Things have come to a pretty pass when lovely girls, handsome men, gorgeous costumes, melodious songs and a splendid orchestra no longer constitute suitable educational material for American students. It is easier to understand why attempts to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to Catalonia have failed. Here’s part of a review by J Donald Smith of…
Bombs and drunks galore here, but it’s still not as bad as California. Here’s Fashion Week Daily (“How L.A. fashionistas spend their summers”) on the West Coast alternative to alcoholism: Checking out the new “Feather Lift.” The secret password of this L.A. summer. Some plastic surgeons are already experimenting in the hottest new development in…
David Bell, the British Chief Inspector of Schools, said last summer that infants increasingly lacked speaking skills because of the “disrupted and dishevelled” lives some were forced to endure. So how come George W’s oracy has declined now he’s no longer a boozer? Mr Bell thinks that the answer to the problem lies in more…
The “150kg ETA bomb” on the beach at Sant Carles de la Ràpita is an obvious hoax designed by PP-puppet Zapatero to discredit ETA and Catalan nationalism. As we all know, ever since that little bloke with the moustache didn’t do a deal with the Basque neo-Nazis, the Catalan and Basque peoples have been advancing…
As noted previously, large, yellow, rounded-cylindrical marker buoys are found bobbing just off the coast here. I call them Homers, but have only just found out why. Ezra Pound’s Canto II includes the lines: And poor old Homer blind, blind, as a bat,Ear, ear for the sea-surge, It seems that Homer liked going to the…
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