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?)

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.

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.

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.

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 CatalĂ  and self-described communist [...]

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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, Ă©sser professor–, em sembla una mica estranya. ÂżAcabarĂ© de professor d’alguna cosa, a Canet de Mar, a PuigcerdĂ  o a Valls? Però Climent insisteix i això m’intranquil·litza una mica. Què [...]

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