Would Gregor Samsa v2 have been a viable life form?

El País claims today in a piece on Barcelona council’s attempts to use public money to drive private bike rental operators out of business that biologists say that insects survive because they are small, and that if they were to grow to the size of a cow they would suffocate. Would the new, updated Gregor…

Don’t shoot that hare

El Niño de Tetuán singing fandangos (MP3s or him and a superb selection of others). We’re probably talking early 1930s, but I don’t know where–Seville or Jerez seems more likely than Tetuan :-): A esa liebre no tirarle cazaores de la sierra a esa liebra no tirarle porque está haciendo en la tierra madriguera pa…