I’d like to draw to your attention, if I may, to the beauty of the world, the philanthropic tenderness of human nature and the enraptured sense of optimism with which we can move forward into an auspicious, bountiful and prosperous future.   But that’s not gonna happen. This place is a dump. So here’s a […]

  Ma the far Cass (Part Two)    Happy New Year, and all that shit. Where was I? Oh, yeah. Things I hate. Fuck it:    The General Public        The general public are (generally) selfish, loathsome, rude, stupid, potentially violent cretins (not you, of course. You’re brilliant). I wish I could feel for sure that anyone using the tube, anyone at all, is […]

Ma the far Cass    With Brexit almost breaking, Paris in flames and the planet’s current super-power ‘governed’ by a select team of caring, globalist multi-millionaires, led by a larger-than-life Tango-Troll, it is easy to understand why, at this moment, the question on everyone’s lips is, of course, “What are the top ten things that really piss off a busker?”  Well, […]

Firstly, following the frenzied and sustained attempt by a white Fiat Uno to ram my Aston Martin off the M1 the other night, as well as the attempted poisoning of two of my gazelles and the three handwritten death threats (spelling and grammar so poor that they could only have come from an acoustic busker […]

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So, a quick recap. As you know, buskers are split into two factions – acoustic and electric, though there is occasional cross-breeding, absconding and genetic modification, and new hybrid models occasionally appear in both camps. You’ll probably start acoustic. But if you’ve got any sense, you’ll get the fuck away from those heathens, as soon as you […]