I was sweating my way past a garrigue-hidden house this afternoon when, to my not inconsiderable surprise, a woman leant out of an upstairs window, let fall her dress, and suggested I come in for something cool, viz a beer accompanied by a home-made tortilla de patatas, a game of billiards and a session in…
Even phenomenally successful paranoid loons like Mr Moore–having his sheikh and eating it–fail to achieve their market potential because of the sheer diversity of irrational fear clamouring for comfort. Enter Fabio Rinaldi: Les Gnomes de Zurich contrôlent les Moonistes qui contrôlent le KGB qui contrôle les Boys Scouts et les Punk Rockers tandis que le…
The bad news is that the UK is about to become a net importer of hydrocarbons; the good news, that we are now selling services to fascist regimes in Central Asia as well as colonising the lexicons of Middle Eastern analysts who, it seems, have stopped measuring oil supplies in barrels: The impact of the…
Everyone’s falling for the salute this morning. Seems Naomi Klein’s a Kerrycrat (although she still prefers Messrs Arafat, Chavez & Hussein, you know the kind of stuff), and even the Spanish are getting in on the act … slowly. Here‘s Catalan economics councillor Antoni Castells working that old mirror magic: Photos: Vanguardia
Brian in London is photographing the Billion Monkeys. My strategy is not as chic but does suppose some material benefits: I have spent recent years in The Hague, Cambridge, the City and now Barcelona attempting to get included in Japanese tourist photos–preferably in an attitude implying some intimacy–so that when I go to Kyoto everyone…
Discreet enquiries suggest that Chuck D is out of the office and being a Public Enemy on a beach somewhere until September, so we’re going to have to sort this one two three four out ourselves. I completely agree with Eric Bakovic and Mark Liberman that the big problem facing the phrase “Ain’t how that…
Re this post by Eric Bakovic, I reckon that when Chuck D of Public Enemy sings Ain’t how that God planned it? he is using “how that” where standard English speakers would use “how”, and that the pronoun “that” is assumed in the “ain’t” or what precedes it. The “how that”/”how” swap turns up in…
I thought this was rather special, especially when you consider all the one-note-samba rubbish still floating around: an early C20th recording (MP3) by El Canario Chico which concentrates a maximum of micro-variation within a minimal compass. More here on the Centro Andaluz de Flamenco site. A prior engagement with a tarantula means I’m not going…
I’m terribly sorry: I meant conservative in the sense of a nostalgia for things just past, which does, I think, make Habermas and Derrida conservatives. Mark Liberman, on the other hand, is nostalgic for times long past, for the Enlightenment–buckled shoes, open drains, and, quite possibly, beating well-loved columnists with clubs–which makes him not so…
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