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Catalunya already independent

Posted: December 13th 2009 13:25. Last modified: December 13th 2009 14:06

Wait, let me check that.

What’s so hard about answering an email?

Posted: November 16th 2009 12:53. Last modified: November 16th 2009 13:15

–Hello.
–Hello, is that the Department of Tourism? Yes? Hello, a week ago I sent you an email asking if this Friday you could let me and a group in to see the crypt of blah blah blah, and I was wondering whether this would still be possible.
–Oh yes, I read the email.
–So?
–Yes, that should be [...]

Discovered: Cataloonia’s true fet diferencial

Posted: October 27th 2009 15:45. Last modified: November 18th 2009 16:14

It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.

Montilla at LSE

Posted: October 24th 2009 10:53. Last modified: October 24th 2009 11:55

The British establishment doesn’t give a rat’s arse what he thinks.

Europe as a lost Rooseveltian propaganda colony

Posted: October 10th 2009 11:40. Last modified: October 27th 2009 22:12

It does have its advantages. Ants are not one of them.

The Italians have the all best games

Posted: September 22nd 2009 12:15. Last modified: September 22nd 2009 12:18

(Even if they can’t make a decent paella.)

Referendums on independence are for pussies

Posted: September 8th 2009 12:40. Last modified: September 8th 2009 15:20

Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.

Madrid Olympic bid scuppered by constitutional chaos?

Posted: September 2nd 2009 20:01.

Is Spain a federal state? Is Arenys de Munt the new Andorra? Can I pay taxes to anyone I want?

Reus football supporters club exalts British fascism

Posted: January 1st 2009 17:14. Last modified: September 29th 2009 15:00

The logo of Front Reusenc is borrowed from the British neo-Nazi party, the National Front.

Catalan rustbelt

Posted: January 21st 2005 19:26. Last modified: November 12th 2009 16:30

A Spanish girl and a West African man get off the train from Barcelona and start walking together along the long trackside drag into town, deep in conversation. Suddenly she starts, and crosses the road, and they pass in silence the three old men sitting on a mound on a vacant lot. At the bridge [...]

Cock and bull

Posted: February 5th 2004 18:04. Last modified: May 31st 2009 09:15

I just don’t get it. While one bunch of nutters has finally managed to destroy Catalunya’s last Osborne bull for being too Spanish, another bunch of crazies is going round putting up things that look pretty damn Gallic to me:

OK, now here’s a challenge: discuss this solely with reference to the aesthetic merits of the [...]

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Barcelona

  • March 18 1376 

    Tempestad marina en las costas de Barcelona, donde se hunde un barco procedente de Génova y fallecen 60 personas.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 18 de març de 1918 Aquest matĂ­, al safareig del jardĂ­, he vist la primera oreneta de l’any. L’ocell era al cantell de pedra del dipòsit, molt a la vora de l’aigua, i tractava, amb grans dificultats, de beure’n una gota. A la tarda, en passar per davant de l’esglĂ©sia, les orenetes xisclaven volant, descrivint circumferències molt amples, al voltant del [...]
  • 18 de març de 1919 Nit. Em quedo sol a la cambra de la dispesa. VigĂ­lia del meu sant. Recordo que molts anys enrera, a Palafrugell, en tal nit com aquesta, passaven colles d’homes per les cases que cantaven els goigs. «Sed, JosĂ©, nuestro abogado – en esta vida mortal» –deien. Perfectament. Hom els donava mitja dotzena d’ous i se’ls havia [...]

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