Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for May

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Tue May 01 07:55 I'm sure it's well meant, but every time someone says GDPR I think of Erich Honecker.
Tue May 01 09:33 RT @robinalexbaker: Much as I’m enjoying The #WomaninWhite, it’s rather strange watching a Count Fosco who looks like the chap on the left…
Tue May 01 10:21 Comment: @Transblawg I still prefer thumbscrews & the rack. Jeez.
Tue May 01 15:25 Landmark London gallery discovers its entire collection is $hite
Tue May 01 16:43 Rule 1 of paremiology: absurd proverbs are to be attributed to the Chinese, drunken ones to Russians
Wed May 02 07:04 Chained monkey beggar, Java
Wed May 02 09:13 Moderately relaxed about Morrissey and the Muslims and Theodorakis and the Jews - their music was crap anyway; very disturbed, on the other hand, that Captain America appears to be suffering memory loss in Botnik Studios' auto-generated Infizzinity War
Wed May 02 09:18 Comment: More confuso musos: "If Wagner is suspect, what about Chopin (a virulent anti-Semite), Puccini (an honorary member of the Italian Fascist Party) & Stravinsky (who revered Mussolini)? As D. H. Lawrence said: 'Don't judge the artist, trust the tale.'"
Wed May 02 09:25 Comment: @realaleupnorth @oldmudgie It already has in London: fiver a pint
Wed May 02 09:54 Peeling eyes for this one - seen them more in rural France than England, and never in London
Wed May 02 09:55 Comment: I love the common ID advice - "look into their eyes" - some chance. Beautiful vid
Wed May 02 10:02 The curious case of someone who has "investment banker" on her LinkedIn, "living the life!" & sunny photos on her Facebook, and actually depends for B&B on an aged parent
Wed May 02 12:09 Comment: @Transblawg Good for him/it. Our solution is much more bloodthirsty.
Wed May 02 20:55 Imported my old Spanish translation blog to my organ-grinding one: "Fucked Translation: What happens when Spanish institutions & businesses give translation contracts to relatives or to some guy in a bar who once went to London & only charges 0.05€/word."
Wed May 02 21:45 Dramatic twist at 1:13
Thu May 03 07:34 RT @Humanists_UK: Great to see non-religious members of the US Congress are organising openly. This model has been very successful in the U…
Thu May 03 12:27 Comment: @tombcn Go for it...
Thu May 03 13:42 George Eliot, Daniel Deronda is brilliant. "Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing... What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase!"
Thu May 03 13:43 Comment: I've figured that for most audiences I'm better off not translating foreign lyrics.
Thu May 03 21:02 "Baby spinach is for babies. Grow up and eat chard. What? 3-week-old, milk-fed lamb (lechal)? That's different!" I still dream about that day in Saravillo.
Fri May 04 06:47 Thread re Francoist mayors -> Catalan nationalist mayors. Favourite is Primitivo Forastero (Primitive Stranger), volunteer for Hitler, who, as village mayor in the 80s, ordered the extra-judicial killing of republican Ignasi Subirats’s noisy rooster
Fri May 04 10:14 Not sure if I want to commit to the petition to close
Fri May 04 11:37 Beowulf boasted too
Fri May 04 12:22 2nd language acquisition: suggestion that it's about exposure, not the magical qualities of the childish brain, tho kids find it easier to get exposure. Chimes with personal experience
Fri May 04 20:13 Man collects massive hooters
Sat May 05 07:17 Curious dream featuring Trump as a uniformed Salvationist chanting Blood & Fire. It all ended well. (Photo Mike Quinn )
Sat May 05 07:18 Comment: Where the Sally Army went wrong
Sat May 05 10:06 Anti-climb paint for rodents
Sat May 05 21:57 I have always wanted to be represented by a Tolkien dwarf
Sat May 05 22:00 Comment: Fortunately Comrade Ken hasn't yet read Wikipedia on the Satmar sect's activities in 1944
Sat May 05 22:02 Warnings & communications about GDPR outnumber & molest more than all the spam I have received since its introduction in 1937. I filter it straight to trash
Sun May 06 08:02 "He took kindness for weakness. And you have to have your milk with your cereal."
Sun May 06 08:05 Comment: @Transblawg @nordicnovellas Conspiracy theory: it's quite easy for high-profile businesses to walk away from a mailing list and start again, but a bugger for small ones.
