A Sicilian says it ain’t.

Can someone work out from this steaming pool of verbal diarrhea if they’re loading the donkey down with GPS recorders etc and then letting it go wherever it wants? Now that would be really interesting. Er, not, actually. [Whatever happened to Deirdre (?) and the donkey and cart with which she made her way from [...]

Tracing that hot doggie.

(Even if they can’t make a decent paella.)

It’s all a question of taste and budget in Gaudy’s famous Parky Gay, just up the road from the Sangria Familia.

Do Spanish speakers get more excited about “defective” accents than English speakers?

Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.

Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.

Or, the (Parisian) Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (via). Recalls SHIT (photos), the Servicio de Hosteleria Industrial de Terrassa, which sells big saucepans. Should organisations aim for stupid/obscene acronyms on the basis that all shit is good shit?

Or perhaps it isn’t.

Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

A drunk-sounding Peacock Band playing accordions, bones, and mouth organs in a pub in Chelsworth, Suffolk the early 1970s.

Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.

Is Spain a federal state? Is Arenys de Munt the new Andorra? Can I pay taxes to anyone I want?

40+ years of feminism, and this is the best the Huffington Post and People.com can come up with.

Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?