Cervantes, prototype for el Cobrador del Frac?

Peter Harvey is suffering from that perennial Spanish problem–translation agencies that don’t pay the modest rates they promise. This blog enjoys dressing up but has no plans to become for the translation sector what el Cobrador del Frac is for the world at large: a debt collection agency which compensates for a deeply flawed legal…

Fake story about a fake passport

The headline belongs to Josu at Malaprensa, who has the marvellous story of how Guus Hiddink’s comment in Bild that it was unfortunate that Mesut Özil had distinguished himself with a bad pass was translated in the Spanish press as Hiddink regretting a false passport having been required to enable him to play for Germany.…

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Biciclown

QE1 once sent an organ avec grinder but sans monkey to Sultan Mehmet, but I don’t think anything good came of it–at any rate, there’s not much Orlando Gibbons being played in Istanbul these days. Biciclown, the excellent Álvaro Neil, is in Istanbul at the moment. Here’s one of his promotional videos: And here’s de…

Moralitat entre pallassos

Perquè no podria trobar cap altre treball, treballava fa molts anys de tant en tant com a clown. No m’agradava. Això és el codi ètic de la Familia de Clowns de Ronnie Johnson (Carson City, Nevada): Mantindré de bon gust el meu funcionament i comportament mentre estigui en vestit i maquillatge. Recordaré sempre que he…