Bulbul on spasmodic change in another ethno-polity which gets a kick from auto-strangulation. At least Mishima didn’t manage to drag the whole of Japanese society into his heroic belly-op.
A fine selection here. I updated WP to 3.0.1 from 2.9.something (solving the memory issues–I think the blurb said that the footprint was smaller, but that’s blatantly false), but I’m still catching up on work neglected in August so not much posting in prospect.
Having survived Liverpool, the intrepid Mr Harvey returns to Spain only to find himself menaced by pork lions, and worse. Our neighbourhood revolutionary proposes to visit this establishment, purchase 50 fragmentation hand grenades (incredibly cheap at €3.5), and call trading standards if they try any lousy scam, like serving pineapple.