Animals – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Fried pigeon egg for breakfast

This is a rather convenient arrangement – I ‘ate facking pigeons.

Homeless Chinese in Barcelona

Plus, how to acquire a country house for next to nothing.

A bird in the hand

Is the Nursing Madonna actually a dirty joke? Jesu, rex masturbatorum?

Juan Sánchez de Castro, Virgen de la Leche (MNAC)

Young German killed in a Barcelona bullfight

But what was Mr Wandersahen’s real name?

A brief history of zoological shame

Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.

Spain, zombie kingdom?

Some terrible discoveries along the Llobregat.

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Question about diachronicity, dreams and nationalist historians

OK, in this dream I’m talking to a pigeon farmer about how folks are more prepared to condone pinioning some species than others, and then a flock starts smothering my face and I wake up with a bit of sheet over my head. So brain 1) meets object in the here-and-now, 2) makes false interpretation,…

Revealed, the identity of the horny apparition in the story of St Benedict, the blackbird, and the nettles

A 19th century Roman historian says she’s from the Roman Merula (blackbird) clan.

Detail of Nicolò di Pietro, The temptation of Saint Benedict.

La lengua secreta de los cazadores

–¿Cómo se llama un cerdo silvestre que acaba de salir del bosque? –¡Jaballí! Not one of mine. If you prefer your animal tame and stuffed, Lenox has a bull’s head for you. I almost acquired one from a bar that was closing down, but there were parasites crawling out of its orifices.

Is it the fault of the Greeks that the Germans are the way they supposedly are?

I sense potential for reparations claims citing Aesop.