Multiple identity

“I’m French, I feel Basque and Navarran, and people say I’ve got a Labortano mentality,” says Andrés Diharassarry Organbide, mayor and native of Urdax in Spain and ex-councillor over the border. The stress doesn’t look like it’s getting to him.

An in-law you can’t refuse

Everyone and our auntie is reporting on the popularity of the new mafia studies course in Rome. Any suggestions as to which will be the first Spanish university to offer a degree in enchufismo?

That midriff glow

Terminus Café next to Barbastro bus station is said to have closed before any of its few clients managed to implement the sign’s suggestion. Barbastro was the birthplace of the founder of Opus Dei, so it was always going to be tough.

Word hunt

Bitneriáceo is an excellent puzzle blog. This looks easy, but I’m still foxed.

Conspiracy, conspiracy

Enschede aan Zee -> French developer’s Flash CV in English and French. Why, tho, does his blog say “Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corporation”?

We’ve been wikipediad!

OK, it’s not the same as being instapunditted or slashdotted, but the link from here to here is still good for a few hits.

Sermon on the nount

More uses for a scissors than distinguished Viennese-Albertan dialect experts think.

Niceties

From the Washington Post: “Asked to respond to reports that Arafat is brain-dead, [French foreign minister Michel] Barnier replied, ‘I wouldn’t say that.'”