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: moors
Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017
More inanity from the Hackney organity.
London organ-grinding tweets for October 2017
Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.
Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
Ya en los nidos de antaño no hay pájaros ocaño
An elderly Andalusian’s way of saying “this year” may constitute early warning of global (or at least Peninsular) cataclysm, perhaps a regional franchise of the 2012 phenomenon.
The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”
This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.
A Barcelona spamvertising blog
Or was the Second Anglo-Afghan War actually fought in the Pyrenees?
Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained
Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.
Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
Party political prejudice, or yet more historical memory bollocks?
Revisionist history of 17th century Mediterranean trade
Molly Greene describes the complex anarchy that existed between the collapse of the Mediterranean powers and the entry of northern fleets.