Day: November 15, 2010
Dances of the Fart-Vest
Ser catalá és treballar dur i amb les idees clares
Being Catalan apparently means working hard without thinking very much, but where does that leave us?
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La Vanguardia in 1889 re Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Barcelona: A la puerta del hipódromo vimos vendedores de caña dulce y en el interior unos vendedores ambulantes ofrecían otro dulce preparado con granos de maíz y miel. Honey-coated popcorn was already part of Cody’s commercial package in New York five years before, and La…
Buffalo Bill’s visit to Barcelona, marred by transcription problems. I forget who it was tried to patent a fartvest to combat spinal chills on Antarctic expeditions. Maybe it was me. If Apollo had hardwired something like this into us then her upstairs might have been spared the perennial torment of how to fit a hairdryer…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians