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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.

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.

Extremadura government to pay for wanking workshops

Posted: November 10th 2009 16:48. Last modified: November 10th 2009 16:56

We’re in for a long recession: if the Extremadura PSOE says that pleasure is in your hands (via PD), then presumably they know that Spaniards aren’t going to be able to afford prostitutes for the foreseeable future. There’s been the predictable outcry from Catalan nationalists who believe they are subsidising Extremaduran tosspots and other spendthrift [...]

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.

Miraculous almond tree cures eczema

Posted: May 1st 2009 09:06. Last modified: May 1st 2009 09:07

And it’s free.

Mole models in Cervantes

Posted: April 9th 2009 17:43. Last modified: August 31st 2009 10:23

From saviour to saved to savoury: the de-/remystification of bodily imperfection.

Go forth and multiply

Posted: April 2nd 2009 16:15. Last modified: April 2nd 2009 16:16

Witness accounts from the records of the Spanish Inquisition in CĂłrdoba.

Semen shortage on MontjuĂŻc, Barcelona

Posted: March 21st 2009 08:44.

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

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Barcelona

  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la BocarĂ­a en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. JosĂ©.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 19 de març de 1918 lectures, famĂ­lia
  • 19 de març de 1919 La meva germana Rosa m’escriu dient que han arribat les orenetes. Ara, al mas –penso– la simfonia primaveral deu Ă©sser completa: les granotes, els grills, el mussol que cova al teulat, a redĂłs de la xemeneia, el cucut, el xisclar voleiadĂ­s de les orenetes…

Catholic hagiography

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