Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians
“Rhinoceros of the highlands / Beast coming from the South, it comes along steaming, / It comes from Pompi and from Kgobola-diatla.” With excerpts from oral poetry about cattle and other domestic and wild animals, marijuana, bicycles and the 2nd Boer War; with Kipling and other European South African railway poetry; and with Hugh Masekela as uitsmyter.
Symmetries in textiles, architecture and music.
Pictures & video from a gig in Leytonstone, plus the usual nonsense.
Cranking it up along the River Lea.
The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.
With his guide to the Ziph language, and with the death of a Savoyard organ-grinder’s white mouse, of which he was probably not the author in any sense.
More inanity from the Hackney organity.
Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.
Update includes the top 10 posts at time of closure.