In spite of the rain, the floods and the bombs, today is a great day...

...because it is the birthday of the wonderful polyphonia. Everybody cheer!

Stay away from this [censored]

I don't think I have been so furious in years. Gerald Augustinus' Closed Cafeteria, a blog I USED TO read regularly - they can forget about me from now on - has published in full the infamous racist speech that ended the career of loathsome British politician Enoch Powell in 1968. The blog claimed that this piece of filthy black-bashing, aimed entirely at people with dark skins, had anything to do with the current episodes of terrorism in Britain. This is total, complete, unmitigated rubbish, and shows a revolting inability to distinguish between opposition to militant Islam and brute racism with which I do not want to be involved. If anyone else here has ever had the bad idea of reading Closed Cafeteria, I urge you to stop and let him know why.

you couldn't make it up dept. no.68: the wandering song

I required audio files of "House of the Rising Sun", without specifying a performer, from a file sharing site. Within a few hours I received performances ascribed to the Doors, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, the Moody Blues and the Kinks. They all were the same identical version of the legendary version by the Animals.