Category archive for Languages, mankind, empires, the family (RSS)

More than a bar

Posted: June 30th 2009 18:32. Last modified: June 30th 2009 18:50

Advertising on the cheap, and the joys of squatting.

Tags: advertising, Barça, Barcelona, Como, Horta, més que un club, squatters, Virgil, walking
Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois

Spidy Wasch

Posted: June 29th 2009 11:45. Last modified: June 30th 2009 18:48

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Tags: cars, cartoons, Como, German, italian, Italy, Mexico, mice, Speedy Gonzales, Volkswagen
Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Small creatures, Theatre, Vehicles

Monkey hangers in 17th century Barcelona

Posted: June 7th 2009 20:45. Last modified: June 8th 2009 11:40

Xenophobic atavism in the 1640 Reapers Revolt.

Tags: 1640, Barcelona, barretinas, Boddam, Catalonia, Corpus Christi, Corpus de Sang, France, Francisco Manuel de Mello, George Borrow, Guerra dels Segadors, Hapsburgs, hartlepool, Monkey Hangers, monkeys, Montjuïc, nationalism, Peterhead, Quixote, Santa Coloma, Scotland, Spain, translation, War of the Reapers
Categories: Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, Monsters, War

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Posted: June 5th 2009 13:21. Last modified: June 6th 2009 21:43

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Tags: Andalusian, Barcelona, Berlusconi, Beryl Cook, Botero, construction, corruption, Daniel Hannan, Emma Bonino, energy, ERC, Hitler, Italy, Joaquím Nadal, lexicography, Manuel Trallero, Oriol Junqueras, PSC, Raval, renewables, Spain, Spanish, translation, walking
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

Nationalism and the European elections, Berlusconi and the intra-Mediterranean risorgimento

Posted: June 1st 2009 11:37. Last modified: June 1st 2009 11:45

Link love for 01/06/2009.

Tags: 12 terrible candidates, Berlusconi, bimbos, Egypt, European parliament, Francisco Sosa Wagner, Italy, Mubarak, Mussolini, nationalism, PP, PSOE, sex, Spain, Umberto Eco, UPyD
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

Link sink for 30/05/2009

Posted: May 30th 2009 11:54. Last modified: May 30th 2009 11:55

Mid-20th century Ibero-American hits, state-controlled media, the personal and the public.

Tags: Barcelona, Berlusconi, Catalonia, Galicia, Italy, Luis Miguel, pianists, Telemadrid
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Music, The family

Link sink for 28/05/2009

Posted: May 28th 2009 09:39. Last modified: May 28th 2009 09:44

Drinking, driving, cursing.

Tags: Barça, Barcelona, cars, cholera, football, fountains, Henry Mayhew, las Ramblas, ManU, obscenity, Rambla de Canaletes, Vehicles, walking, water
Categories: Ball-playing, Drink, Languages, Les bourgeois, Vehicles

“Discretion Environment Elegance”

Posted: May 26th 2009 19:37. Last modified: May 26th 2009 19:40

An illegal brothel at Girona Airport.

Tags: Aeropuerto de Gerona, brothels, Club la Lluna, Club la Luna, corruption, España, Gerona, Girona, Girona Airport, hotels, planning, prostitution, puticlubs, Riudellots, Riudellots de la Selva, Spain
Categories: Buildings, Dance, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Mankind

Link sink for 25/05/2009

Posted: May 25th 2009 22:21. Last modified: May 25th 2009 22:33

Hell, no one reads my Greader feed anyway.

Tags: Barcelona, corruption, ETA
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

How many spokes should the gypsy chakra have?

Posted: May 21st 2009 23:08.

A Barcelona scrap-metal dealer only has 12 on the favicon on his website.

Tags: Barcelona, boomerangs, chakra, chakrah, discus, gypsies, India, mafia, protection rackets, Roma, Romani, Romany, Rroma, scrap metal, Vishnu
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, Monsters, War

Catalan minister of education at LSE

Posted: May 16th 2009 08:22. Last modified: May 16th 2009 08:32

Promotes law as a truth-telling device.

Tags: Catalonia, education, Ernest Maragall, language policy, translation
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

Spanish mis-translation of Paolo Giordano The solitude of prime numbers

Posted: May 15th 2009 11:46. Last modified: May 15th 2009 12:11

But where does the buck stop?

Tags: Bible, hairdressing, Paolo Giordano, semiotics, translation, universities
Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Poets

Entertaining video of prostitutes and thieves on the Rambla

Posted: May 6th 2009 08:22. Last modified: May 6th 2009 08:26

By Ramon Vila & Marta Cuatrecasas

Tags: Barcelona, Catalan, Catalonia, corruption, La Rambla, Media, press, prostitution
Categories: Cities, Dance, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Roads, Spectacles

Spanish pavements

Posted: April 20th 2009 10:45. Last modified: April 20th 2009 10:56

They’re not necessarily for pedestrians.

Tags: Barcelona, cars, Roads, Spain, walking
Categories: Cities, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Vehicles

Is Spain a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?

Posted: April 17th 2009 13:39. Last modified: April 17th 2009 13:41

Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.

Tags: cant, dictionaries, english, Francis Grose, John Minsheu, lexicography, slang, Spanish, translation
Categories: Decline, Empire, Languages, Les bourgeois

The war on arsematrons

Posted: April 14th 2009 09:31. Last modified: April 14th 2009 10:17

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

Tags: arsematron, cycling, etymology, France, Lance Armstrong, Louis Armstrong
Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Music, Vehicles

PP twice as corrupt as PSOE?

Posted: April 8th 2009 20:03.

If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.

Tags: Andalusia, construction, corruption, Manuel Chaves, PP, PSOE, Spain
Categories: Arithmetic, Buildings, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

Free tapas map of Andalusia

Posted: April 8th 2009 18:18.

Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.

Tags: Andalusia, bars, cartography, dialects, tapas
Categories: Drink, Food, Languages, Les bourgeois

Drunk and disorderly

Posted: April 6th 2009 17:02. Last modified: April 7th 2009 19:40

A British soldier’s hazy recollections of civil war in Portugal.

Tags: Flashman, Napoleon, Oporto, Oporto Rising, Peninsula War, Porto, Portugal, Rifleman Harris, Spain, Thomas Knight, translation, Waterloo, Wellington
Categories: Drink, Empires, rulers and warfare, Food, Liberals & locals, War

The fundamental difference between Mussolini and Berlusconi

Posted: April 3rd 2009 12:09. Last modified: April 3rd 2009 12:12

Is Silvio a cyborg?

Tags: Berlusconi, Eco, Italy, Lady Di, Lorca, Mussolini, politics
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

On this day

Barcelona

July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
July 5 1844
I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...
July 5 1848
En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos...
July 5 1899
SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.
July 5 1909
MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.

Palafrugell and thereabouts

Sorry, nothing doing today.

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