April 2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Spain, a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?

Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.

Two Brad Pitt exclusives

French farmer tells him, “Get off my land!”
Did a Pakistani Dracula turn Brad and Angelina into zombies?

The war on arsematrons

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

Terminal Germinal

The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.

Ricardo Bofill's redundant 1996 Barcelona airport control tower with southern Collserola. I believe the tower was designed redundant--too far away from the runways, the surface coating inhibiting radio traffic.

Sibelius acquired! Anyone got any Wesley Willis or Casio keyboard riff transcriptions?

Well, donated by interested Zimbabwean Maoists. I also found an old M-Audio Radium 49 which seems to do MIDI input on Vista, so now I have to decide which tunes to do first. A Wesley Willis tribute seems in order. Has anyone got transcriptions of his texts or of Casio keyboard riffs? I guess the…

Sperm!

During the building of the Agbar water company’s new giant penis office, urban legend had it that a fountain would spout from the tip. That might have prevented this.

Graffiti on Turó de la Rovira with the Agbar tower in the background.

Spiderman thief at work in Barcelona

Sensational video from Gracia district.

Mole models in Cervantes

From saviour to saved to savoury: the de-/remystification of bodily imperfection.

Mashup of Tarif and his mole, with apologies to Connie Mason. And to the mole.

PP twice as corrupt as PSOE?

If you believe crap like the stat in this post we’ll have you certified.

Free tapas map of Andalusia

Assuming RW’s liver survives the test.