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Consum vs Conssum

Posted: December 10th 2009 18:55. Last modified: December 10th 2009 19:11

Trademark theft to liven up the Spanish fruit and veg price-war?

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Monsters, The law court, Vegetables, War

Terminal Germinal

Posted: April 13th 2009 11:49.

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

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Categories: Birds, Buildings, Cities, Cultivation of the fields, Fields, landmarks, land measures, Les bourgeois, Mountains, Rivers, Vegetables, Vehicles

“What is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north”

Posted: November 23rd 2008 20:02. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 20:27

JD had a bit more Time than I did and kindly sent me an article from 1930 which turns the tables on the filthy Swedes discussed this morning. It seems that towards the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship the Spanish postal service issued a stamp of Goya’s unshaven maja desnuda. Time writes:
The stamps (29,800) [...]

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Categories: Liberals & locals, Man and his parts, Theatre, Vegetables

I am burning with desire to teach the Spaniards how Nordic women can love

Posted: November 23rd 2008 11:05. Last modified: November 23rd 2008 12:48

“This incendiary message was broadcast from Berlin to hot-blooded Spain by dazzling, blonde Brita Brager. It had a coldblooded purpose: to persuade Spaniards that signing up for work in German munitions plants would be a short cut to a life of opulent lechery.” According to this Time story from 1943, Ms Brager was the 23-year-old [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, The family, Theatre, Vegetables

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  • 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 país tenim un costum molt curiós. 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 és més important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastíssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat és superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici és monòton i pesat, però té moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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