More pavements - beneath them the sewage

Pidgeon shit, dog-end roll-up, leaf on pavement

Its all lovely, sparkly about Brick Lane

East End Glitz: Round about Brick Lane

At the Estorick Collection, Canonbury Square, N1

Cut and paste, photo-montage, German and Russian Futurist, revolution posters.

An exhibition very worth seeing - images from your DaDa books in the flesh, well in the real cut-up paper at least. On till 21st Dec.

El Lissitzky, John Heartfield, German Man Beauty, to everyman his own football) George Grosz (Bloody serious, against sweaty feet)etc.

And The parents were round

Strains of the Daily Mail were flooding the place - escaped from the living-dead room out the chinks in the curtains.

They were coming in from everywhere and had TB and it was everywhere in the air-conditioners of hospitals. And you daren't walk the streets and they stole our word. We liked saying gay, you can't say gay now. We can't be gay, oh no, means something else now. And the Jews are running America. And they come here and get everything. They get houses straight away. And the prisons are like hotels. They have TV now and gymns. I wouldn't mind staying in prison. Its like a holiday and they send them on holidays. They have curtains. I'd have bars. And America's brought back chain-gangs - I'd do that. That and hanging, I'd bring back hanging. That Hitler had the right idea (That last is a favourite dad joke)And wasn't it terrible about that poor little baby getting killed by the parents. And the doctor in that case - missed the baby had a broken back - she was one of them with a scarf on her head.