Sun May 06 09:49 Baez parodying Dylan
Sun May 06 12:45 9 days on and no response from the Met to a break-in report, so
Mon May 07 07:37 RT @Anaisbarnolas: Turistes fent-se fotos davant de la pintada Tourists go home.
Mon May 07 07:42 So Dolmetscher (German)/tolmac (Russian), interpreter, is a Turkic word. & Ivan the Terrible turned these frightening people into a corps, looking both east & west
Mon May 07 07:56 Comment: Some say this 1661 Meyerberg drawing shows the Muscovite linguist-diplomats' court, others that it's the residence for foreign embassies. Whatever: interesting games of skittles and multi-ball hockey in progress. (I don't think those are human heads.)
Mon May 07 08:15 Rabbit/duck illusionism: I can't help but see the Big Bombora Shiraz label as a burlesque of a man with a huge nose and a surfer up one nostril - more or less how it tastes
Mon May 07 15:38 What's the polite genre name for motivational phrases stuck on domestic walls by people who eschew pictures for reasons of religion/political fervour or emotional disability?
Mon May 07 16:23 "I'm an agender quadrocephalic citroid from an nova cluster at the centre of the Small Magellanic Cloud, and I like to skinny-dip in the cores of neutron stars."
Mon May 07 21:09 Hackney compounds: Hackney ass, " author, " boat, " cart, " chariot, " clerk, " horse, " job, " lame, " mare, " mule, " pace, " saddle, " scribbler, " stable, " stallion, " strumpet, " stud, " vehicle, " whore, " woman, " writer, " writing. Not much good in there.
Tue May 08 06:49 Rewritten dialogue in BBC Woman in White turns it into C21st soap: "She's still in trauma," "She's had a breakdown." FFS, we put up with Shakespeare - mostly incomprehensible - so why not leave Collins alone?
Tue May 08 08:27 Michael Portillo's dad apparently invented the emblematic confrontation between Millán Astray & Unamuno in Salamanca in 1936 Always seemed too good to be true
Tue May 08 10:05 Regermanicising a medieval Rusian epic
Tue May 08 12:18 Amidst the savage Gazebo peoples of SW
Tue May 08 13:04 Quite comforted by the idea that Staropramen might not actually be brewed in Ostrava
Tue May 08 13:10 Comment: Once when cycling from Ostrava to Prerov I met in a village a man filling countless jerrycans with water and putting them in the back of a van. It turned out he was from Ostrava and anxious to live beyond 50
Tue May 08 16:32 Comment: @justinjerez I still can't bear to think about my sherry #101.
Tue May 08 17:53 Time to plan holidays: nice-looking Christian Albanian village in Ukraine called Каракурт, Black Wolf in Turkish, from profusion of Latrodectus tredecimguttatus. Lenin Collective Farm has 9K hectares, also pig business & impressive bus stop
Wed May 09 14:44 Nor is there now for Man any Pleasure or *Procurement* whatsoever without Labour to be had - Nathaniel Torriano, Compendium obstetricii (1753)
Thu May 10 20:07 Q: What's the difference between an asteroid and a meteorite? NeilDeGrasseTysonBot: The universe is full of Jupiter's eggs. Asteroids are eggs that were present for the birth of Seattle. Meteorites are eggs with British friends. I thought that was obvious.
Thu May 10 20:51 Ommmmmmmmm
Thu May 10 20:57 Comment: And, apart from not discriminating against left-handers, why put the measuring scale behind the handle so that it's obscured by your hand? Someone make a proper kettle, please
Thu May 10 21:00 Comment: "In the newly-born infant..the smegma serves a valuable physiological function."
Fri May 11 05:50 Goldfinch pair. Haven't sung the song for years
Fri May 11 08:07 Used to hate playing Modern Romance Best Years of Our Lives years ago with a cover band, but someone introduced me to Geoff D tother day & found Leyton Buzzards & Saturday Night Beneath The Plastic Palm Trees - brilliant evocation of London first wave ska
Fri May 11 09:34 Comment: @Transblawg 20 years since someone last put "digital" in front of a noun & thought it would fool everyone
Fri May 11 11:55 Few things so discouraging on a Friday as discovering one has acquired a gluten-free sausage. I anyone wants it I'll post it to them
Fri May 11 12:45 Comment: @Transblawg Monstrosity that transforms energy into engrey. We're morphing into everyday 80s Poland, where a certain British hippie vegetarian was told by the friend putting him up, "Eat the bloody sausages! Do you know how long we've had to save to get this much meat?"
