Billionaire superyachts to save Barcelona’s traditional barrios!
But the Guardian has got its knickers in a twist.
Tag: mediterranean Sea
Separating egg yolks from whites
Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.
Concierto económico for Catalonia, independence for Andalusia?
With observations regarding the possible implications for Extramaduran truckers and flamenco policy.
Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution
Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.
Classifying mussels / muscles
Barcelona trading practices, builder’s crack-fish and the great Pacific birdshit war.
What’s it like being stuffed up a rooster’s arse?
Half Cock looks to a Tuscan witch for inspiration.
In praise of British arse
How amiably drunken shagfests could resolve the burka problem in a manner acceptable to freedom-loving readers of this blog.
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.
An unusual case of risus sardonicus
Is Mr Barbecue Bunny’s sardonic grin pre- or post-mortem?
Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?
Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”