Mysterious Zaragoza nights
Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.
Month: September 2009
El gallito inglés / le coq anglais
Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.
SCAM
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Or perhaps it isn’t.
Rates
Referendums on independence are for pussies
Serious separatists will drive on the left, in Vic, starting Sunday.
The lurch and fall of the Almería coast
Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.
¡Viva España!
A drunk-sounding Peacock Band playing accordions, bones, and mouth organs in a pub in Chelsworth, Suffolk the early 1970s.
Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained
Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.
Madrid Olympic bid scuppered by constitutional chaos?
Is Spain a federal state? Is Arenys de Munt the new Andorra? Can I pay taxes to anyone I want?