February 2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

German colleagues

Übersetzungsfehler deals with a variety of language combinations and is altogether more sober than this site. As is frequently the case on German websites, the legal notice deserves a trophy of some kind.

David Icke-like view of the relationship between pigeons and statues

Statues are designed to be bird-friendly on the orders of a mysterious avian deity, which may have held sway over Luis Buñuel.

Spanish woman academic dresses according to stereotype

From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.

Geologically-based racial theory of Spain

A cloud of fruit flies have crawled in through Miquel Coll i Alentorn’s ear and devoured his brain.

Saddam and Gomorrah

Being Kalebeul’s contribution to rebranding the Spanish nation.

Bermejo for president!

Well-armed, well-trained, mentally unstable friends are precisely what we are going to need in the coming devastation.

More registered than apparent actual unemployed in Spain

Are Spanish unemployment statistics the result of fraud or incompetence?

Fat kids moved to ground floor of Andalusian school to stop it falling down

Spring is (almost) here, so it’s time to take a stroll and inspect councils’ stalled works programmes.

A ministry that doesn’t know what it’s called

El Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración is struggling with Catalan, but not quite enough. All this doesn’t matter, of course, because the Germans and French will save us.

Eternal values and the notary

RMF over at Fum i estalzi quotes Josep Pla (“Notaries live in central locations and tend to occupy spacious apartments with very high ceilings”) and links to a business listings map of Barcelona notaries. I suppose if you hacked the streetview feature you could check out the high ceilings bit.