Day archive for July 3rd, 2007

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Queers and gypsies

Posted: July 3rd 2007 21:21. Last modified: October 2nd 2009 18:15

April 1939, and the Valencian communist and later Mexican entrepreneur Arturo GarcĂ­a Igual (Entre aquella España nuestra … y la peregrina, available in part on GBS) has, as a Stalinist commissar, been sent to the elite camp at Agde, France, where
night after night unsuspected talents [took to] an improvised stage: actors, comics, illusionists and cantaores [...]

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Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Music

Regional variation in DYI Andalusian alcopops, and the origins and etymology of kalimotxo or calimocho or whatever

Posted: July 3rd 2007 13:33. Last modified: July 3rd 2007 13:43

A rebujito is a dry sherry (manzanilla, fino) or occasionally a white wine to which fizz (lemonades, …) has been added, typically in a ratio of 1:2, in order to give you a head-start on the alcohol. This is the lite version of whichever British drink it is that has you knock back a third [...]

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Categories: Drink, Languages, Les bourgeois

Queer buccaneer theory

Posted: July 3rd 2007 10:14.

Will this lead to revision of the etymology of filibuster?


Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Splog, The sea

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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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