Monkey anis

Mona: (I once met a Tangier man who claimed to own a Barbary ape called Lisa, but let’s not go there, or here either.) Copywriters have moved on since Darwin was alleged to have said, “It’s the best, science says so and I’m not lying”: I use the sweet version of Anis del Mono in…

Into the smog

It hasn’t rained very much in Barcelona for quite a long time. You can see the filth awaiting this Renfe train as it passes the Fecsa power station heading south over the Besós.

Consonantal heavy metal umlaut

Found whilst burning a pile of flyers. Maybe Soulside will tell us if this was a conscious tribute to the rock-dotted “n” in “This is Spinal Tap”.

Of love, eternity, and Ilkley Moor

From Manuel Fraga’s dreadful Nuevos diálogos, found yesterday on the street (it’s becoming a habit): An old French song reminds us that “the pleasure of love only lasts a moment, while the sorrow of love lasts for ever.” A pragmatic English take, probably also old: What’s the difference between love and herpes? Herpes is for…

Arty-farty soft porn

Blurb for show we went to by mistake yesterday at L’Antic Teatre: The creation of the spectacle “Madamas Butterflys” takes as a point of item the Puccini’s opera, but not to recreate it but to penetrate into the behaviors that they lead to a spiritual death and its posterior renaissance. ” Madamas Butterflys ” it…

Cats

In a ruined house on one of the variants of this walk.

PP video denouncing persecution of Spanish in Catalan schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0vtl3O8EA So does this mean they’ve ruled out coalitions with the “moderate” nationalists after the elections? Or are they convinced they’re going to lose/get an absolute majority, so it doesn’t matter anyway? Or is it just Sirera farting around?

Taken by death

The famous “Kiss of death / Petó de la mort” memorial sculpture in Poble Nou cemetery, photo by the excellent izarbeltza, regularly visited on this Barcelona walk: A more earthy interpretation, from a Chinese shop, also in Barcelona: