Tag archive for Raval (RSS)

The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain

Posted: February 19th 2010 01:08. Last modified: February 19th 2010 22:11

With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)

Tags: Baal, Barcelona, black legend, crisis, Elijah, Germany, Greece, Luther, Mendelssohn, Merkel, prophet, Raval, Reformation, sovereign debt default, Spain, translation, trussed, trust
Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Heathen gods, Heresy, Les bourgeois, Music, The Church and the synagogue, The law court

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Posted: June 5th 2009 13:21. Last modified: June 6th 2009 21:43

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Tags: Andalusian, Barcelona, Berlusconi, Beryl Cook, Botero, construction, corruption, Daniel Hannan, Emma Bonino, energy, ERC, Hitler, Italy, Joaquím Nadal, lexicography, Manuel Trallero, Oriol Junqueras, PSC, Raval, renewables, Spain, Spanish, translation, walking
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Languages, Les bourgeois

Hand-made corporate logos

Posted: May 12th 2009 20:55.

If phone companies don’t provide window stickers, Pakistani shopkeepers may have a go themselves.

Tags: Amena, Barcelona, markets, Movistar, Pakistanis, Raval, Vodafone, walking
Categories: Cities, Cooking utensils, Les bourgeois, Other utensils

Does anyone actually use the CCCB website?

Posted: February 7th 2009 10:02. Last modified: February 7th 2009 19:55

They can’t spell the name of their main exhibition. Plus: Raval teachers.

Tags: art, Barcelona, CCCB, Marcel·lí Antúnez, Raval
Categories: Les bourgeois

Some more sun goddesses

Posted: January 16th 2008 14:48. Last modified: May 12th 2009 19:02

The other day I did a libertarian Raval tour with a particularly dangerous Californian sociologist, and we got onto Orwell’s apparent incapacity to see the most recent civil war as anything but a class conflict betrayed. This despite ethnic-based stuff like the vicious mini-civil war between Catalan fascists associated with Estat Català and self-described communist [...]

Tags: Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Girona, gypsy, Montanchuelos, Montserrat, Orwell, picture, Raval, Santa Anna, Spain, walking
Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois

My 5% bookstore - new stuff

Spanish history

EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€
LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€
CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€

Modern Spanish fiction

EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€
LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€
DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€

Spanish classics

TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€
LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€
INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€

On this day

Barcelona

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

13 de març de 1919 La Mancomunitat ha creat uns «Estudis Normals» i Joan Climent m’incita a inscriure-m’hi. Els cursos es donaran a l’Escola Industrial. La cosa, en realitat –ésser mestre, ésser professor–, em sembla una mica estranya. ¿Acabaré de professor d’alguna cosa, a Canet de Mar, a Puigcerdà o a Valls? Però Climent insisteix i això m’intranquil·litza una mica. Què [...]