Street performance – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Dr Frankenstein and Mr Ornette Coleman

You can’t make heads or tails out of it. RIP

Gato tocando theremín / Cat playing theremin

Via

Miley Cyrus’ “Pablow the blowfish”, the best thing since…

… well, since R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the closet”

Pablo Escobar at the <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abode_of_Chaos'>Abode of Chaos</a>.

Two versions of Flann O’Brien’s “The workman’s friend”

With some relevant chunks of Henry Fielding.

Contemporary etching of Fielding from his <em>Jonathan Wild the Great</em>.

Stalin’s organ works

But all its pipes are the same length, so it only plays one note. Plus totalitarian musical dogs and terror management studies.

Small (Australian) boy with a pet dog singing in (peaceful) unison (1939).

The true story, never revealed, of the barrow organ

There’s more to this eggcorn than Somerset genius.

Something I’ve been doing ever since I first heard a taped On the beach in the squat next to Islington Town Hall on Upper Street, with Ra$ta the incontinent cat periodically tumbling from his armchair perch, suffering stoically from his compulsive consumption of any small dark lumps discovered on his quite limited travels. Not that…

Since 1995, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority has installed a snowman made of tumbleweed in downtown Albuquerque.

On cycling in London after an absence of some years

Everyone now has a cute little helmet. Drunken pedallers are now frowned upon. Behaving like a sociopathic arsehole in other respects remains de rigueur.

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