Category: Liberals & locals
1833-1938
Errar es umano
Herrar es de Vulcano & colegas.
Boom and bust suicide myths
The Spanish property crash and 1929. With an anecdote of a frustrated rural hanging.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s plagiarism of la Moreneta almost foretold
Pío Baroja got pretty damn close to the Catalunacy of José Luis Espejo in La dama errante.
A bird in the hand
Is the Nursing Madonna actually a dirty joke? Jesu, rex masturbatorum?
Fixing the rootless cosmopolitans
Sylvia Townsend Warner, The scapegoat, and the Diodorus phallic thimble quatrain
AKA shit AMA says.
Young German killed in a Barcelona bullfight
But what was Mr Wandersahen’s real name?
Did the Hapsburgs (or whoever) really force Jews to adopt absurd surnames in the late 18th century?
Or is it a proto-Nazi myth?
Unusual duelling weapons
Of sausages, sugarcandy, daggers on helmets, sharp-bladed collars, pills, and billiard balls, with a note on zombie destruction.