Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Posted: March 6th 2010 11:12. Last modified: March 6th 2010 11:36
Why less democracy is better for Europe
Posted: March 3rd 2010 11:50. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 11:53
Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.
The storks of war
Posted: January 30th 2010 00:05. Last modified: January 30th 2010 00:07
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Decadent graffiti art at nursery entrance in Carmelo, Barcelona
Posted: January 18th 2010 15:36. Last modified: January 18th 2010 15:45
The artist speaks.
Pig / lion / monkey / child wine
Posted: January 16th 2010 22:41. Last modified: January 18th 2010 10:29
A Portuguese menagerie of sozzledness.
Nice work if you can eat it
Posted: January 14th 2010 11:03.
Influence of fat content on palatability of roast beef.
Font de Mora, right about small screens causing myopia in children?
Posted: December 15th 2009 22:59. Last modified: December 15th 2009 23:05
Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.
A West Cornish Barbary pirate and ghost-ship
Posted: December 9th 2009 14:00. Last modified: December 23rd 2009 01:17
“Discontented devil of a blackamoor, why canst thou not be satisfied to live here?” “Avast there; all our gold and diamonds can’t procure us here the bright sunshine and joyous people, nor the rich fruits and wine, of my native clime.”
Fish update
Posted: November 20th 2009 22:49.
Escolar is “a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.” But that has nothing to do with Spanish bloggers.
What’s so hard about answering an email?
Posted: November 16th 2009 12:53. Last modified: November 16th 2009 13:15
–Hello.
–Hello, is that the Department of Tourism? Yes? Hello, a week ago I sent you an email asking if this Friday you could let me and a group in to see the crypt of blah blah blah, and I was wondering whether this would still be possible.
–Oh yes, I read the email.
–So?
–Yes, that should be [...]
Carmen de España
Posted: November 11th 2009 14:45. Last modified: November 11th 2009 20:33
A not particularly serious assault on Prosper Mérimée.
An unusual case of risus sardonicus
Posted: November 9th 2009 22:35. Last modified: November 10th 2009 11:34
Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?
Still life or road-kill?
Posted: October 20th 2009 17:21. Last modified: October 20th 2009 17:23
There’s an oddly proportioned hare in one of this autumn’s auctions in Barcelona.
Europe as a lost Rooseveltian propaganda colony
Posted: October 10th 2009 11:40. Last modified: October 27th 2009 22:12
It does have its advantages. Ants are not one of them.
The bullfighting Chinaman and his magnificent midget show
Posted: October 6th 2009 08:16. Last modified: October 6th 2009 08:22
Yet more Spanish culture for Brussels to ban.
Rhyme vs reason
Posted: October 4th 2009 18:05. Last modified: October 4th 2009 18:24
Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.
Donkijote
Posted: September 29th 2009 13:38.
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 [...]
Bites with denomination of origin
Posted: September 28th 2009 15:24. Last modified: September 28th 2009 15:26
Tracing that hot doggie.
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Posted: September 8th 2009 21:54. Last modified: September 9th 2009 10:15
Or perhaps it isn’t.
Wok jock croc shock?
Posted: September 1st 2009 08:41.
Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?
My 5% bookstore - new stuff
Spanish history
- EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€ - LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€ - CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, MÂŞ ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€
Modern Spanish fiction
- EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€ - LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€ - DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€
Spanish classics
- TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€ - LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€ - INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€
On this day
Barcelona
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
The peepul's choice
- Bloody Galicians
- Shipping news
- Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
- How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
- Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
- Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell
- Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
- The Two Gardeners
- Administrative note
- Why less democracy is better for Europe
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
- The naming of El Picazo
- What’s your ex-pat blogging style?
- The coming and going of the gypsies
- The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo
- Fiesta mayor programmes and Zapatero
- Barcelona and the great European fire sale
- Lipoplasty loaf
- Interactive electronics/dance performance
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Dogs’ bollocks
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- How regional language policy in Spain is pissing off foreign investors
- Sagrada Familia mural
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Forum auction not to include mayor Clos
