Day: September 28, 2007

Another Oreneta

Fraternal greetings to someone else who has alighted in Barcelona and started using the Oreneta tag. I’m the one on a bicycle: no boat yet.

Grisly video footage of bullfight in Riópar, Albacete province

Village bullfighting is far more exciting and beautiful than the formalised crap on offer in big rings like Barcelona’s Monumental, but if the photo above gives some idea of the upside, the downside involves stuff like dwarf bullfighters cutting fillets off animals as they race past because they’re too short to plunge the sword in…

If there is a lawsuit, both parts have to left it to Barcelona court

The Catalan (National) Library is one of the worst and most surprising offenders. Here’s part of its exhibition loan policy: Application form has to be done at least 4 months before the inauguration of the exhibition when the number of items required would be less than 20, and 6 months before if the number of…