March tweets
More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.
Tag: united States
Several Viennese musical curiosities
Karl Nagl’s claim that, unlike the Germans, Viennese organ-grinders are musicians, because they have “crank-sense.” And female yodelling with Dudlerinnen Trude Mally and Maly Nagl.
“Organ grinders to sleep in the wash house”
How a mass-produced 1960s joke sign for bars and pubs became evidence of historical authenticity before being censured as a hate crime against tinkers and thinkers (or organ-grinders, as we are often known).
June tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder
More barrel organ news from Hackney. Includes first posts from Top 10 Russian Football Song series.
The debasement of the European mind
A populist US senator meets an Italian organ-grinder in Rome in 1859.
A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Narco tombs in San Miguel Arcángel, Culiacán and Barcelona
Luis Estrada’s new narcoflick, El Infierno, a brilliant narcoart short by Don Bartletti, and a couple of my old photos.
Constantí Ribalaigua, the Catalan who DIDN’T invent the daiquiri, for Pete’s sake
Of Tate Cabré, ethnicity, creativity, and talking dogs that shit up walls.
Consum vs Conssum
Trademark theft to liven up the Spanish fruit and veg price-war?
Europe as a lost Rooseveltian propaganda colony
It does have its advantages. Ants are not one of them.