apropos de nuffinque ...

clapham junction, its a jungle out there ...

it must be two years since they were burned out in the riots

now party superstores are really up and running

they even found some more "retro" dummies for the window display

http://www.partysuperstores.co.uk/clapham.php

you couldn't move at their shop this morning

it was full of australians getting in to costume for the rugby sevens

and there were too many antipodeans on the platforms to fit into the trains

jerome trilles has left the planet ... i've known him since i was seven ... there's hardly anyone left with whom i can disagree passionately

no wonder the weather's turned nasty ...

... his departure has created a vortex

i'd better start suggesting some music for the wake ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM

incidentally ...

james turrell's "tank" ... i had a free ride on this in phoenix a few years ago .... marvellous !

http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2013/04/23/turrells-ganzfeld-experiment-part-2/

cymru am byth ... unless you're a ghost town ... via the excellent iconic photos blog, and onwards in to the e-wilderness

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/boy-destroying-piano-phillip-jones-griffiths/


http://www.fochriwhistory.co.uk/page68.htm

ordnance survey map and google earth links from alan george's encyclopaedic site ...

http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/pantywaun.htm

... miners photographed in april 1940 by william vandivert

and what you might see now ...

sometimes a rogue sunset escapes from las vegas and makes its way to europe to afflict our innocent eyes ...

we saw this in the diaghilev show at the V&A, ... but i've only just tracked down this exerpt from the lovely fillum that formed a tiny part of a wonderful exhibition

http://www.newangle.co.uk/#!viewProject&projectID=113

click to the second page of new angle's page for a snatch of dance and imagery

the dancer is begona cao

on the banks of the thames ...

 ... but i know where i'd rather swim

apropos de sumpfinque ... 'cos he's a good 'un

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daumier

.. and i nearly forgot this one ...

of course, ardizzone's debt to daumier's genius is easy to see ...

a lucky find at oxfam ...

sometimes i think there's a little too much girly stuff around the flat ...

extwa, double-bonus, twiple-dividend, gwatuitous wabbitwy

i blame you all ... no one told me coelacanths had relatives

... and belatedly introducing Latimeria's aged aunt, Mawsonia ...

... of course, i'd gladly credit the artist if i knew his/her name

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/20/coelacanths-are-unexceptional-products-of-evolution/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth

you have been warned ...

tired of life in the fast lane, watson and crick make a break for it

... but are caught in the beams of my trusty pocket torches

whilst driving this morning, i listened to a learned discussion of the life and essays of montaigne on BBCradio4 ... i listened again when i got home, and then drove to the village where he had lived using google earth's street view

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0qmj

i think i'll call the wabbits watson and crick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_Structure_of_Nucleic_Acids:_A_Structure_for_Deoxyribose_Nucleic_Acid