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“Discretion Environment Elegance”

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

An illegal brothel at Girona Airport.

Semen shortage on Montjuïc, Barcelona

Posted: March 21st 2009 08:44.

The cottaging zone is getting so popular they’re having to pipe the stuff in.

Early 20th century photographs of European gypsies

Posted: March 18th 2009 22:23.

Arthur Thesleff seems to have burnt most film further east, but there’s a nice snap of some early Andalusians.

Simple fix for Spain’s poverty crisis

Posted: March 9th 2009 15:07. Last modified: March 9th 2009 15:11

Gypsy clans living on an old dung heap north of Granada may have the answer.

Geologically-based racial theory of Spain

Posted: February 21st 2009 20:04. Last modified: February 21st 2009 20:06

A cloud of fruit flies have crawled in through Miquel Coll i Alentorn’s ear and devoured his brain.

Revealed, the difference between Jews and Anglo-Saxons

Posted: February 13th 2009 13:14. Last modified: February 13th 2009 13:15

Someone called Emily has found an original way of telling us apart.

Absurd claims in and arising from study of Iberian genetics

Posted: December 6th 2008 18:50.

It’s barrel-scraping time when the comments over at El país are smarter than the article. Check out Dienekes for a bit of common sense.

Cooked -> raw in Almería

Posted: December 5th 2008 09:43.

It would be Švankmajer-nice to think that the wide-scale conversion of Spanish country restaurants into brothels is the logical, albeit unexpected consequence of a social craze for abandoning what is feared to be cultural in favour of what is assumed to be natural. However, the replacement of cooks by pimps means that we have not [...]

Literary trifles and the world Jewish conspiracy

Posted: November 15th 2008 10:16.

“Kraus was perfectly capable of using ‘feuilletonism’ without anti-Semitic undertones.”

George Formby singing Funicula

Posted: November 10th 2008 13:15.

As well as dancing the old fandango, being a brigand on the mountains, etc. His father was a something from Barcelonia. Here. Can anyone make out the entire text? (This isn’t Funiculì funiculà.)

Pujol and the future of the race

Posted: August 24th 2004 13:26. Last modified: April 15th 2009 14:29

I just don’t get why Jordi Pujol, the big man of Catalan nationalism over the past 40 years, said that “crossbreeding” (mestissatge) with immigrants would mean the end of Catalonia.
My dad’s been shagging Mrs P for years, and the kids are doing fine.

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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