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Accordion bonanza

With some Norwegian, a bunny, and a bell-ringing act.

Jeremy Simon.

Some migration songs

With an introduction by St. Spike in the Moon.

Humanity, viewed from the spike of St. Lawrence's, Gnosall.

How to piss off America

Via the poke: WTF is Steam? Can we finally stop identifying states with languages?

So where does Silvio Berlusconi stand on organ-grinders?

Unfortunately Alan Friedman’s excellent authorised bio, My Way, leaves us none the wiser.

Unattributed caricature from

Unlucky organ-grinder-ballad-singers

Kasper Lutz in German (occasionally), nameless in French and English?

Industrial Workers of the World logo.

Toros: Finito de Córdoba indulta a ‘Organillero’, de Fuente Ymbro

Pros, contras, divagaciones.

Krishna tocando la flauta para Radha y dos vacas, detalle (1897, Pune).

Mucho piojo y mucho español

En el puerto de Hamburgo.

El aseo de una familia española, según los franchutes (1812).

Hanseatic legionaries, playing at Waterloo and at Punch and Judy

A Hamburg organ-grinder’s dad at Waterloo, and whatever happened to his son’s Drehorgellieder?

Tambourmajor Georg Küper (Senior) pictured (pace Rabe) by Jessen in <a href='https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_Buek'>Buek</a>'s 1847 <em>Hamburgische Kostüme</em>. Buy him now from Strahlendorf! Or just <a href='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UmFqZgPu1Mo/VhZVlEpYUrI/AAAAAAABhA0/p8lb9zUru3s/s1200-Ic42/kuper.JPG'>embiggen</a>!

The fat lady sang

Obesa cantavit: now there’s a lovely memorial.

Kenneth Lawrence, 1929-2002, by the River Lee near Waltham Abbey.

Monkeys here, monkeys there, monkeys everywhere

Victor Hugo puts on his black cap.

Forget the foot fetishism: Madame Bovary is Punch's role-reversed Judy (Jan Klaassen show above) and Lheureux the dog that drags her to Hell.

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