Chronica majora – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Bicing, Spain’s worst public bike scheme

Sez a German motoring organisation.

Juvenal: Will you please … learn the colour of your own bread

Class consciousness didn’t commence in the bakeries of the Industrial Revolution.

Otto van Veen, distribution of herring and white bread after the raising of the Spanish siege of Leiden by the Geuzen in 1574

Karlheinz Stockhausen, “one of the most important … composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries”?

The computer says no.

Think this is a Picasso?

You deserve to be cheated.

Whenever I see The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, I think of Alphonse Laurencic

And here. I would dearly love to find out more about Alphonse and his creations. Someone once showed me a magazine with a few relevant pictures, but I’ve forgotten who/what/where. All but the blind will have noticed my background tribute on this blog’s front page to Robert Wiene. The OpenFlix/YouTube publishing of Dr Caligari is…

Site with the salaries and allowances of Spanish public officials

http://sueldospublicos.com, and all without counting embezzlement. The growing list of (small town) mayors who earn more than Rajoy is a delight and an education – how else would you discover Elda (€89K/55K inhabitants)?

The Germans agree to save the euro – but no one’s told them yet

Sequel: The Hollande et al > Telegraph “scoop” ran well in the British and Spanish press, but doesn’t figure in Germany, whose press is not notorious for trying to save Merkel’s political bacon. I’ve long believed that the Telegraph publishes particular Euro finance stories on the basis of particular writers’ investment portfolios, but there’s a…

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