Day archive for July 17th, 2006

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Black cock, anyone?

Posted: July 17th 2006 18:19. Last modified: July 17th 2006 18:26

Photo: Dolors Sans. More from the Festive Beastie Association

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

How to get Spaniards to vote on meaningless issues

Posted: July 17th 2006 17:17.

Buy into Spain’s only true national religion and double up ballot papers as lottery tickets. Like Arizona.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas

Posted: July 17th 2006 13:42.

Or El meu aerodesllissador estĂ  ple d’anguiles (Via Onze Taal)


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog, The sea

News/propaganda shorts from the Second Republic

Posted: July 17th 2006 13:04.

At the Filmoteca tonight (Monday) at 19:30, Tuesday at 22:00, Wednesday at 19:30, and Friday at 20:00.


Categories: Liberals & locals, Splog

When medianeras really look like party walls

Posted: July 17th 2006 12:20.

At JA Millán, via Spy’s spice and Boing Boing, with thanks to MM@Transblawg.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Fact-dodging Geoff Nunberg

Posted: July 17th 2006 11:39. Last modified: July 17th 2006 23:31

Sez he:
The fact is that the right owns those object+present participle compounds, as surely as it owns values, media bias, the lapel-pin flag, and sentences that begin with “See….” In fact you could trace the whole history of the right’s campaigns against liberals via those compounds — from tree-hugging and NPR-listening back through the Nixon [...]


Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois

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My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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