The Italians have the all best games
(Even if they can’t make a decent paella.)
Category: Empire
1500-1700
Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard
Or perhaps it isn’t.
Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained
Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.
Going to the dogs
Vague musings on the past and present of hare coursing and greyhound racing in Spain.
The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.
Mosquitoes, alcohol and violence
A Catalan children’s song remembered by Francesc Candel; early rave culture on Central America’s eastern seaboard.
Spain, a nation of whores, soldiers and fools?
Spanish entries from the 1811 Dictionary of the vulgar tongue, with some fanciful etymological speculation and a mercifully brief bout of bar-room anthropology.
Go forth and multiply
Witness accounts from the records of the Spanish Inquisition in Córdoba.
A league and a turd/Legua y mierda
Minsheu’s Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues: where did he get all that horseshit?
Star Trek, the origins
Kalebeul’s investigation into Vosk and the Na’kuhl temporal conduit yields some surprising results.