Theology – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Euro exploitation flick documentaries on YouTube

No budget, no morals.

Sylvia Townsend Warner, The scapegoat, and the Diodorus phallic thimble quatrain

AKA shit AMA says.

Trompe-l’Å“il ascent to Heaven of Our Lady of Mercy, Barcelona

This time-lapse video reduces some 38 minutes to 2.5. The great bronze Vulture and Child on top of the Basilica de la Merced/Mercé was cast after the war from the remains of smaller monuments to red and separatist leaders and I think the phoney arch was added at the same time. The spectacle is visible…

Updated esteladas

And a great train-wreck song.

Battles of the if-only-they’d-been-homophones: Mars vs Marx

An optimist might say that the chart shows a Roman deity giving way to a late Old Testament prophet giving way to scientific interest in the world(s) about us.

Only sensible use for cheap red wine at 30C+

Mrs Casas says mix 1 cup lemon juice, 1 cup water, 2 cups red (Murcian renal, for example), 1 wedged peach, 4 lemon slices, 3 tbsp sugar, refrigerate for a couple of hours, drink. She also does a splendid iced coffee. The budget booze base is still without third party contributions, suggesting that none of…

Onion-Apollo and old chorizo moon fight it out in a stewpot-cosmos of bean-stars

I think it’s quite Turner, but the public says it’s underexposed and I should have cleaned the camera lens. Alubias pintas by.

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

What to do about the miners

Now the Spanish government has adopted my scheme to reduce the number of ayuntamientos, they will surely be on the line soon to purchase my ancient and well-documented plan to provide work for miners and reduce emissions, which has been pirated by at least one other joker: sequester and crack CO2, lump the carbon, and…

Think this is a Picasso?

You deserve to be cheated.