November 2012 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

“Chaste, pious, prudent”: to which British king does the poem below the break refer?

Part of the series Crazy Shit AMA Recites.

World Heritage taxi

And why not? The taxi has far, far greater claims than beautiful but culturally insignificant places like Úbeda. But would drivers stump up the bribes required by UNESCO officials?

Sylvia Townsend Warner, The scapegoat, and the Diodorus phallic thimble quatrain

AKA shit AMA says.

End of the road for Rafael Ramos?

I am told that La Vanguardia’s emblematic but problematic Londoner hasn’t contributed anything for a year. Characteristically, his most recent filing, from November 2011, is a reworking of a news story about the Redruth Close Hill estate curfew, which appeared briefly in the British press in 2008. Not much value for money when reporters start…