The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September
A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.
Tag: madrid
Burt Reynolds, the source for George Best’s account of what he did with his money?
With a early description by Arturo Barea of the railway Reynolds was filming on when he recited the immortal lines..
Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018
The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.
Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017
More inanity from the Hackney organity.
The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away
A remarkable feat of memory from Arturo Barea’s autobiography.
Two cool & contrasting Barcelona retro photo series
With a chart comparing Catalan to Madrilenian GDP 1980-2009.
Langston Hughes in Spain
Idealism vs realism as a Stalinist hack copes with the Italian bombing of Barcelona but struggles to explain why Moorish peasants are slaughtering Spanish workers in the battle for Madrid.
The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued
Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.
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The secret life of Judge Garzón
Some doubts re the alleged assassination attempts.
Torrente, modeled on the mafia private dick in Peckinpah’s The Getaway?
The hair, the dress-sense, the profession: some of the basics are there.