Spanish Golden Age – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

January tweets

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

I am the Crippled Demon, Hell’s fleas, the inventor of puppets

A half-translation of a list of minor torments by Luis Vélez de Guevara for a day on which the Christian Devil triumphed.

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).

Winchester is the centre of English civilisation

Sez Lucio Vicente López in Recuerdos de viaje (1881). This is apparently in part due to the Normans having invaded without women, thus enabling the maintenance of The Saxon Character. He’s wrong. Winchester is suspiciously continental, while Romsey is Ethelflaeda, who sang psalms while skinny-dipping in the Test, and lithe & lusty hooligans.

Did the house that Jack built come from Spain?

Or, How to cook the old lady who swallowed a fly without stooping to cannibalism. Cumulative songs (and monstrous nested stuffing recipes) in Quixote and Estebanillo González, with the grossest video you’ll see today.

Cruikshank, The progress of passion (1792).

Cuentos, Canta, borrachos, y demás noticias

Los cuentos de Eva funcionan muy bien, tanto en español como en inglés. Su vestido fue buena idea, él mío no tanto: mi disfraz estándar será traje/frac con peluqaza Javier Bardem en No es país para viejos. Ahora tengo que vender el concepto a escuelas – he tenido contacto con cuatro, y me gustaría hacer…

Con Eva Muñoz en pl. Virreina, Barcelona.

Richard Hawkins, a Catholic convert?

That’s what Lope de Vega and Spanish documents say, so how come the British don’t mention it?

Amyas Leigh and Salvation Yeo sharing a superior popular opium in <a href='http://books.google.com/books?id=jB8GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA272'>Westward Ho!</a> Edwardian tobacco box from <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=669781&partid=1'>the BM</a>.

En pelota

Stark naked, or wearing a curious garment?