Tag archive for GrĂ cia (RSS)

Freaky assault on Gracia pseudo-anarchist stronghold

Posted: April 21st 2009 13:36. Last modified: April 21st 2009 13:38

Joan TxĂ pal strikes at the heart of dorkness.

Spiderman thief at work in Barcelona

Posted: April 10th 2009 12:05. Last modified: April 10th 2009 12:43

Sensational video from Gracia district.

Saluton!

Posted: February 27th 2009 14:34. Last modified: February 27th 2009 14:35

Don’t take shit from phoney idealists.

Calling all Barcelona-based Ukrainian anarcho-communists

Posted: January 20th 2009 08:16. Last modified: April 21st 2009 13:01

Local “anarchists” showing Nestor Makhno, paysan d’Ukraine this Friday.

Nunca digas nunca Hamas

Posted: January 11th 2009 20:51. Last modified: April 13th 2009 22:11

A pun on Never say never again on Gracia’s only SWP bodega (one of the proprietors claims to have known Yigael Gluckstein) may be suggesting that may be no imminent solution to the problem of bearded nutters rocketing their neighbours and then moaning about the response.
In other graffiti today, the anarchist nutters in the lovely [...]

Flyposting his way out of the recession

Posted: December 5th 2008 15:38. Last modified: April 21st 2009 13:08

Neocon ex-blogger Joan TxĂ pal is apparently befouling the walls of his neighbourhood in imitation of the squatter scum he so claimed to loathe. The cops should crack down (pepper spray, taser, TV3) without delay on this illegitimate privatisation of public space. (Photo: JD. Next up: smoking his way out of the recession)

Mapfumo on the rocks

Posted: June 1st 2005 15:41. Last modified: December 20th 2009 16:17

Global warming is a reality in Gracia, where the guy at Bar Musical Zimbabwe has included a sun setting behind a desert island (I always thought Zimbabwe was land-locked) on his storefront sign. Despite claims to the contrary, Zimbabwean “traditional” music styles are just as un-proto-democratic as is the Ampurdan dance, the sardana. However, like [...]

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  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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