Fri May 11 12:52 What to think of the Chinese adopting badly translated parts of European legal systems?
Fri May 11 12:53 Comment: @Transblawg And don't start me on the "labs" that are going to grow "meat" for us: spam, spam, spam, spam
Fri May 11 20:26 Comment: @Lighthousetrsl8 @Transblawg I looked in Tesco and none of the sausages seem to have bread in any more. Another hammer blow.
Sat May 12 08:49 Comment: @Transblawg @Lighthousetrsl8 Is ruby Kitkat the same as miaow miaow? It is time I owned a pig. I once tried to write a novel about an organ-grinder who cycled the world with piglets called Time and Space in his panniers.
Sat May 12 08:53 I used to know an elderly Welshman who in a moment of frustration tried to burn the family Bible. But climate had its way, and the pages were too damp.
Sat May 12 09:33 Why doesn't it surprise that the Waitrose basement at John Lewis at Oxford Circus is a den of the Anglo-Irish occult?
Sat May 12 10:36 Pierre Monteux once said to Evan Watkin that the trombone solo in Scheherazade should be played as if by a caged tiger. Harold Nash on the health & safety, wide-bore, modern culture:
Sat May 12 11:11 Comment: Beecham, RPO, 1957, no idea who's on 2nd at 13:30
Sat May 12 12:49 Amsterdam, always pretty nightmarish, & 22 million tourists in 2018
Sat May 12 15:10 Ingenious shoplifting technique observed in a Hackney Tesco: take expensive bit of meet, fill up basket with other crap, check everything at self-checkout, take only meat and walk out. ¿It's removed from inventory even though you haven't paid, and cams see you going thru motions?
Sat May 12 15:11 Comment: Makes a change from grab it and run from/threaten guard, assuming he can be ar$ed
Sat May 12 16:01 RT @slatestarcodex: This is the best table (h/t @gwern)
Sat May 12 18:20 Beautiful pic, showing curious combo: (trumpet, nakers & cymbals) + portative organ. Full image shows the great Khan, with still more music. (With a bit of cunning the blackamoor could be playing the nakers himself -> 1st one-man band)
Sat May 12 19:29 Dodgy etymology of the day: caganer < khagan, (Mongol) Great Khan, from his habit of $hitting on all and sundry
Sun May 13 10:23 "Homeopath detained for drugging his patients by adding water to their water"
Sun May 13 17:18 Glad the Met had a nice time at West Ham-Everton, shame they haven't had a chance to consider a break-in report 14 days after expiry of the promised 48-hour response time
Sun May 13 18:23 Comment: @tombcn Fine, thanks! Bloke's still inside the electrical riser with his sleeping bag & needles & hasn't set it on fire yet. Didn't think they'd do anything.
Sun May 13 18:34 Haha, Soviet Encyclopaedic Dictionary used to call Viking theory of foundation of Kievan Rus (see Y-DNA, linguistic & historical data) "an antiscientific trend in Russian and foreign bourgeois historiography" whose failure had been "conclusively proven by Soviet historiography"
Sun May 13 18:45 Comment: Psst, anyone got an ebook of Vladimir Volkoff "Vladimir the Russian Viking"? Sounds amazing
Mon May 14 10:03 Chronicle account of Vlad the Great's C10th conversion to Orthodoxy = forerunner of Englishman/Irishman/Scotsman jokes. Response to Powerpoint by Bulgar Muslims (who lived in "sorrow & dreadful stench"): "Drinking is the joy of the Russes. We cannot exist without that pleasure"
Mon May 14 10:04 Comment: Then the boyars spoke and said, ‘If the Greek faith were evil, it would not have been adopted by your grandmother Olga who was wiser than all *other* men.’
Tue May 15 07:32 Dennis Skinner to walk Meghan down the aisle?
Tue May 15 08:42 RT @leaboaters: Hugely grateful to @DavidLammy @SueHayman1 @Meg_HillierMP @KateOsamor for meeting us tmrw to discuss #leaoilspill The Lea d…
Wed May 16 10:58 Maximus the Greek, C16th translator into Russian Church Slavonic, cried thrice before the cathedral, pleading for God's mercy for this infirm human, & with tears he pleaded for forgiveness for the mistakes that had crept into his books
Wed May 16 16:46 Psycho
Wed May 16 19:48 Client presentation. Shades of night are falling, 2 black boys come down Well St., 15 yo pushes 13 yo forward to coincide with white man coming the other way, package handed over, man goes his way, boys fist-bump and go theirs. Easy-peasy, pudding & pie
Wed May 16 20:02 DEMON FRUITCAKE The man who eats fruitcake goes down in disgrace As he rolls in the gutter with crumbs on his face.
