Drinking – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Russian folk song in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona

I thought it was a recent version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka theme, but it turns out that Pete Seeger is the intermediary. Plus an East End Jewish version of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

In praise of British arse

How amiably drunken shagfests could resolve the burka problem in a manner acceptable to freedom-loving readers of this blog.

Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!

From this month’s Barcelona Connect: Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar! Probably the biggest jug of cocktail in the city, and certainly not one to be tackled without a good group of friends! Pippermint offers a delicious variety of cocktails, plus student night on Thursdays, and you can catch the…

Portrait of the artist as a jam-jar

And of a great British pub landlord, Juan from Málaga.

Pig / lion / monkey / child wine

A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.