WTF@WFMU

Espléndidos delirios de grandeza extremadamente modesta.

El obispo:

The Vampire of the Raval who wasn’t

Here, re Elsa Plaza, Desmontando el caso de la Vampira del Raval. It was always obvious to anyone prepared to read the press reports up to the death, imprisoned but with no-one prepared to try her, of Enriqueta Martí that the only basis for her continued detention was an unwillingness on the part of the…

Worthless people

Mónica de Oriol of the Círculo de Empresarios has apologised for her assertion that those who don’t work and don’t study are good for nothing, and is said to be in discussion with Procol Harum re new opportunities for Spain’s young and not-so-young unemployed. The unions are opposed, and believe we should continue to implement…

Crate/office training

Never heard of it, but it reminds me that we lack a Wikipedia page on office culture, to include the following: Office training is the process of teaching a human to accept an office as a familiar and safe location. Advocates claim that humans are den-dwelling animals and that a office can become a den…

I quite like Radio Occitania

If you are immune to the narcissim of small differences and accept the notion that Valencian is a dialect of Catalan, then you should have no major problem with the idea that Catalan is a dialect of the tongue of the Orcs, or troubadours as they prefer to be called – the two are mutually…