SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero
- 2018-07-31 16:32 More novels that sound too difficult for me https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/games-of-eternity-giochi-delleternita-by-antonio-moresco/
- 2018-07-31 13:14 RT @thoughtland: Makes as much sense as anything else does at the moment:
- 2018-07-31 08:16 @Transblawg I suppose the persons who knock the kefir bladder as they pass through the doorway are also free-range.
- 2018-07-31 07:25 @Transblawg Do tell
- 2018-07-31 07:24 Cue mass anthropomorphisation https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1006476948628033536
- 2018-07-29 15:07 @AndrewHammel1 Only a troll would request a citation for this: "Why Sibelius should have failed to prepare The Wood Nymph for publication is a question that has perplexed scholars. "
- 2018-07-29 13:30 Turn on your inner light https://twitter.com/lauraascarzaces/status/1022923151611768832
- 2018-07-29 06:55 Ngram: "an NHS" vs "a NHS." The latter is used by people who don't sing what they write.
- 2018-07-29 06:08 @Transblawg The pig in the moon, my 2nd favourite animal after the pig in my fridge. Disney have plagiarised Teletubbies: "Squeak and Boo are two little piglets who live on a farm in the Australian countryside."
- 2018-07-29 06:08 @Transblawg The pig in the moon, my 2nd favourite animal after the pig in my fridge. Disney have plagiarised Teletubbies: "Squeak and Boo are two little piglets who live on a farm in the Australian countryside."
- 2018-07-28 17:53 Blood moon seen in Essex but generally not in Tower Hamlets https://twitter.com/SqueakySays/status/1023099115167797248
- 2018-07-28 14:06 Swanmore Friends Burial Ground, SW across the field from Jervis Court Farm to Hampton Hill, currently inhabited mainly by nettles, but see the excerpt from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Fantine. Did other Swanmore Quakers abandon this (post-)Civil War fashion or flee?
- 2018-07-28 13:02 Castells: instructional videos
- 2018-07-28 12:46 Fantasy: Yappy dog escapes from its yard and is run over by the Turkish motorbike tester, whose body is catapulted into the Nigerian Christians' PA
- 2018-07-28 12:40 A man walks into a bar and orders a beer. He takes a sip and a monkey swings across from the piano and pisses in the glass. The man walks over to the pianist and says "Do you know your monkey just pissed in my beer." The pianist replies "No, but if you hum it I'll play it."
- 2018-07-28 12:39 The monkey anecdote "I remember a man came here with a monkey. Called for ‘alf for himself and a pint for the monkey. And he wasn’t Italian at all. Spoke Welsh like a preacher" is the breeding ground for monkey bar jokes:
- 2018-07-28 12:37 Dylan Thomas pub scene BARMAID Seen the film at the Elysium Mr Griffiths there’s snow isn’t it did you come up on your bicycle our pipes burst Monday… NARRATOR A pint of bitter, please. https://boakandbailey.com/2018/07/dylan-thomas-depicts-a-wintry-pub-1947/
- 2018-07-28 12:31 retro Simpsons: heavy nedal from Okilly Dokilly https://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2018/07/27/weird-band-of-the-week-okilly-dokilly/
- 2018-07-28 11:40 Weird freaking trans-speciesist shit next to Droxford churchyard
- 2018-07-28 10:41 Martin the Postie retirement party, Droxford
- 2018-07-28 10:20 @Transblawg Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
- 2018-07-28 10:04 @Transblawg It's bot propaganda - they got rid of the human journalists years ago
- 2018-07-28 10:03 Newish Peruvian chicha custom of dancing with coffins but did they copy it from the Ghanaians?
- 2018-07-26 22:06 Curious that no one has identified the often distinctive buildings in the film
- 2018-07-26 22:00 Did Ethel Carter, Langrish sub-postmistress for at least 45 years, MBE 1948, know love with Tom from West Meon in 1910? https://www.britishpathe.com/video/postwoman-mbe/
- 2018-07-26 08:17 The Tourist Board of Xanadu Did recently impose a fee On those who traveled far from home To visit Kubla’s pleasure dome Of $20, 9 – 3 To be fair, Coleridge was coning off an opium trip when he wrote the original http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/25/verses-composed-upon-reading-a-review-from-tripadvisor/
- 2018-07-25 21:08 Re the Fiona Onasanya story, curious how the name of brother Festus went from Rome to Nigeria
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6864027/labour-mp-fiona-onasanya-to-stand-trial-after-being-charged-with-perverting-the-course-of-justice/
- 2018-07-25 20:51 Really chuffed to have met Andy Hewson of Stop The World, first ever famous Cornish band:
- 2018-07-25 14:36 BLOG: In the footsteps of Spartacus: a self-guided walk from Ciampino Airport to Rome along the Appian Way http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/25/in-the-footsteps-of-spartacus/
- 2018-07-25 08:22 @Transblawg Wos wrong wiv "state above the rule of law"? Bunyan: "grace sits upon a throne that is higher than the law, above the law; and ... grace, therefore, is to rule before the law, and notwithstanding all the sentence of the law." I don't know this Grace woman.
