War and amusements – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Bites with denomination of origin

Tracing that hot doggie.

Raphael tortures Aquarius, Matt Monro destroys Libre (subtitled)

Do Spanish speakers get more excited about “defective” accents than English speakers?

Mysterious Zaragoza nights

Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.

Wok jock croc shock?

Will my favourite herpetoid be safe from the war on the narco wild life?

The universality of bu/bo/boo

The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.

Viaje a México

Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.

Spidy Wasch

A bit of free association, or rambling, as it is more widely known.

Congolese children singing the anthem of Athletic

Some corner of a foreign football pitch that is for ever Bilbao, and I hope they got fed afterwards: The original strikes me as thoroughly Teutonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns2rkb3Wb8 Let’s not kid ourselves any longer: everything interesting, from nachos to nationalism, was invented by the Germans. Fortunately they tend to be generous about using the proceeds to…

Farewell, hostess. Farewell Doll.

Or, the dangers of imbibing Coke in the long grass. Pay the musicians, sirrah.

Video: cat vs pigeon

Will the pigeon get the cat’s food, or will the cat get the pigeon?