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Category: The material universe

For sale, the church of St Paul at Montmany

Buy the scene of the miserable fate of the rector in Els sots feréstecs!

CC by <a href='http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:amadalvarez'>Amadalvarez</a> at <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sant_pau_de_montmany-nord.jpg'>Wikimedia Commons</a>

Canute, defeated by the waves, will nevertheless fix your plumbing

New business card from Barcelona’s best odd-job man.

A bicycling boho hobo, tempted by Cockaigne, fearful of Ruin

What to do when a mysterious lady offers you a free ride?

The lion and the gazelle playing chess or similar in a Ramesside topsy-turvy world papyrus <a href='http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=117404&partid=1&searchText=topsy+turvy+world&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=1'>from the British Museum</a>

Lleida airport (pot), meet Ciudad Real airport (kettle)

La Vanguardia appears interested in Spanish local airports as a means of diverting large sums of public money to private pockets to no obvious public benefit–except when the airport happens to be a Catalan one.

Lérida airport with Ryanair plane, without Photoshop, <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/thundershead/4491308317/'>CC by thunderhead</a>

Alien meets Eroski girl, best 21st century Spanish short film?

Unlike most subsidised official festival crap, it’s fast, funny and real. Well, kind of.

Les pervertis de Santander

Archaic French erotic pulp, plugging Cantabria’s gaping literary hole?

Classifying mussels / muscles

Barcelona trading practices, builder’s crack-fish and the great Pacific birdshit war.

“2012 possible predictions”

Three Anno Domino 2010 hints for survivalists in the Pyrenees.

Aneto, just how did it get this big? Photo <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aneto_01.jpg'>CC by Avh at Wikimedia Commons</a>.

An early candidate for a Darwin Award

David Bar-David, the lemming messiah.

<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lemming'>Eric Lemming</a> of Sweden came last in the 5,500m at the Paris Olympics in 1900. Photo CC from <a href='http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Erik_Lemming.jpg'>Wikimedia Commons</a>.

The Snow Virgin ain’t afraid of the rain

Not that it ever rains in Villanueva de la Jara, Cuenca.

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