I’m a spaceman
A vocal introduction to the bars of Mars and other rubbish.
Tag: street performance
A sophist etymology of “Isle of Dogs”
Like the wharf, it comes from the Canaries. Not.
James Last, a bicycle trailer, and a pianola
The invisible ethnicity of Inspector Richard Tanner of the Met
The British-Jewish detective who hung the German murderer of a London banker. With photos of his tombstone in Winchester’s West Hill cemetery.
![Richard Tanner, late Inspector in the Metropolitan Detective Police Force. Born October 30th 1831, died October 19th 1873. [Also wife and mother-in-law.]](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-xofHafv88w4/T_wWdZwAO2I/AAAAAAABASs/EROVgCGThps/s1000/P1090088.JPG "Richard Tanner, late Inspector in the Metropolitan Detective Police Force. Born October 30th 1831, died October 19th 1873. [Also wife and mother-in-law.]")
Hic est bosun
Video of functional organ-MIDI set-up
Long time no see, but…
A curious vertical axis wind turbine in 16th century La Mancha
But how did it work?
How to write reggaeton
A fine template, but we prefer metapoetry.
Three classic Francophone tubes I’d never heard of
Boby Lapointe in Ta Katie t’as quitté, Petit Yodé and l’Enfant Siro in Premier jour à Paris, and Zao’s take on Ancien combattant.