Iran – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

From the lexical underground, “rapport”

Symmetries in textiles, architecture and music.

Spider Monkeys by Vincent Desjardins is smarter than most tessellations.

The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018

Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.

A Dutch Polichinel on a buffalo in 1856 (2018-02-01 18:10).

She’s got me by the balls

Castration is still legitimate justification for the cancellation of a marriage in Iran. But is there any restriction on DIY? “Khomeini concludes that a man may have intercourse with a girl under nine years old and divorce her without restriction,” so it would seem most unfair if that exit route were precluded. Danton having a…

Paradise and town-planning

The Turks and Jews of Istanbul demonstrate that co-existence is not impossible.