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Some migration songs

With an introduction by St. Spike in the Moon.

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

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.

Tweets for September 2015

Flores de crespón

Un verso para M.

<em>Lagerstroemia indica</em>.

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