Thu May 17 06:27 Westley, successors to the Whitechapel Foundry, casting a bell for Worcester Cathedral last November @lordbonkers
Thu May 17 07:12 Basic jobs vs basic income - don't want everyone to be forced into organ-grinding
Thu May 17 08:57 Folkies arise: HS2 to demolish Cecil Sharpe House
Thu May 17 13:24 the dom-bomb: fake-news inquiry vs fake news-inquiry
Thu May 17 13:34 Jah Wobble, A13 - genius, tho a bit southerly for me
Thu May 17 17:44 As royal wedding tat goes, this seems pretty tasteful & legit
Fri May 18 06:56 1934 manifesto "for the conservation of the Catalan race," driven by the philologist Pompeu Fabra, after whom a university and metro stop in Barcelona are named
Fri May 18 07:26 What did people sweep things under before carpets and rugs were invented in the 1950s?
Fri May 18 10:32 Markéta Luskačová's photos of East End street musicians in the 70s and 80s - too late for organ grinders. I'm always impressed by the money and effort folks used to put into their shoes Via @Transblawg
Fri May 18 10:38 Comment: @Pani_Bufetowa @Transblawg Yep - and there's a book of them apparently. A couple of the guys look familiar but too many brain cells have been washed away
Fri May 18 10:53 These people are very silly
Fri May 18 12:01 I'll bet you don't know what the Mogden formula is
Fri May 18 14:54 Organ-grinders at the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. Done stuff for the Dutch, but still no call from the FCO for this British organ-grinder to chant UK Gov's splendid doctrines for the Belgians, obvs in French & Flemish @foreignoffice @SRE_mx
Fri May 18 19:27 What happens when kids write manuals
Sat May 19 04:55 I didn't realise Damien had embalmed so many sheep - everywhere you go At least with stuffed foxes & pikes over pub fireplaces you knew that they were inedible, but lamb...
Sat May 19 07:10 Comment: @Transblawg It's the kind of thing vets discover when they clean elephant ears.
Sat May 19 12:53 I'll bet Abhinabha practised for his one-handed clapping world record by killing fruitflies. Incredibly satisfying when you get one fly with each hand. (My best: ca 200 bpm)
Sat May 19 12:58 John Keegan has by far the maddest theory of why the Spaniards took apart the Incas & Aztecs: it's all Genghis Khan's fault
Sun May 20 07:04 Car-free Homerton High Street is wonderful #HackneyHalf
Sun May 20 12:24 Comment: @wheeler_jo @LeeValleyPark They also cut back the blackberry hedges every year just as they're starting to fruit. I asked them why & there was no response.
Sun May 20 13:45 Petersburg naming jokes: * Can you name the world's 3 finest cities? Petersburg, Petrograd and Leningrad. * When Petersburg, 1 of Peter the Great's greatest achievements, was renamed after Lenin, (the satirist) Demyan Bedny demanded that Pushkins's works be reattributed to him.
Sun May 20 14:56 Curious that politicians always ask for a discount on bookings, instead of offering to compensate for the shame with a surcharge
Mon May 21 06:19 New Christmas repertoire
Mon May 21 06:43 What happens when you dress right to a formation marching to a different beat to yours. There but for the grace of God goes someone who started playing with a folk band because his feet and brain had no dance-proof connection
Mon May 21 08:09 More Twitter-driven geolexicography from Jack Grieve
Mon May 21 09:08 Comment: @Pani_Bufetowa Melancholeraic doves are messy ones which have read their medical diagnosis
Mon May 21 12:14 I don't think anyone has ever commented on the (barrel-)organ and bagpipe duet in Gavrila Derzhavin's 1782 Orientalist poem, Felitsa, dedicated to Catherine the Great . Must be pretty much the earliest mention of popular use in Russia
Mon May 21 12:20 Comment: Must surely be minority usage of орган indicating a hurdy-gurdy
Mon May 21 12:26 Comment: Once played with this guy, but perhaps never again
Mon May 21 19:51 If only the GDPR shambles would encourage a return to pull tech like RSS and people would start reading my blog again. Sigh.
