The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

A Sicilian says it ain’t.

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

Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Link love for 01/06/2009.

Mid-20th century Ibero-American hits, state-controlled media, the personal and the public.

At Giseno, Lago di Como.

Is Silvio a cyborg?

I kind of thought there’d be some Italian. How disappointing, but still good for killing baby rabbits to. This is an excellent resource, even if they seem to have some vague something against George W.

I know a quite considerable number of clever, balanced Italians, and I also believe that there are millions more out there. Tragically none of them seem to show the slightest inclination to get involved in their country’s political process, which is left to people like Berlusconi, who, while not a new class of José Antonios [...]