Entertainment – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Tweets for June 2017

Organ-grinding in Hackney, London.

Tweets for May 2017

Barrel-organ-ish stuff from London.

The Devil’s Corbyn of Hell

A General Election post, featuring Edgar Allan Poe, a manual for medieval female anchorites, the RSPB, Le Corbusier, Magpie Corvid, a corvine conspiracy, and Tolkien’s Nazgûl.

Politicians engaging with voters during the 2017 British General Election, as depicted in Vasily Vereshchagin, The Apotheosis of War (1871).

Tweets for April 2017

I know where your house lives, but sometimes the front door’s a struggle

Featuring Abel and Marguerite Chevalley and their Concise Oxford French Dictionary.

Tweets for March 2017

Tweets for February 2017

Where did Petersburg’s organ-grinders go in winter?

I fear only some of them migrated with the swallows. Featuring Boris Sadovskoy, Yuri Norstein, Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov and Gogol.

The great Rolan Bykov in The Overcoat, with not an organ-grinder in sight.

Tweets for January 2017

Donald for Dalai Lama, or Pope, or Caliph, or something

A Trump Taj Mahal Casino multitrack jukebox, to help make religion rather better than it has been, again.