- 2018-07-24 22:16 @jamesfeigenbaum I'm still waiting for a study to show that some particular ancient migration was driven by an allergenic need to get away from the neighbours' latest agricultural experiment
- 2018-07-24 22:07 Richard North: "there is no majority for Meow in Parliament." But surely a sizable minority are on Mephedrone
- 2018-07-24 22:03 "Should I write a novel about Donald Trump's conversion to Catholicism, and his embrace of Holy Purity and total poverty? He joins with anchorites on The Sinai. When he dies, the odour of sanctity is bottled by Ivanka and sold in pious outlets worldwide" https://colindavies.blogspot.com/2018/07/thoughts-from-galicia-spain-23718_24.html
- 2018-07-24 08:03 @tombcn Oh my God I am moving there.
- 2018-07-23 21:57 Chatsworth Road/Brooksby's Walk closure for new gas mains over the past couple of months has been wonderful for pedestrians & cyclists, but I guess the customary psycho gridlock is about to return #Hackney #Clapton @hackneycouncil
- 2018-07-23 21:43 Drought areolae: sycamore sucking up water, fox poo giving back uric acid, suns burnt above the occasional door
- 2018-07-23 21:26 At the local Turk, Nigerian guy washes his hands BEFORE having a poo, don't want to cover those white trousers with lamb fat
- 2018-07-23 20:03 Nancherrow, Penwith:
"Buy your fresh POLDARK EGGS 'ere! EGGS ½ Dozen. Fresh £1-20"
As far as I know, "egg" in English isn't (common) slang for "testicle," and the Spanish, who do use that vulgarism, haven't yet taken Aidan Turner and his man-eggs to their bosom
- 2018-07-23 13:40 The Chatsworth Road birdman, Sitting on the inside / Looking at the outside / Waiting for the evening pigeon? Dunno any good songs about birds in cages #Hackney #Clapton
- 2018-07-23 12:50 Benny Hill as patron saint of ecowarrior milkmen?
https://twitter.com/garykmrivers/status/1021166913601396737 - 2018-07-23 12:44 Patrick Kavanagh: There's nothing happening that you hate That's really worthwhile slamming; Be patient. If you only wait You'll see time gently damning Newspaper bedlamites etc https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-whole-hysterical-passing-show.html
- 2018-07-22 21:58 Aranda photos taken with Goytisolo in Almería in 1960. I loved Campos de Níjar https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/20/album/1532084427_563222.html https://amzn.to/2A7fAFA
- 2018-07-22 21:39 @Transblawg If I'd stuck with GF no 1 I'd probably either be artistic director of a multi million euro cat rescue foundation, funded by money laundered by granddad who sold workers to Germany, or I'd be drying out in a shallow grave in a pine forest. Missed opportunities.
- 2018-07-22 19:59 @Transblawg My impression was that there was quite a lot of that sort of thing in one-party towns, and not just where workers did less damage when they didn't work, but GDP per cap is only just below UK despite late start so someone's doing something right/wrong
- 2018-07-22 14:40 Another excellent chart showing how remarkable London's population pyramid is in EU context. In the British provinces one does feel rather as if one has entered a monstrous failing care home, tho an English speaker can chat to +- anyone, which certainly ain't the case in London https://twitter.com/ikashnitsky/status/1020612088555819008
- 2018-07-22 14:29 Hand cranked knife-grinder The surviving Spanish ones attach the machine to a moped or some such and have panpipes http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/07/22/ron-mccormicks-whitechapel-spitalfields/
- 2018-07-22 14:25 ALEBIT: Conjunction denoting a short period of time during which consumption of beer modifies intentions. Origins unknown, though folk etymology < albeit. "Time for some English art song, alebit with a Welsh singer" https://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2018/07/gerald-finzi-fear-no-more-heat-of-sun.html
- 2018-07-22 09:33 BLOG: Wilful mondegreens from the popular repertoire: Lionel Richie opens a butchery in Bradford, while Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra refuse to sell a raspberry ripple to the Archbishop of Canterbury in Jerusalem http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/22/wilful-mondegreens-from-the-popular-repertoire/
- 2018-07-22 08:27 One of the charms of the barrel organ is undoubtedly that after having been pulled over half a mile of London pavement its intonation approximates to that of the guiltiest of pleasures, a military band
- 2018-07-22 08:09 @DefendingBeef @justinjerez Cf the campaign against sheep on downland...
