War and amusements – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Leonardo Da Vinci’s plagiarism of la Moreneta almost foretold

Pío Baroja got pretty damn close to the Catalunacy of José Luis Espejo in La dama errante.

Celtic fans vs Barça fans

The musical, by Richard Strauss.

Fixing the rootless cosmopolitans

Most of the people I know regard themselves as left-wing, so I’ve heard this form of apocalyptic xenophobia more from guys with curious haircuts than from guys who have dispensed with the razor guard altogether. Mein Kampf etc are familiar but I don’t really know the “left” national-socialist equivalents. Here, however, is the Stalinist machine…

Euro exploitation flick documentaries on YouTube

No budget, no morals.

Updated esteladas

And a great train-wreck song.

Young German killed in a Barcelona bullfight

But what was Mr Wandersahen’s real name?

15-M’s principal revolutionary goal revealed

Cinema for animals.

Amusing neighbourhood battle for control of public resources

Old guard horticulturalist-hippies versus arriviste mums-with-babes-hanging-off-their-tits, at stake a substantial villa and gardens near Park Güell and corresponding state subsidies. Let the death threats commence! Younger and stony-broker, I briefly contemplated the cloister, sacred or secular (Dutch prisons were pretty good back then). With retreats genuinely isolated from public-spirited humans increasingly hard to find, I…

Unusual duelling weapons

Of sausages, sugarcandy, daggers on helmets, sharp-bladed collars, pills, and billiard balls, with a note on zombie destruction.

Hammer horror!

Why the guillotine should not be Spain’s tumbril-filler in the coming revolution.