Halfway there!

I know I've already had The Tube, but given that it is Happy 150th Birthday, London Underground! there are a cluster of nice pieces in today's Guardian G2 on various aspects of Tubal life. (Though I notice a certain ignorance of the role of the Underground, and its defunct stations in particular, in Neverwhere, ho-hum.)

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One bagpiper busker, okay. But this is an entirely different bagpiping busker, who, instead of looking like he should be blowing cool jazz in a smoky cellar c. 1962, is wearing Ye Full Hieland Drag.

Maybe there is someone in station management at Euston who is a fan of the pipes, or something.

Also, ahem: surely today of all days, they might have ( Read more... )

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New busker in Euston tube station.

Playing saxophone version of 'Summer Lovin'' from Grease.

Totally incongruous?

Or a sweet flash of teenage aestival bliss in the middle of winter?

Or, possibly the only tune he can play?

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Took the MARC line down to Washington today.

Arrived at the station early enough that I was able to work out how to print out my prebooked Amtrak ticket to Philadelphia, the online confirmation page for which went HAI HEER IS BARCODE, PLZ 2 B PRINTIN OUT N WAVIN AT MACHINE - not very helpful if one is accessing their site via a netbook and PRINTER ( Read more... )

Bagpipe busker no 2 (the one who wears a black kilt and beret, rather than 70s hippie gear) was tootling away this morning by the Victoria Southbound platform in Euston tube station.

Modern jazz for bagpipes? Did Stockhausen ever write for the pipes?

Anyway, nothing you could either dance to or march away to war with.

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Further to discussion on last night's post, thinking further about fun and pleasure.

I think that over the time I have been posting here I have made my views on the importance of fun and the non-guiltiness of pleasures quite clear: what with floating a panel on the topic at Wiscon on top of all that.

There may be things which people do for fun ( Read more... )

Not, I think, the same bagpiper but a different one, doing his thing in the official busker spot in Euston Tube Station.

This one is dressed in the gear, i.e. kilt, etc: plus sunglasses (huh?).

However, the actual music was not recognisably a reel or a fling or anything one could dance to or march to war encouraged by.

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Annoyances:

People who are participating on a scholarly listserv should have as a given the requirements of attentive reading and due attention to correct citation as part of their professional skillset, surely? Why is it, then, that they will contribute to responses to a query as if the previous respondent was the person who raised the query in ( Read more... )

Yes, Mozart in the midst of Euston Tube Station = good.

However, the busker can still only do the slow movement of the Clarinet Concerto!

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