Restores the power of speech to stricken Andalusians.

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.

Is it a personal hiperandalucismo, or is there somewhere in Málaga where everyone speaks like this?

Bizarrely honest or honestly bizarre?

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.

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

Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.

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

OCB’s Black Thinking brand launches a startling new ambient campaign.

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

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

Du Guesclin expresses his doubts re this and other project objectives.

A fragment from the story of how Andalusia got where it wouldn’t necessarily want to be, given a modicum of thought.

Spring is (almost) here, so it’s time to take a stroll and inspect councils’ stalled works programmes.

Twenty-nine actually, he forgot a grand. And then there’s thirty more on completion. The mayor of Ohanes’ analysis of the electoral politics of corruption is hilarious:

Of course, this isn’t real corruption like the conservative PP’s. Nice detail: the telly stays on, not to kill hidden mikes, but for reasons of social etiquette.

I’m just curious: did PSOE secretary general José Blanco know this disgraceful amendment to coastal protection legislation was going to be introduced when he purchased an illegal apartment on a Galician beach, or is this all about saving Andalusia’s socialist president for life Manuel Chaves’ illegal and still undemolished beach hotel?

Linguistic evidence for Japanese domination, with several field reports of a more general nature.

Check out this excellent piece by Lenox Napier on how discrimination against northern Europeans and smug institutional corruption will surely lead to a gloomy future for one of Western Europe’s poorest regions.

Check out the excellent Justin’s review over at Catavino, which I can second, having got moderately wasted there on a cycle trip. (I don’t link much to Catavino because I have a basic distrust of wine reviews: if you liked it that much, how come you can remember anything about it?)