New euro note watermark: Europa about to be knobbed by a (Spanish?) bull
Very funny, but Spain doesn’t need a rescue, honest.
Category: Heathen gods
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.
Fermín Salvochea, a successful comedy writer aged 1?
Cádiz’s anarchist saint seems to have been misunderstood regarding either his age or his achievements.
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.
Alectryon, the Ancient Greek model for our cuckold’s horns?
With a field study of the nymphomaniacs of Goa and brief notes on the early history of composite grafts.
Garzón and the Batman theory of justice
The relative awfulness of, and defining differences between, English and Spanish justice.
Photos and video of snowstorm in Park Güell
Includes video of snow felling a pine tree and a photo of a municipal bus which almost skated its way down-town.
How not to win la Guerra de los Toros, or The Cattle Raid of Cooley revisited
Some historical advice from an Irish perspective for Esperanza Aguirre on the pitfalls of attempting to demonstrate by symbolic means the virile and libertarian spirit of Madrid in the invented and regrettable conflict between it and doldrummed Barcelona.
The Lutheran conspiracy against Spain
With the Anglo-Saxon plot in tatters and Jewish machinations a non-starter, some strategic paranoia for Mr Zapatero. (Like: Is Mendelssohn’s Elijah a secret weapon of German subversion?)
Still life or road-kill?
There’s an oddly proportioned hare in one of this autumn’s auctions in Barcelona.