- 2018-07-22 08:07 Like waking up and realising you're already awake. https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/892512476260073473
- 2018-07-21 21:15 Do wealthy foreigners flock to Harley Street because it's near Dr. Watson's Baker Street?
- 2018-07-20 22:47 Fascinating. London = socially conservative immigration, Ireland = indigenous conservatism, but what about Iceland? https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1020284345695842304
- 2018-07-20 18:56 All 13 hours of the Soviet Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson serialisation in one file My favourite bit, which I will probably never reach, is the scenery in Hound of the Baskervilles. Baker St is in Riga. Theme is curiously & perhaps socio-critically archaic
- 2018-07-20 18:01 Neighbour from over the road sought for Perdita Durango sequel
- 2018-07-20 17:56 The Met are gradually catching up with my blog http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/06/07/leave-your-city-burnin-like-gamera/ https://twitter.com/MPSHackneyWick/status/1020318982459535360
- 2018-07-20 17:50 Analysis suggests that the only difference between chic Cornish butter and "Tesco British Butter (Salted)" appears to be that the former contains a higher and more satisfying level of salt. Tesco sausages are also deficient.
- 2018-07-19 21:44 Loved the gloriously Švejkian Herr Zangler in Newport Playgoers Society's On The Razzle at Minack even before discovering that Stoppard had borrowed it off Johann Nestroy, a mid-C19th Viennese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einen_Jux_will_er_sich_machen
- 2018-07-19 21:12 @Transblawg I hadn't seen that one. Thanks!!
- 2018-07-19 13:41 BLOG: A remarkable gravestone in Waltham Forest Muslim cemetery: If tears could build a stairway / And memories a lane, / We’d walk right up to heaven / And bring you home again http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/19/a-remarkable-gravestone-in-waltham-forest-muslim-cemetery/
- 2018-07-19 10:04 Michael Jackson "Keep on - to the Post Office / Don't stop till you get enough" & more personal mondegreens from Rol http://histopten.blogspot.com/2018/07/my-top-ten-mondegreens.html
- 2018-07-19 09:12 John Donne on mechanised puppets on what I take to be church organs: "in some organs puppits dance above / And bellows pant below which them do move." Pronunciation guesstimate: … https://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2018/07/voices-of-earlier-english-john-donne.html
- 2018-07-19 08:58 Clip from the non-parodic film based on the original play
- 2018-07-19 08:57 And here's the script of Modicut's parody of The Dybbuk, which to be fair is considerably less accessible than the original play https://ingeveb.org/texts-and-translations/the-dybbuk-in-the-form-of-a-crisis
- 2018-07-19 08:54 Here's Great Small Works presenting their show about Modicut
- 2018-07-19 08:58 Clip from the non-parodic film based on the original play
- 2018-07-19 08:53 Good presentation about Modicut, a between-wars New York Yiddish puppet theatre duo http://archive.jewishcurrents.org/modicut-puppet-theater/
- 2018-07-19 08:49 Ah, but the poor can always forage for plastic and be paid in company store tokens
- 2018-07-19 08:49 Ah, but the poor can always forage for plastic and be paid in company store tokens
- 2018-07-19 08:45 Guardian, confusing aspiration & achievement. Supermarkets bag product to reduce theft & keep prices down for paying punters. With no other bagging tech available, for whom would killing plastic work in impoverished Penzance except wealthy (expat) retirees & shoplifters?
