Óscar Suárez Bermúdez, 81, his son, Óscar Suárez Melián, and his daughter-in-law, Lucía Díaz Medina, joined it onto the neighbours’ and repainted the façade in the hope that the repossessers would not be able to find it. (Via Subastas Judiciales, who I believe is also of the opinion that if – as the millenarian Plataforma…
It seems that most of the chiliasts went nowhere but to the Turkish facialist, who draped a monkey pelt across their face (alla los Fabulous Furry Freak, ’68) and returned them to the cocktail bars of downtown Barcelona, which now resemble the simian quarter of the zoo. Some escaped (one now runs the best bike…
Varios números, la mayoria holandeses que tendré que cantar en 5 semanas para la coronación del nuevo rey, pero con algunas cositas más: Daisy, daisy Himno nacional holandés (“Soy Guillermo, mi sangre es alemana…”) en versión de Leiden confiscada por los Nazis en 1940 Tulpen uit Amsterdam De postkoets Kleine café aan de haven Cowboy…
The itching time came up yesterday, probably referring to Francoism, while I was prancing around in a new wig for purposes that will shortly be revealed. DCVB says “l’any de la picor” refers to distant times, and proverbologist Víctor Pàmies cites Joan Amades’s hypothesis that it comes from the Year of Fleas and Famine, 1471,…
Cf. one of the tales from the Decameron which made me laugh most as child, that of the hermit Rustico who teaches the virgin Alibech how to put the Devil back into Hell.
This has been down the tube a few times, but I still find it quite noteworthy that neither the El País theatre critic Javier Vallejo nor the Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes, hosting the show, manage to copy the name of Heinrich von Kleist’s protagonist correctly. Anyone would think they don’t give a monkey’s. Maybe…
Rather weary yesterday PM after a morning’s rabbit-hunting, so bumbled through Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant Decline and fall and Vile bodies, which contain quite a number of afternoon naps. Conjecture: the British began to replace the expression with “siesta” as they started staying awake after lunch and drowsing off became associated with the lazy Latins. Refutation:
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