June 2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

More than a bar

Advertising on the cheap, and the joys of squatting.

Spidy Wasch

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

CROWDED BY APPEARANCE OF IT DENOUNCES

Lenox has scanned the Guardia Civil’s English translation of a crime report form. I particularly liked the confusion of first person singular verb forms and masculine nouns. So objeto -> “I object” instead of “object”.

Wellington vs Glasgow Rangers’ International Brigadiers, and the origins of “No pasarán” and “No surrender”

Nominations for the noblest British fighter in a Spanish war, and speculative revisions of the history of two idiot idioms.

The coming and going of the gypsies

Yo, el vaquilla, quinqui cinema, and the usual political whining.

Pingu and the Barrel Organ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tClY79wSr_0

Monkey hangers in 17th century Barcelona

Xenophobic atavism in the 1640 Reapers Revolt.

Elections (brothels, Nazis), corruption, Girona airport shuttle, an Andalusian lexicon

Link love for 05/06/2009.

Specs on the beach

I do hate to be beside the seaside, unless it’s raining.

Nationalism and the European elections, Berlusconi and the intra-Mediterranean risorgimento

Link love for 01/06/2009.