Day archive for December 2nd, 2005

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Voodoo Dracula

Posted: December 2nd 2005 22:41. Last modified: December 2nd 2005 22:48

Originally the thing we’re doing on the 18th was going to be a straightforward ((intro + song) * 15) kind of arrangement, but madness kicked in about a fortnight ago. First it was going to a kind of medieval morality thing (there’s a good Catalan play along these lines), with Death killing everybody, including the [...]


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Hassidic reggae

Posted: December 2nd 2005 22:05.

If Stamford Hill used the web & went to concerts, then I’d love to know what they made of this man (via Savage Minds).


Categories: Les bourgeois, Music, Splog

Patriarch of Antioch: Franks are jugulators

Posted: December 2nd 2005 17:13. Last modified: December 2nd 2005 17:22

No word on the Berbers in Paul of Aleppo, The travels of Macarius Patriarch of Antioch – Part Two, London: The Oriental Translation Fund, 1836:
At this festival of Easter, an imperial ordinance was sent forth by the Emperor, on the subject of killing meat; for from Wallachia, Moldavia, and the country of the Cossacks, to [...]


Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Liberals & locals

“Catalan separatists out to appease Berber jugulators”

Posted: December 2nd 2005 16:31. Last modified: December 2nd 2005 17:00

Christmas has come early for ultra-nutty separatists, Plataforma per Catalunya (PxC), after a fortune teller said on telly that they had purchased the winning number in the big seasonal lottery. However, the calls they’re apparently getting from mini-lot repurchasers all over Spain (sorry, “the Spanish state”–IRA-speak rules…) will of course not persuade them to take [...]


Categories: Empire, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

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Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 14 de març de 1918 Ara, finalment, dóna gust de viure a Catalunya. La unanimitat és completa. Tothom està d’acord. Tots hem tingut, tenim o tindrem, indefectiblement, la grip. Fa quatre o cinc anys que llegeixo, cada dia, el Glosari de Xènius. En aquest moment no sembla pas haver-hi, per a la secció d’Eugeni d’Ors, tant d’entendriment com en altres èpoques. [...]
  • 14 de març de 1919 L’agitació obrera torna a abrivar-se. Tothom afirma que els conflictes que hi ha en porta tindran unes proporcions mai no vistes. A través dels diaris és impossible de saber exactament el que es discuteix. La informació és confusa, difusa i controlada. L’obscuritat és total. Molts tramvies són accionats ja per soldats. A les gabelles, la [...]

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