota, Horta

The demented, evil swine has herself photographed in a neighbourhood her party has spent the last 20 years doing its damnedest to destroy.

Going, going, gone: the PSC's plans for La Clota. (Photo: <a href='http://followthebaldie.com/barcelona-city-walks/the-last-farmer-of-horta/'>moi</a>, as far as I can remember)

Assaulted by a pine processionary caterpillar!

With chunks of Dioscorides and Andrés Laguna, including the wonderful story of what happened when an impotent bridegroom and a constipated friar involuntarily swapped medicines.

Torrente, modeled on the mafia private dick in Peckinpah’s The Getaway?

The hair, the dress-sense, the profession: some of the basics are there.

Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak

“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.

<a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/5389372179/'>Tutta colpa di mia nipote Ruby</a>, CC by <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/cagiflickr/'>cagiflickr</a>

What musical or theatrical numbers would you like to see performed on a barrel organ?

Any suggestions deeply appreciated. Here’s the form, the results of which I won’t publish live in order to discourage Looby from submitting the complete works of Nam June Paik. Perusable results there will, however, be, soonish. This is the original–from an old band of mine–of one arrangment I did tonight, but obviously I’m hoping you’ll…

What musical or theatrical numbers would you like to see performed on a barrel organ?

Any suggestions deeply appreciated. Here’s the form, the results of which I won’t publish live in order to discourage Looby from submitting the complete works of Nam June Paik. Perusable results there will, however, be, soonish, and there’ll be more news here shortly. This is the original–from an old band of mine–of one arrangment I…

A bicycling boho hobo, tempted by Cockaigne, fearful of Ruin

What to do when a mysterious lady offers you a free ride?

The lion and the gazelle playing chess or similar in a Ramesside topsy-turvy world papyrus <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=117404&partid=1&searchText=topsy+turvy+world&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>from the British Museum</a>

A market-oriented etymology of Catalonia

From Gothalania to Land of Alan the Goth.