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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Of the obelisk</title>
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		<title>Brilliant gypsy grave in Montjuïc cemetery</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/09/brilliant-gypsy-grave-in-montjuic-cemetery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Of the obelisk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montjuïc cemetery publishes a little map which, interested in historical renown, guides you past the generally terribly tedious tombs of well-known Barcelona citizens (good, bad, ugly) and thus omits the quite extraordinary artistic achievements of some of its less well-documented residents. Here is one of the finest funeral monuments, built by people who have clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Eduardo Chillida and Barcelona council should be exchanging lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/25/why-eduardo-chillida-and-barcelona-council-should-be-exchanging-lawsuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Brief for Barcelona council

Eduardo Chillida sold us a "sculpture" called In praise of water/Elogi de l'aigua/Elogio del agua. In fact it is clearly nothing of the kind. It is a poorly-built orange-peel hydraulic grab, of the type used in quarrying. That explains why he had it put in the old quarry at Creueta del Coll. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Into the smog</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/15/into-the-smog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It hasn't rained very much in Barcelona for quite a long time. You can see the filth awaiting this Renfe train as it passes the Fecsa power station heading south over the Besós.
 

See also:New walking route

The smog is back

Pause + Antonio Fuentes anecdote

The metro to Nou Barris

The mugger mugged
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		<title>Taken by death</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/01/07/taken-by-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[God, the angels and the orders of the faithful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous "Kiss of death / Petó de la mort" memorial sculpture in Poble Nou cemetery, photo by the excellent izarbeltza, regularly visited on this Barcelona walk:
 


A more earthy interpretation, from a Chinese shop, also in Barcelona:
 

See also:New piano shopping Calvary

St George and the pigeon

Triskaidekaphobia

waiting room

José Tomás vs Manolete
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		<title>Sagrada Familia mural</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/07/sagrada-familia-mural/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/07/sagrada-familia-mural/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposite the district offices in the Gardens of the Prince of Gerona on Lepanto. Far better than the real thing, which is only fun to visit if you pretend to be a stone mason.
 

See also:Scorpiano

Corporate naming help needed

La Clota

Should beginners learn colloquialisms?

Spring is here
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		<title>Long shot of new scrapers on Barcelona&#8217;s northern shore</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/04/long-shot-of-new-scrapers-on-barcelonas-northern-shore/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/04/long-shot-of-new-scrapers-on-barcelonas-northern-shore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taken towards the end of this walk, it demonstrates some of the impact of the speculative development programmed by Barcelona's eco-warrior council over the past five years.
 

If I could do rather more advanced wheelies on my Batavus Tripper I would post aerial shots of the dramatic shifts in the shoreline as a consequence of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serbs barter cows for penises</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/31/serbs-barter-cows-for-penises/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/31/serbs-barter-cows-for-penises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flocks and work animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had lunch with a Huescan entrepreneur who sold his dad's cows in the 50s to buy a car, but this is ridiculous.

[
Update: D confirms that Srecko Djordjevic is not an anagram of for example "jive jerks cod cord" and points out that he has form:

	A man chopped his own penis off with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statues</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/26/statues/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/26/statues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[(Pre-)Roman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would those who say that we should hang on to a few Francos because it was how things were, weren't it, say the same of images of Marx? I'm something a fan of the Roman custom of leaving statue torsos intact and swapping heads as each dictator came and went.See also:Bolívar on democracy

Evan more Abramovich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Original for Agbar tower design?</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/02/20/original-for-agbar-tower-design/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/02/20/original-for-agbar-tower-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out these Russian scrapers. (Via BB; more Agbar here.)See also:Gherkins

Sperm!

Left/right

Titwank

the economics of c => k and the like
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		<title>Nazón de Breogán</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/22/nazon-de-breogan/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/22/nazon-de-breogan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the ruling Galician national socialists want to redefine the region in their statute of autonomy as the "nation of Breogan" (their leader says their identity is in their genes), does that mean that, like their mythical hero, they're going to spend all their money building a great big tower and then take the whole [...]]]></description>
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