Day archive for November 12th, 2006

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Killing me softly

Posted: November 12th 2006 19:23.

Planet Churro has a post about the preference of the local health service for Catalan literati over highly qualified nurses. Hey, but at least they won’t have to subtitle the why-is-everything-so-fucked fly-on-the-wall documentary.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Bowman Ales live

Posted: November 12th 2006 19:01.

Loopy and Ray used to be charcoal burners. There’s no really good way of drinking charcoal, so fortunately for us they gave it up.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Provisions and utensils of the household and the fields, Splog

Was Adam Catalan?

Posted: November 12th 2006 18:58. Last modified: November 12th 2006 19:25

Following Mad Mas’ exposition, at the invented tomb of invented Wilf the Hairy, of Catalanista scientific doctrine–Article 1: Just because something is false doesn’t mean it ain’t true–, Luis Alfonso Gámez picks up on an important story which the nutters have somehow missed. (Thanks to Carlos Ferrero)


Categories: (Pre-)Roman, God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois, Splog

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Spanish history

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Barcelona

  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la BocarĂ­a en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. JosĂ©.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 19 de març de 1918 lectures, famĂ­lia
  • 19 de març de 1919 La meva germana Rosa m’escriu dient que han arribat les orenetes. Ara, al mas –penso– la simfonia primaveral deu Ă©sser completa: les granotes, els grills, el mussol que cova al teulat, a redĂłs de la xemeneia, el cucut, el xisclar voleiadĂ­s de les orenetes…

Catholic hagiography

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