In which I proffer my experience in the service of the East European mafia as a model for helping us help the Aricept generation.
Stay in a hotel whose previous owners were beaten to death and buried in the garden
Posted: March 17th 2010 16:47.
This is surely where this took place, and this must have been one of the last guests pre-mortem. I liked the unconsciously gruesome comments on TripAdvisor about the chilly welcome and subsidence on the tennis court, and a couple of the photos are thoroughly spooky.
Otra Liga es posible
Posted: March 12th 2010 13:21. Last modified: March 12th 2010 13:28
An Iberian proposal would slash wage costs, free up time and talent for cashflow-friendly shagshow opportunities, and assimilate football to mainstream Peninsular cultural practice.
Photos and video of snowstorm in Park GĂĽell
Posted: March 8th 2010 20:00. Last modified: March 8th 2010 20:08
Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.
Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless
Posted: March 7th 2010 18:35. Last modified: March 9th 2010 14:34
Restores the power of speech to stricken Andalusians.
Administrative note
Posted: March 6th 2010 11:26. Last modified: March 6th 2010 11:28
I’m going to shift all the crap on this server to a new host tomorrow evening–cheaper, I believe more reliable, and it’s in the States so I can say whatever I want. One query: I have vague memories from when I left the disastrous WebFusion/Host Europe setup a couple of years ago that WordPress times-out [...]
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
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.
Tour guide learns routes from Google Streetview
Posted: March 3rd 2010 17:20. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 17:25
Here’s a cheeky hybrid of actual and virtual tourism: the guide hasn’t been to all of the places advertised here at 100€ per person per day, and he hasn’t visited some for a decade, so instead of conducting costly research he learns them from Google Streetview. Which, for all I know, may work perfectly well [...]
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.
Kalebeul’s 5% bookstore
Posted: March 2nd 2010 13:15. Last modified: March 2nd 2010 13:16
Yet another scheme to get poor slowly.
Bloody Galicians
Posted: February 26th 2010 09:27. Last modified: February 26th 2010 09:48
But what was Rosa DĂez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?
Binding referendum on the future of Catalonia, hosted by Kalebeul
Posted: February 24th 2010 08:38.
In response to confusion in the markets re Spain’s constitutional arrangements and the size and distribution of its public debt, kaleBirthday has, remarkably, gained the consent of the Catalan, Spanish and EU administrations to conduct a binding poll on the future of the troubled region. Vote now or forever hold your peace.
Shipping news
Posted: February 20th 2010 00:30. Last modified: February 20th 2010 11:20
Public auctions of wrecks in Barcelona, Pontevedra and Algeciras, with thoughts on how to reduce blogging competition.
The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
Posted: February 19th 2010 01:08. Last modified: February 19th 2010 22:11
With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)
Blogger closed down my favourite copyright violation site!
Posted: February 14th 2010 13:36. Last modified: March 3rd 2010 09:59
Hasta luego Edgar LeĂłn, but what’s the real solution?
The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch
Posted: February 11th 2010 00:19. Last modified: February 11th 2010 07:40
With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.
Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!
Posted: February 10th 2010 16:48. Last modified: February 10th 2010 16:50
From this month’s Barcelona Connect:
Win a 13 Litre Jug of Margarita Cocktail at Pippermint Bar!
Probably the biggest jug of cocktail in the city, and certainly not one to be tackled without a good group of friends! Pippermint offers a delicious variety of cocktails, plus student night on Thursdays, and you can catch the big sports [...]
I’m in yer country eating yer green shoots
Posted: February 10th 2010 07:48. Last modified: February 10th 2010 08:11
It’s Pig’d over at Calculated Risk has a toothy smirk for the bailout which, for the usual reasons, we are not to call a bailout.
Mr Artificial Turf confirms our opinion that Bordeaux is astonishingly good value compared to Barcelona. And it has real waves.
Eastern Black Sea Tour, Tunisia
Posted: February 8th 2010 15:08.
TravelShop Turkey’s bus doesn’t actually take you to Istanbul or Tunis, but love those krazy keywords (and of course even Trabzon isn’t that Turkish any more anyway).
100 best lycées in France
Posted: February 2nd 2010 13:30. Last modified: February 3rd 2010 18:27
A Google Maps/Le Figaro mashup.
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
- March 22 1460 El prĂncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
- March 22 1848
En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.
Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)
- 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, Ă©s clar, haurien pogut Ă©sser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenciĂł no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat mĂ©s d’estudiar quĂmica, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocaciĂł, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]
The peepul's choice
- Bloody Galicians
- 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
- Why less democracy is better for Europe
- Administrative note
- Kalebeul, voice of the voiceless
- 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
