Much ado about mutton

I blog pseudonymously in a couple of other places in order to be able to write with more freedom. The other day I was about to start a blog about litigious sheep when I suddenly realised that it ain’t what you sue but the way that you suet. So I melted them down and started…

Pyrenean fiestas & walks

Check out Jayne over at Pyrenean Notes, who’s plugging the fiesta in Plan, up in the Huescan Pyrenees, and writing about other interesting stuff like mountain walking.

Aka the sardana

The Dallas Morning News ($$$) has an interesting variation on the “Franco banned the sardana” urban legend: “In fact, during the tightest days of his rule, the Sardana dance was still performed here (but with a different name) …”

Who caused Katrina?

El País this morning seems still to be backing the “It wos Bush wot dunnit” hypothesis. This is because they are being paid to do so by the Russians–although they still haven’t managed to get the hammers and sickles up there in the clouds. (Thanks Dave)

Guttersniper

Someone who thinks I was born yesterday tells me this word is applied to policemen who shoot street children. (BTW: The Guttersniper has frenemies, an updating of the good/bad cop routine.)

Choppers on the bayou

From within my patent Dixieland trombone snorkel, I wonder how it was that Eddie DeLange got away with rhyming “Do you know what it means” with “to miss New Orleans”.

Cool business name

Aus, ous i caca, Birds, eggs and shit. The scooter went by too fast for me to enquire further.

Typographic walking tours of London

Here. They visit Postman’s Park, where I used on occasion to have lunch, and which commemorates among others a DTP slave martyred for using Motter Tektura in Seattle. (Would anyone still try to save someone else from a dangerous attack of weed?) (Off topic: When will we have a monument to the unknown minister?)