Why they didn’t find Lorca
Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.
Category: The Church and the different sects
Factual/fucktual revisited
Launch of Arcadi Espada news-site.
Fish update
An unusual case of risus sardonicus
Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?
Jingoistic poem celebrating the Battle of Vigo Bay (1702)
Half roasted Frenchmen, some o’er Gratings Broil’d/Do mix with Spaniards in the Sea parboil’d;
Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?
Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”
Mysterious Zaragoza nights
Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.
El gallito inglés / le coq anglais
Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.
The lurch and fall of the Almería coast
Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.
The fretting nun’s secret
Kalebeul explained.