Epidose 28 - Death To Ming!

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.  I've never been myself, but horology is an abiding interest.  At the intersection of sciences between horology and botany, we find the dandelion clock, which the French call pissenlit.  The English name also stems from French, dents de lion; the lion's teeth.  Two lions killed and ate 135 Kenyan railway workers, over a nine-month period in 1898.  It is posited that they may have been suffering from extremely bad toothache.

Listen Now.

I have never killed and eaten any lions.  I'm far too busy - mostly listening to folk song recordings from the early 1950s:

• Sir John Betjeman - The Arrest Of Oscar Wilde At The Cadogan Hotel
• Trans Am - Mr. Simmons
• Rick Potts - Sausage In A Bottle
• LAShTAL - Ballata No. 7
• Wallace House - I'm Seventeen Cum Sunday
• Sadistic Mika Band - Nanika Ga Um
• Jo'Burg Hawk - War Talk

You can email me at gcuesoterica@gmail.com.  You won't, of course.  But you can.

Twenty minutes. No refunds.

Epidose 27 - The Underwater Pig

Scooping out great fistfuls of hogflesh: argument over who gets the choicest meat; me wants the bellymeat, no no no me wants the headmeat...  Delicately flick the pointed tip of one's tongue into the vacant snout to slurp at the cool jelly up there.  It is not true that we are three meals away from barbarism; we are there already.

Listen Now.

Why not instead feast your auricles on these nourishing plats du jour:

• Linda McCartney - The Light Comes From Within
• Les Ouaiscécool - Les Cités d'Or
• The Sisterhood Of Convoluted Thinkers - The New Style Poetry
• Sun City Girls - El Mirage
• Hala Strana - Burh
• Multiphonic Ensemble - Fret

When the porker's picked down to its puckered bones, the prickling curly tail may yet prove invaluable as a toothpick. I do so love reading your emails.  One day I may publish a compendium of the best.  It will be a slender tome indeed. gcuesoterica@gmail.com.

Twenty minutes. No refunds.