Sarkotraficante

Le blog du Chì, one year ago, on TF1’s enthusiasm for the apoplectic dwarf who substituted him as opium of the peephole. Another favourite mystification, from El Ciruco:

Mobile phone training

Provided by the Junta de Andalucía in collaboration with Vodafone. Don’t forget your glasses, and enjoy the raffle, presumably to be held in the rest break between the Introduction and the Practice sections: The English Wikipedia says that the history of Andalusia ended with the Muslims, which seems like fair comment. The Spanish version says…

Romería de la Primera Sueca/Pilgrimage of the First Swedish Totty

We’ve been outed by a couple of publications, so here’s the why/where/when for any readers of this blog who want to come along: La Hermandad “Pippi Kortkjol” invita a amigos, compañeros, y luchadores de anteriores y actuales jornadas a participar en la Romería Tradicional de La Primera Sueca, que este año se realizará el día…

Worst ever theatre experience

Sergi Belbel’s A la Toscana, last night, first night at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, of which Mr Belbel is the boss. It was well staged, the music was well done, and the actors are the ones who get all the work on the nacional circuit, and none the worse for that. But, like the…

Ilaridad

Hilaridad is increasingly ilaridad, while partner import hello is still universally jota-ised as jelo. Has this got anything to do with the availability of undubbed Ali G?

Citizenly doubts

I’ve got me doubts about the whole Ciutadans de Catalunya business, since (a) their potential electorate seems to have given up voting, and (b) they lack the common touch, and that’s putting it kindly. And when, for JC’s sake, is someone going to do something about their website? Even the neo-Nazis have a better one.

Why not dump “nation” from the constitution?

Check Ana Nuño’s Pequeño manual de mitología española. As she notes, one of the big problems we face is the dispute between those who say that “nation” is used in the constitution to refer to the group constituted by most of those living within Spain’s frontiers, and those who say that the word is actually…

Why not dump "nation" from the constitution?

Check Ana Nuño’s Pequeño manual de mitología española. As she notes, one of the big problems we face is the dispute between those who say that “nation” is used in the constitution to refer to the group constituted by most of those living within Spain’s frontiers, and those who say that the word is actually…