Theology – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The fundamental difference between Mussolini and Berlusconi

Is Silvio a cyborg?

Go forth and multiply

Witness accounts from the records of the Spanish Inquisition in Córdoba.

David Icke-like view of the relationship between pigeons and statues

Statues are designed to be bird-friendly on the orders of a mysterious avian deity, which may have held sway over Luis Buñuel.

Spanish woman academic dresses according to stereotype

From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.

“Palermo’s history is marked by the multitude of conquerors and subsequent cultures that settled there”

Cruise companies don’t appear to regard original copy as an important differentiating factor.

PP’s Last Supper?

Nice one from Ignacio Escolar, who quotes Luke and asks who’s playing Judas in this photo.

Spanish traditional theme park architecture

More traditional building for Colin Davies: Real stone is expensive and makes it hard to plug holes and to plaster, so in Spain@Disney you stick (pre)machined chunks or carpet tile-type stuff onto the concrete prefab with glue. Chorus: Cladding imitates but also improves on reality.

Burning dog: bizarre and brutal winter solstice celebrations in Spanish Pyrenees

The sun dog is seen above reborn, having previously mysteriously died at the end of the solar year: While its soul wanders the underworld, its old and weary body is barbecued and consumed in dark hovels by fearful peasants: I’ve forgotten who it was who believed the Old Testament was originally written in English, or…

Folengo’s Baldo

Pleased to see that the marvellous Baldus–a vague subterranean source of inspiration for the world’s wildest walking wisness–is getting a wider hairing. I’ve read chunks of the French translation and am looking forward to the English.

Sales on Moix

Carles Miró has conducted a lightning dawn raid on the correspondence between the publisher Joan Sales and his star author Mercè Rodoreda. Sales on Terenci Moix, a late 20th century chat show lit celeb: “Young Moix is a sadoleninist, one of those who consider that today simple homosexuality is nothing but a joke, that anything…