Tag: london
Trump takes up organ-grinding
“It’s out of tune, it’s who we are”
Christmas carousels
Impossible automata for my street organ this holiday season. Featuring Georg Büchner, Ignaz Bruder, German Christmas pyramids, dancing Hasidim, Lieutenant Kijé as you’ve probably never seen it, Le Tigre, and a crustacean.
An organ-grinder at Archway
Pleasures and treasures of the Edwardian street, by a descendant of Scottish banditti.
Hackney Brook restoration scheme
Iain Sinclair wrote of when “global warming rolls a warm sea [up] the course of the old Hackney Brook.” The flow’s going to be the other way. Let me explain.
Migrants entering Slovenia from Croatia
Plus Gibbon and Leigh Fermor on migrations past.
Karl Marx condemns organ-grinders!
“Vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars”
Henry Fielding on who gives a fack where [Columbus] was born (answer: not [Columbus])
Past performance is no guide to future performance, my dears.
Two versions of Flann O’Brien’s “The workman’s friend”
With some relevant chunks of Henry Fielding.
Reïmagining Neil Young
