Fried pigeon egg for breakfast
This is a rather convenient arrangement – I ‘ate facking pigeons.
Category: Birds
A bird in the hand
Is the Nursing Madonna actually a dirty joke? Jesu, rex masturbatorum?
Question about diachronicity, dreams and nationalist historians
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.
Separating egg yolks from whites
Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.
¡Tú imitas tan bien a los animales! ¿No serás … aztor?
A phonological curiosity from coastal Cantabria, with speculation as to the supernatural powers of María Teresa Fernández de la Vega.
The storks of war
A fragment from Italo Calvino’s quasi-17th century folk romance, Il visconte dimezzato/The cloven viscount, uses storks as a portent of battle. Several unconnected 2nd century Greek accounts might appear to do the same, perhaps particularly if one’s a lazy sod and doesn’t read anything but scraps of stuff on Google Books.
Video: cat vs pigeon
Will the pigeon get the cat’s food, or will the cat get the pigeon?
On-line fraud
Birdies that ain’t.
Terminal Germinal
The pros of walking to Barcelona Airport.
