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The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.

In the footsteps of Spartacus

A self-guided walk from Ciampino Airport to Rome along the Appian Way.

Watch out for this guy.

A remarkable gravestone in Waltham Forest Muslim cemetery

If tears could build a stairway / And memories a lane, / We’d walk right up to heaven / And bring you home again.

A moving tribute to

Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017

More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.

Rats/mice bearing the cat to his grave in Tarragona, anticipating Russian prints of the scene.

Transvestite barrel organ dancers in 1930s Whitechapel and the 1860s London West End

With acrobats, clowns, and Doris and Thisbe, goddesses of wind.

Acrobats whirling to the sound of a barrel organ on a chain carousel at the National Fair, Bergen, Norway, 1928.

Juggernaut, harvest king

Soundscaping the ERO Grapeliner SF200 self-propelled grape-harvesting machine.

An ERO Grapeliner SF200 in the Rüdesheim vineyards.

Protected: Seniorita’s sauna and massage parlour, Chatsworth Road, Clapton, London (This post started elsewhere as a bit of linguistic jokery about George Formby, Al Jolson and Balkan turbo-folk, but unhappily became a focus for daft, drunk men looking for prostitutes. To read it please enter the German version of the first name of the translator of the Bible into Middle English)

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Morons, Zamorans and the Galician Obama

Like all good liberal democrats (no caps) we want to imagine that everyone else shares our condition, but it don’t always work.

Vote Sinaí Giménez

The Galician Obama, the Vigan Podemos…

M. Le Cossec is no longer standing.

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