Les bourgeois – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

New World Order

Someone remind me why Gaddafi is to be pursued for crimes against humanity but Laurent Gbagbo is not.

Nun on motorised pretend piano

There’s been discussion about my choice of a trike and the idea that I’m going to be wearing a suit after years in a dress.

Get your authentic copy of Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Green Book before they’re all burnt!

For sale, 50 hard-cover copies liberated from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during the legendary 1986 squat party.

Source of <a href='http://media.photobucket.com/image/gtmtdi%20squat%20libyan%20embassy%20%28penguin%20collection%29/killyourpetpuppy/Various%20related/God%20Told%20Me%20To%20Do%20It/img301.jpg?o=1'>clipping</a> unknown, uploaded by <a href='http://s208.photobucket.com/home/killyourpetpuppy'>killyourpetpuppy</a>, who has some marvellous photos

Goethe, responsible for Victorian pteridomania?

The disastrous horticultural consequences of fucked literary translation.

Google Translate output depends on your default browser language?

If your browser language is Polish, “Grób PaÅ„ski” translates into English as “tomb of the lord”, while if it’s English the result is “Holy Sepulchre”. How does it work? English speakers know what a sepulchre is, but there’s no cognate in Polish so GT looks for a simpler alternative for Polish English speakers? They’ve got…

Death/transfiguration of Vallcarca

An excellent piece by Israel Punzano presents a more balanced view than my La Clota rant of the destruction and–according to some–the rebirth of a decaying neighbourhood.

Preview of organ grinder repertoire suggested by you folks

Re this post: the form is still here. (There’s more elsewhere, but it’s not as interesting.) I still need to get someone to fix the texts etc etc before ElOrganillero.com is broadcast to the world, but we’ve got a few provisional bookings starting July. Now, how’s organ construction coming on?!

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, and there’ll be more news here shortly. This is the original–from an old band of mine–of one arrangment I…

Bicing accepts principle of parallel universes

Perhaps not, but they’ve removed from my records the journey that yesterday they were going to charge me 280€ for.