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New books for old

Transblawg posts re the adaptation of the language used in British novels for the American market and vice versa. This subject also occasionally exercises John of Iberian Notes (2003/10/17, for example), who thinks that it’s time we Brits started caring again about the eccentric pastimes of folk who were so very rude to us only [...]

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noten

Waarom worden muzieknoten altijd verkeerd geschreven op kerstkaarten en - hier - monumenten? Ik vermoed dat ze het bewust doen, misschien om te laten zien dat het kunst is, en geen echte muziek.
Josep Anselm Clavé (1824-1874) wordt beschouwd als de vader van de koorzang in Catalunya. Er is een heuse federatie naar hem genoemd, met [...]

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Els Campionats Mundials de Barbes i Bigotis

El post. Els resultats.

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berlín digital

Crec que hi ha poca gent aquí que sap que a Berlín es va apagar la televisió anàloga a principis d’agost. Jo tampoc sabia fins avui. Aquestes pantalles són d’una època en la qual la qualitat de recepció i de reproducció era realment dolenta:

 

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Mrs Moore visits the specialist

Seriously, did Mr Moore publish his book before or after the release of the similarly-named she-males flick (which I honestly discovered after this occurred to me, and to which I am not going to link for other reasons)?

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Dalí vs Turner (ii)

Naar aanleiding van een post over Dalí, vergeleek ik hem de andere dag met Turner. Nu blijkt dat dhr Snor echt een hekel had aan mijn landgenoot:
Een totale ramp, het hoogtepunt van romantische sentimentaliteit, en het tastbare bewijs dat het onmogelijk is om tegelijkertijd Engelsman en grote schilder te zijn.
Wat ik niet snap is hoe [...]

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Apparently immigrants are being denied access to virtually all night bars in Barcelona’s popular Raval district. I’m an immigrant, and I’ve never had any problems getting in (getting out is a different story), so I guess El Periódico is using the same definition as one of my ex mother-in-laws: “You’re not an immigrant, you’re white!” Despite the beatings and the burnings, Spain’s nignogs don’t complain, which is why the Americans and British are clearly racists while it is equally clear that the Spanish were just having a little innocent fun with those damn Chinkies.

Code-swapping, rather than Gibraltar-Andalusian. This week’s instalment comments on the stateless national soap opera, maritime conflicts and confusions with Spain.

Yesterday the state-approved and -subsidised competition to Baldie Galactic was observed claiming that trencadís was yet more proof of the quite extraordinary originality of the Catalan mind, etc etc. Not so: it has been around for centuries, and any connoisseur of English cathedral windows will be familiar with my favourite application of break-it-and-mend-it–the new/non-sense created from jumbled shards of medieval glass at places like Wells and Winchester after the Puritans had smashed things up. Which isn’t in any sense to diminish the marvellous pique assiette undertaken by Josep Maria Jujol for old Mr Gaudy at Park Güell:


Nosferatu in Bremen is essentially a flitting liminality … the German soul instinctively prefers twilight to daylight.” Way too many bloody Teutonic incorporeal materialist graffiteros lurking around on c/ Molist, Barcelona.


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