Category: Chronica majora

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Lexical roots of the eurozone crisis

PIIGS > stable > stability pacts. (If voters consistently elect free-spending hucksters who promise they’ve found a cure for boom & bust etc etc, then isn’t moaning about a democratic deficit as the bailiffs move in ever so slightly pathetic? They had their democracy, but they traded it in for pizza and the X Factor.)

Hot news

Although this fact may not have occurred to American journalists, living in monolingual paradise, it’s hard choosing names in a global market where everything means something bad to someone, somewhere.

Autonomous street organ

By one Martin Preston: The machine is coming along very nicely, judging by the photos being posted over on Feisbuk. One of my eardrums exploded in August after a surfeit of Ivor Cutler, but they’re hoping to put in a new one in 4-6 months time which, if it doesn’t accurately render real sounds into…

Breogán redux

Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”