Downtime

Apologies–I know who brought the site down, and I know that they did it deliberately, but I can’t do anything about it and I can’t tell you about it here.

Weirder plot than Baron Sakender

Tik-Tok of Oz. Did you know that Toto could talk but chose not to, and that the tornado was made with a sock? This is all useful stuff.

I am completely unlike anyone else

That’s what this facial analysis site said to this heavy/ska-period PR shot. This wide awake one on the other hand had it thinking of Alfred Rosenberg, Eddie Murphy and Jane Fonda. This would have been too obvious. (Via whatserface)

Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!

Cunning punning over at Gay Nazi Sex Vicar. (I once spent an hour listening to a shy Scottish gent with no great enthusiasm for dipthongs or final ts talking about Mozart piano concertos (The peni$ enters here, etc).)

St George the Nasty

Here‘s St George killing a hermaphrodite Swedish dragon. In Abkhazia they used to celebrate a feast of St George and the Cow. What can one do?

Can I coup my horse here?

PP senator Carlos Benet has said that Pavía entered Congress on a horse (during the 1874 coup), Tejero with a pistol (this is the 1981 coup that failed), while Zapatero arrived by suburban train (the reference is to the Al Qaeda train bombs before the elections two years ago). I don’t think Pavía actually went…

Theo van Gogh film @ the Filmoteca

Tomorrow at 7:30 they’re showing old fatso’s low-budget, quasi-real, low/high culture Interview (“The cabinet’s going to fall tonight and I’ve got to go and interview a pair of tits”; Dutch with Spanish subtitles(?)) as part of a Dutch film week. There’s a full programme here (PDF), but I make this the pick of the bunch.

More citizen journalists…

Manel Al Qaafr and the people over at Hispalibertas are launching something. Here are some rules for contributors, and here‘s how to get a look at a trial version. I’m sceptical: I think the future of participatory journalism lies not in sites like this but rather in a combination of mass, diffuse publishing with improved…

Killing the pig

Jayne’s got a photo here, and here’s an old joke which is told in Spain and probably in other places too: A farmer brings home a new horse, which immediately gets sick. The farmer calls out the vet, who takes one look and says, “That horse of yours is in a bad way. Make it…