Day archive for September 26th, 2006

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Wittiza the Worst

Posted: September 26th 2006 22:01. Last modified: September 26th 2006 22:04

Amando de Miguel says that Zapatero is Spain’s worst ever ruler, with the possible exception of Fernando VII, Witiza and someone else. Wittiza was very naughty and nasty indeed–he “taught all Spain to sin“–and, to crown it all, he invited the Moors into Spain to help him fight Wodewic. Maybe there’s a Visigoth somewhere who’d [...]


Categories: Early Middle, Splog

Rafael Ramos again

Posted: September 26th 2006 15:39. Last modified: September 26th 2006 17:01

Someone’s passed along a story by La Vanguardia’s plagiarist-in-chief which apparently bears ridiculously strong resemblances to a Guardian story from last year. Thanks, but yawn.


Categories: Splog

Grapes

Posted: September 26th 2006 11:37. Last modified: September 26th 2006 11:42

Not much doing this year. Here, nevertheless, oneself and the local deity, with thanks to C&P. There are some good and affordable wines to be had in the Manchuela, the pocket-plain extending between the rivers Júcar and Cabriel (hence “the Manchegan Mesopotamia“, with Villatoya presumably corresponding to Baghdad) and tucked away between Cuenca and Albacete.

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  • March 11 1573 

    The deputies order a proclamation calling for the heads [this is the only interpretation I can put on dotando las cabezas, but it is non-standard] of the many bandits infesting the province. These were without doubt members of the Narros and Cadells factions of which Cervantes talks in h...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 11 de març de 1918 Avui he passat per davant de la casa del carrer Nou –o del Progrés–, on vaig néixer. La seva façana alta i freda, sinistra, bruta de les escorrialles de la pluja, no m’ha suggerit res, el poder d’evocació de les seves parets m’ha fet un efecte absolutament nul. Cap record concret –si no és el [...]
  • 11 de març de 1919 Havent dinat, trobo Alexandre Plana a la Biblioteca. M’agafa pel braç i em porta a la penya de l’Ateneu per antonomàsia, que és la coneguda també per la penya del doctor Borralleras. Baixem l’escala del primer pis, travessem la sala de premsa estrangera i entrem al local, tan baix de sostre, de la cèlebre tertúlia. Plana [...]

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