- 2018-07-18 20:09 Qué será será is good
- 2018-07-18 20:09 Qué será será is good
- 2018-07-18 20:07 RT @AndrewM138: Iggy Pop singing Surfin Bird to his bird is the last pure thing online
- 2018-07-18 19:59 Anyone got a collection of Dave Cash's (Yiddish) lyrics? I'm after Der Shere fun Seville and a couple of others
- 2018-07-18 14:19 @Transblawg Local MP obviously hasn't visited for a while @AndrewRosindell
- 2018-07-17 13:35 JK Rowling has undone all Rudyard "jingo imperialist" Kipling's good work, and the effect's far more powerful when you weight by sales. My favourite book as a child featured an anthropomorphic bear, and I have never recovered. https://twitter.com/j_wils/status/1019203058281189376
- 2018-07-17 13:26 Slightly frustrating that those dragged along to megalithic monuments on the Celtic fringe write them off as "so Father Ted," but sometimes they've got a point: standing stone near the Merry Maidens in Penwith
- 2018-07-17 08:05 @Crottebuster Always makes me think of the time as a child when I ate my siblings' strawberries, cream & scones & was violently sick.
- 2018-07-17 07:44 WP says Jacob Collier has been "working on his one-man, audio-visual live performance vehicle." Some of us already have a barrel organ.
- 2018-07-17 06:49 Another triumph for UK anti-money-laundering authorities. Not
- 2018-07-16 21:34 BLOG: Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 5: Match, by Splin: yet another Anglophile, with bits of Pushkin and Wilkie Collins
http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/16/top-10-russian-football-songs-no-5-match-the-match-by-splin-splean-spleen-2006/
- 2018-07-16 21:03 Also popular with Russian bands. Vivat Saint-Petersburg
- 2018-07-16 21:03 Also popular with Russian bands. Vivat Saint-Petersburg
- 2018-07-16 21:01 Good march composer, new to me: Franz von Blon. The fine Amsterdam Police Band in 1956 playing Heil Europa, a work happily unknown to conspiracy theorists:
- 2018-07-15 12:23 BLOG: “‘Tis glorious misery to be born a man”: the true, Romford origins of a tomb inscription at Zennor, Penwith, Cornwall, generally taken to refer to a hen-pecked husband http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/15/the-true-origins-of-a-tomb-inscription-at-zennor-penwith-cornwall/
- 2018-07-14 08:41 Mark Hattam doesn't seem to have got this one http://www.hattam.co.uk/gallery/St_Just_Cemetery
- 2018-07-14 08:38 Some credit it to Charles Wesley, but first ghits are 2nd half of C19th & Anglican churchyard, so this attribution to John Mason Neale more plausible Bondage ending, love descending, indeed https://archive.org/stream/Resurgit#page/n305/mode/2up
- 2018-07-14 08:26 Victorian doggerel of the day from St Just old churchyard, apparently a celestial Premier Inn:
No longer must the mourners weep
And call departed Christians dead;
For death is hallowed into sleep,
And every grave becomes a bed.
- 2018-07-14 07:16 Here it is said to be a Morecambe & Wise gag https://www.metafilter.com/137269/I-assure-you-the-death-notice-Im-looking-for-will-be-on-the-front-page
- 2018-07-14 07:09 Takes courage to preface a novel with a good joke
- 2018-07-14 07:08 "What have you been doing?" he asks. "I said take him to the zoo." "We've been to the zoo, Comrade Major," says the militiaman, "& the circus. & now we're going to the pictures." https://amzn.to/2NhwFyf
- 2018-07-14 07:08 Epigraph to Andrey Kurkov, Death & the Penguin: A Militia major is driving along when he sees a militiaman standing with a penguin. "Take him to the zoo," he orders. Some time later the same major is driving along when he sees the militiaman still with the penguin.
