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.
Tag: monkey
Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017
More inanity from the Hackney organity.
Organ-grinder tweets for November 2017
More monkey mess from the peripatetic Homerton/Hackney barrel organ.
London organ-grinding tweets for October 2017
Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.
The 1660 Foire de Saint-Germain
Featuring castanets, monkeys, marionettes, and human and tortoise castles.
London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017
Barrel/street organ stuff.
Organ-grinding tweets for August 2017
The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.
Sister Mary and the Bird
Translations from Welsh and Yiddish revealing ornithomancy amongst the 19th century north Welsh and Jewish Lithuanians.
Cuckoos
A new translation of Joan Maragall’s poem about the anarchist bombing of the Barcelona Opera in 1893, and a limerick by the monkey.
The debasement of the European mind
A populist US senator meets an Italian organ-grinder in Rome in 1859.