Mon May 21 19:54 I like the hat / niqab combination, but why's the hat white?
Mon May 21 20:56 If I'd known George Eliot, I'd have said after 5K words, "Daniel Deronda, that's a Jewish name innit?" and saved her the next 310K. How come no-one notices?
Tue May 22 09:52 I suppose that one way to get a junkie to move out of one's basement is to find him another one to break into. Perhaps some of the de-urbanisation at the end of the Roman Empire started like this.
Tue May 22 10:56 Queens of the right & left hand = reines de la main gauche/droite = official ones and mistresses. See Victor Hugo's domestic arrangements. I played piano once for the birthday of a carpet baron, who sat with friends round a large table, wife to his right & girlfriend to his left
Tue May 22 11:00 Comment: Tener mucha mano izquierda, to have a lot of left hand, in Spanish indicates a great facility to resolve affairs with subtlety. Discussion about whether it comes from bullfighting: Article re left-right symbolism in Spanish/Greek
Tue May 22 21:44 Re A Very English Scandal: Lord Arran sponsored a bill for the protection of badgers, and was once asked why this effort had failed whereas decriminalising homosexuality had succeeded. Arran is reported to have replied: "There are not many badgers in the House of Lords."
Tue May 22 21:52 Comment: Lady Arran's obit is the best ever
Wed May 23 17:37 Geese on the navigable channel of the Lea Navigation from Ferry Lane to Lea Bridge at 17:30: Canada 45, greylag 1, Egyptian 2. At what stage do you start to talk about under-/overpopulation? #WalthamstowWetlands #WalthamstowMarshes
Wed May 23 17:42 New verse for "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly": There was an old lady who swallowed a shrew What an odd thing to do To swallow a shrew Perhaps she’ll spew From post about a guy who ate a shrew for science:
Wed May 23 17:45 Comment: Virtually none below Coppermill Stream - lack of bank space (boats & houses) an/or nearby reservoirs?
Wed May 23 18:36 Sub-/supra-Saharan strawberry-pickers' camp near Huelva on the Spanish Costa de la Luz I'll never forget the olive-pickers I met living in low-slung, disused pigsties near Jaén one winter.
Thu May 24 06:46 Good new Emily Brontë setting by Kathryn Rose
Thu May 24 08:41 These guys may steal cars but George Formby didn't
Thu May 24 09:34 March declaring acceptance of privacy T&Cs #GDPR
Thu May 24 12:03 Comment: @tombcn Isn't there still some of the white bread effect, like I think there is among poor people in Hackney? Choosing unhealthy foods because they used to be part of a high-status diet? Ditto the obsession with cars, which middle class hippies like me just don't get
Thu May 24 15:44 Giacinto Scelsi and Rick Astley on a single note The snootiness is weird: Rick certainly isn't as posh as Giacinto, but he's a better musician
Thu May 24 18:54 "Mariano Rajoy" and "tormenta de mierda," "shitstorm," are roughly coeval, but you can't visualise that with Google's Ngram Viewer because you can't scale search terms
Thu May 24 18:56 For some reason no video has been published of this National Heritage Day meeting of 11 Chilean organ-grinders and their drummers
Fri May 25 07:51 Is the new Habsburg Empire the EU or the informal anti-Brussels frontier bloc Rome-Vienna-Budapest-Warsaw? Bring back the medieval papal schism, say the monkeys
Fri May 25 07:55 Argentine Twitter: "FAT FREQUENTER OF CONVENTS. SOMMELIER OF FORESKINS"
Fri May 25 07:59 Revisionist claims that Victorian parlour songs were not actually all about BDSM
Fri May 25 08:03 Comment: Oh, I'm sorry! Sounds like I'm evangelising for Mr A.
Fri May 25 08:09 Save the Hackney whipping post! Perhaps a borough where there is greater support for corporal punishment would like to acquire it
Fri May 25 09:47 Monstrous bacon fat spill on the kitchen floor creates ideal conditions for what the Dutch call buikglijden (English = belly sliding, other terms?), recalling Floris, erstwhile world champion. Another expert:
Fri May 25 10:06 English-speakers shouldn't waste time learning other languages: instead they should focus on acquiring begging, monkey-training, and barrel-pinning skills. (I'm with Bloix & Lameen here: )
Fri May 25 10:37 GDPR = GötterDämmerung for PR
Fri May 25 14:39 I'm not sure if this is a comeback or a retirement or what
Fri May 25 15:58 WAHAHAHAHA!
