August 2014 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Friends, Milanese, countrymen

Why does the great city of Bonn not trumpet Quintus Petilius Secundus’ monstrous monkey ears?

The tomb of Quintus Petilius Secundus in the Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn.

You’ll make a muffin betta with a green rosetta

NYT: “A six-minute thruster … slowed Rosetta to the pace of a person walking, about two miles per hour …”

Most “Spanish” food in London is pigswill

1/2, from Waitrose, M&S, … To the extent that the dishes are recognisable, it should be said that many are also generally poorly prepared in Spanish bars, and the supermarket versions are often pretty horrible. But in Britain culinary ignorance combined with the opiate fantasies of illiterate marketeers is producing a rather special new genre.

Karaoke with a virtual street organ

A little experiment, featuring “Tulips from Amsterdam”, “Hungry, hungry” from Dr Seuss, and “When you are old and grey” by one of the authors of “Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter.”

I need to activate my cunt at HSBC

And a couple of disturbing dreams.

The tragedy of Lee Boo

Stop, Reader, stop! – let NATURE claim a Tear – /
A Prince of Mine, LEE BOO, lies bury’d here.

Kumon

Strolling up the Lea and then through Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Dalston and downtown Hackney with the cracking dawn, most happy to discover in an African independent church the organisation called Kumon, which offers an alternative English and maths programme for small children. Later, most unhappy to discover that this is not an Ebonics-style misspelling…

Month: August 2014