I am told that La Vanguardia’s emblematic but problematic Londoner hasn’t contributed anything for a year. Characteristically, his most recent filing, from November 2011, is a reworking of a news story about the Redruth Close Hill estate curfew, which appeared briefly in the British press in 2008. Not much value for money when reporters start…
Apparently a splendid wind farm has been built in Portugal, whose only minor disadvantage is that it is so remote from the national grid that it will never be connected. One always wondered about those Great Leap Forward stories in the NYT etc. Some detail would be welcome.
English: deMOcracy, Spanish: demoCRAcia, German: demokraTIE. Would multilingual discussion and implementation of such a potentially useful concept be facilitated by the creation by Brussels of a well-remunerated Accent Unification Committee, or is diversity key? It’s downright aucword to think that others may think you’re dumb just because you stress such a basic term wrongly in…
Re this, JB comments that showing any kind of relationship between financial and technological innovation is kind of hard, but rather liked this illustration – of what happens when you let an entrepreneur also run monetary policy. (When was Spain’s first bubble? Spanish Wikipedia is big on Anglo disasters, but doesn’t mention Spanish railways in…
Asked later what happened to the money he had earned, Best replied: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” Which is more or less what Burt Reynolds/Yaqui Joe Herrera says at 16:40 in 100 Rifles (1969), which I imagine Best would have seen.
Here. At least the Vuitton fakes look good for a week, but you’d have to be pretty subnormal to be seen alive/dead in Duffin Dagels, and pretty legally clueless to buy a franchise off Antonio Crespo Lopez – or perhaps not, if Spain’s record on intellectual property protection in digital markets is a reliable guide.…
Judge for yourselves. It says both, I’d go with the former (and offer a third of the price), but the latter has become popular among professional vendors of C20th properties in styles unrelated to art nouveau or anything. This is analogous to the use of “de los moros” etc to describe hilltop ruins, including an…
An employee on FB: “OK, it was 11 years ago, but does anyone know what a WTC actually does?” Fucked if I know dude, it’s a Muslim interpretation of a fucking Aztec human sacrifice pyramid, right?
