2009 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

SCAM

Or, the (Parisian) Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (via). Recalls SHIT (photos), the Servicio de Hosteleria Industrial de Terrassa, which sells big saucepans. Should organisations aim for stupid/obscene acronyms on the basis that all shit is good shit?

Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard

Or perhaps it isn’t.

The lurch and fall of the Almería coast

Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.

Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained

Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.

Jaycee integrated into the bondage porn industry

40+ years of feminism, and this is the best the Huffington Post and People.com can come up with.

Wok jock croc shock?

Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?

The universality of bu/bo/boo

The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.

The fretting nun’s secret

Kalebeul explained.

The naming of El Picazo

Mr Muñoz Soliva postulates the participation of some peculiarly phurtive Phoenicians.

Euro doh

Someone has been defacing the Empire’s currency. (Thanks SD)