Category: Chronica majora

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Best ever portrait of June Caprice?

This original drawing with its delicious absinthe blue is by one Emili Vilà Gorgoll (Llagostera 1887-1967, who he?) & is up for auction at Balclis on Wednesday. Here’s the competition. I go basically for the munchies and the odd curiosity. I sense an inverse relationship between price and personal preference – the expensive stuff seems…

Capital controls during the Euro collapse

This strikes me as pretty plausible, and I’m guessing the export cap here will be around €1000-equivalent. If the public perception is that nationalist dictatorship created the Spanish middle class and eurocracy destroyed it (basically only the extremely rich have accounts in safe havens), then the future could be interesting.

Crisis, what crisis?

Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.

Why I facking hate personalised search

Me. Generally speaking I remember how to get back to all the important stuff I find, and if I’m still searching it’s because I want something different, not regurgitated Google Reader posts. Me and them. 90% of my social network “friends” don’t read this blog and don’t blog themselves. I like to think that this…