Sat May 26 10:08 Defining Inner Eurasia used to be simple: 1990 Soviet Union + Mongolia & bits of Xinjiang. Now?
Sun May 27 08:45 Liverpool in Kiev: it's a lard life. Also glad to see that my friends at Kiev's local channel, Київ TV, have chosen to transliterate and shorten their name to KYTV
Sun May 27 08:52 So little publicity re serious crime that one will probably never know whether the CSI forensics wagon yesterday on #LondonFields was pondering the latest unfunded Nigerian stomach operation or some assault by frenzied squirrels on a gargantuan barbecue
Sun May 27 09:11 Translated compilation of Rabelais' invisible library, including Marmot-head's "On baboons and monkeys," which we do wish someone would write
Sun May 27 20:30 Björk fans love it when you go to her gigs and sing along: "MODERATELY HAPPY"
Sun May 27 20:41 Curious cage in the Leitzaran valley, Basque Country I've seen similar ones in Jaén / Albacete provinces, no idea what they are
Mon May 28 09:07 Peter Cook as Mr Justice Cantley at the great Jeremy Thorpe vs Norman Scott show
Mon May 28 09:11 Heroes Don't Wear Hats (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, ...)
Mon May 28 10:19 As Brexit approaches organ-grinders are already finding it easier to employ exceptionally talented, highly skilled, graduate monkeys from elsewhere, but we're still bothered by road sign clutter @michaelgove
Mon May 28 12:25 Comment: @Transblawg That must be what he meant, but if the translation doesn't alliterate then we'll just have to misinterpret him
Mon May 28 14:07 A decent map of the Irish referendum result. What is now stopping the UK & the Republic from reuniting?
Tue May 29 06:47 RT @holland_tom: Craig Brown's pitch-perfect parody of Robert Macfarlane for Private Eye:
Tue May 29 06:51 More psychogeographical bollocks: "Gooley’s research on and explanation of this is spellbinding, and extends to using one’s testicles for navigational purposes to identify the groundswell beneath the sea chop." L. Lane, ABZ of Scouse: "'Ow'd yer like a kick in ther goolies?"
Tue May 29 20:23 Comment: @albags_2002 That's yer man. Totally shameless.
Wed May 30 06:47 Despite all the safeguards apparently in place, UK residents can still get away with PPI scamming using Indian call centres
Wed May 30 09:02 The remaining Mr Hitchens: "cars & roads destroy settled societies, wreck landscapes, divide & distort cities, by subjecting non-drivers to the needs of cars & abolishing the walkable, human spaces which existed before. Once car ownership is general, it becomes obligatory"
Wed May 30 12:16 @BBCMonitoring Very sad that your RSS at no longer works...
Wed May 30 12:23 I'd missed the Manic Street Preachers on Welsh Donetsk , which has still not achieved unification with the motherland
Wed May 30 12:48 Among old books that probably won't get republished: "The orangutan of Europe, or the Pole, according to his true nature" (1780)
Wed May 30 14:32 The Game of Heaven and Hell, or Snakes and Ladders
Wed May 30 14:34 Comment: started it
Wed May 30 20:33 Nat Shilkret (< Naftule Schüldkraut), perhaps the most recorded artist ever, directing a NSFW Stephen Foster medley:
Wed May 30 20:45 Comment: Yiddish recordings in which he was involved
Wed May 30 20:52 Comment: No. 2, A Gris Fun Neuer Russland / A Greeting From New Russia is from Di Goldene Kale / The Golden Bride
Thu May 31 08:30 Tweedledum-ish Nigerian Civil Enforcement Officer (traffic warden), ambling peacefully along, shares my appreciation of a good uniform: "My mother would be so proud if she could see me now, ha ha ha." (If exercise is good for you, why are CEOs all spherical?)
Thu May 31 15:18 And I thought I had problems with drains: "Neighbours of a Hoxton construction site have suffered seven weeks of sleepless nights with no end in sight, after builders flooded the sewage pipes with cement"
Thu May 31 16:16 Singing Organ-Grinder & guest crank performing ET Mensah's Inflation Calypso at Leytonstone Food Market @Leytonstonefood @wfcouncil
Thu May 31 20:28 RT @_Juarma_: España.