Day archive for April 30th, 2008

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For Ronaldo

Posted: April 30th 2008 19:27.

NĂŁo Ă© desgraça ser pobre, there ain’t no shame in being poor, and sometimes it’s better only being able to afford one tranny hooker.

By Amália Rodrigues, who I only discovered the other day.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Music, Splog

Where FollowTheBaldie.com won’t take you

Posted: April 30th 2008 19:14. Last modified: April 30th 2008 19:16

“Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.” (H/t to the DG)

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Categories: Splog

Der Engel

Posted: April 30th 2008 14:54.

When I saw this first I briefly thought it was MontjuĂŻc viewed from Maians Island, where Quixote first saw the sea. But the sun sets west, not south, and those are mountains in the background, not clouds. So it must be Italy, somewhere. Here’s the text.


Categories: Liberals & locals, Music, Splog

Berlusconi and the new (Roman) falange

Posted: April 30th 2008 14:26. Last modified: April 30th 2008 14:41

Mr Clarke blogging at It’s Probably The Pox, My Son links to a typical bit of mendacity, or gross ignorance if you are feeling charitable, from John Hooper at the Guardian:
Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed the latest evidence of Italy’s leap to the right by declaring: “We are the [...]


Categories: (Pre-)Roman, Languages, Les bourgeois, Theatre, War

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My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 12 1461 

    Arrival of Prince Charles/Carlos/Carles of Viana, who the Catalans want to swear as heir to the throne, in spite of King John II.

  • March 12 1709 

    Yesterday’s Dutch post advises, from Genoa, that the duke de Telesa’s secretary was lately hanged and quartered at Barcelona,
    for corresponding with the duke of Orleans, who gave him a daily pension of 25 pistolls.

    That general Stanhope was sail’d from Barcelona, wi...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 12 de març de 1919 DesprĂ©s d’aquests cinc anys passats a la Universitat, em sembla que el que hom sol dir-ne rutinĂ riament: que s’hi perd el temps i que en sortir-ne Ă©s quan s’ha de començar de treballar i sobretot quan s’ha d’oblidar el que s’hi ha après, Ă©s absolutament secundari. Al meu entendre, el pitjor efecte de l’establiment Ă©s la [...]

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