2011 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Almería’s LGTB collective to their Polish and Italian counterparts: Let’s integrate us!

No sooner has one bankrupt tribe finished subsidising with someone else’s money a visit by the billionaire Vicar of Christ when an opposing but equally impecunious clan pops up to proxy-finance solidarity tourism by the Spawn of Satan, no less, who might also have been able to pay for it themselves. But the really bad…

Invest your life-savings with Fucked Translation before Ben ‘n’ Merv render them worthless!

Google ads are not what they were never really going to be, and donations have been such a success that until this morning’s happy contribution a victim of comprehensive digitectomy could have counted the euros raised on the fingers of both stumps. But now the game has changed: the Bank of England has indicated that…

Lithos by Xavier Cugat at Brok

See him marry Rita Montaner! empathise with his doggies! buy me a print!

Rita Montaner marrying Xavier Cugat, by Xavier Cugat, @<a href='http://brok.es'>Brok</a>.

Seen but not heard

How to stop 1444/Vodafone phuckwits from waking you up during the siesta.

Basque prefers shitting blood to speaking Spanish

Better hurry up with that Darwin Award.

“Let’s roll!” in Spanish

“¡Dale al asno!” ruled out in the first round.

No woman, still die: a travesty of Henry Heath's <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1661443&partid=1&searchText=ahithophel+in+the+dumps&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&numpages=10&images=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>Ahithophel [Wellington] in the dumps</a>.

Spanish comprehension exercise

Via Carlos Ferrero. This will be of absolutely no assistance.

Do Welsh expats incline to rain-drenched hills?

Nature vs nurture in the Italian Jones tribe.

Does historical reenactment extend to speech?

Early modern editing for the creative anachronism market: judicious modernisation, sympathetically documented transcription, or Talk Like A Pirate?

Wicked witch selling babies at neo-romantic Bologna street-fair: beyond the bounds of nicestalgia?

Peró vs péro

A passing elf just told me that final syllable accentuation was common in early modern northern Spanish, but a couple of verse corpus searches haven’t turned up corroborative scansion. Anyone know any more before I waste the rest of my life on this ;-) ?