- 2018-07-12 11:36 My favourite Trump nickname, take it which way you will: Tangerine Caesar
- 2018-07-12 06:56 Museums about to become less whiny? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/arts/design/germany-mobile-worlds-mkg-museum.html
- 2018-07-10 22:27 TrevOrgans, just saying http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6054
- 2018-07-06 22:48 GDR Communist Party's alleged list of approved terms for Brits: "paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators, arch cowards and collaborators, conceited dandies or playboy soldiers." https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/07/06/international-relations-3/
- 2018-07-06 15:20 But he still hasn't called me to ask if I'll turn his telly on https://twitter.com/StamfordHill4L/status/1015188649993031680
- 2018-07-06 14:24 BLOG: Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 6: Manchester United FC by Whiteman the Blacksoul (2013): Russophone Kazakh rapper tramples the identitarian jungle in praise of his idols. With William Blake, and Guf and his granny http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/06/top-10-russian-football-songs-no-6-manchester-united-fc-by-whiteman-the-blacksoul-2013/
- 2018-07-06 13:02 @thameswater Ta! It looked like a good blast of water would fix a lot of it, but there's probably not much that can be rerouted from the other channels at the moment
- 2018-07-06 12:50 @thameswater That was quick! If memory serves, the River Lea Navigation between the end of the demolished east-bank industrial estate 200m north of Tottenham Lock and the Enfield bus garage was pretty nasty. The western side is very shallow and clogged in places
- 2018-07-06 12:33 Walked up to Enfield yesterday morning and saw quite a lot of this. Negligible water flow, no dredging (only depth is along boat path), little weeding https://twitter.com/leaboaters/status/1015199660993122304
- 2018-07-06 12:30 Securitisation of infirmity https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/07/06/1530875848000/New-age-communities/
- 2018-07-06 11:08 Ah, yes, CafePress
- 2018-07-05 18:56 BLOG: Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 7: The unofficial anthem of FC Zenit (St Petersburg) takes its tune & several lines from a 1960s song evoking the Siege of Leningrad & a verse & style from a performance by Liverpool fans of You’ll Never Walk Alone http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/05/top-10-russian-football-songs-no-7/
- 2018-07-05 15:20 Instead of quietly suppressing it, some Spanish translate the execrable thanonym "vibrant" as "vibrante." Appalling.
- 2018-07-05 10:16 Researchers have discovered that Magritte's pipe WAS a pipe after all https://twitter.com/elmundotoday/status/1014813518166708224
- 2018-07-05 10:03 Walthamstow Marsh, 06:00: slugs scarpering to the shady side of the path, dead shrew on its back with glistening tummy, zoophiliac porn scattered half-way across (hope the cattle are OK)
- 2018-07-05 09:20 French constitution no longer recognises discrimination on the basis of "race," but "origin" stays: "original" to replace "racist" as one-size-fits-all insult ("You facking original cant"), and original individuals to seek refuge elsewhere? https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2018/06/27/les-deputes-suppriment-le-mot-race-de-la-constitution_5322107_823448.html
- 2018-07-04 20:43 Wondering how much money could be made on Stamford Hill this Saturday, turning on tellies for football-loving Haredim just before 3
- 2018-07-04 20:39 Just saw a jay scavenging on Lauriston Road, E9. Never seen one in a town before.
- 2018-07-04 20:27 The Pastels, Cycle, from Illumination (1997)
- 2018-07-04 15:35 BLOG: Top 10 Russian football songs: No. 8: the 1938 Futbol’nyy Marsh (“Football March”) by Matvey Blanter, composer of Stalin-era patriotic ditties. Plus a barrel alarm clock, a Shostakovich anecdote, a copyright tussle, and more Blatner material. http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/04/top-10-russian-football-songs-no-8/
- 2018-07-04 14:58 @ibexsalad @pearkes And all without using the word $hitstorm
- 2018-07-04 12:58 Look at the crap this guy posts https://twitter.com/PolemicTMM/status/1014480343766888449
- 2018-07-04 10:37 BLOG: Etymology of Trippier: does Kieran have a goatherd or a tripe merchant in his paternal line? http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/04/etymology-of-trippier/
- 2018-07-04 06:59 Iss art innit. https://twitter.com/BricklaneBorn/status/1014194834947674112
- 2018-07-03 17:49 German phonological revenge for the Sports Direct Auf Wiedersehen tshirts? https://www.sportsdirect.com/team-germany-auf-wiedersehen-t-shirt-590132 https://twitter.com/EnglishGibson/status/1014200236095533057
- 2018-07-03 15:29 I think the "weren't me" hand signal that Granit Xhaka makes as he fouls Viktor Claesson is the same one used by Hackney drivers to tell you they aren't going to stop at zebras.
- 2018-07-03 14:38 Belted Galloways are just the thing around town at the moment. Richmond fine & scold you if you take a a small, yappy Richmond dog near their herd, but dogs & owners are rather more fearsome on this side of town. https://twitter.com/etlawlor1/status/1014128742145384448
- 2018-07-02 16:41 BLOG: Musical objects found in the Damrak and Rokin Amstel-bed excavations:
a treasure trove from the tunnel bores for Amsterdam’s controversial North-South metro line. http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/07/02/musical-objects-found-in-the-damrak-and-rokin-amstel-bed-excavations/
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