Montjuïc – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Narco tombs in San Miguel Arcángel, Culiacán and Barcelona

Luis Estrada’s new narcoflick, El Infierno, a brilliant narcoart short by Don Bartletti, and a couple of my old photos.

Monkey hangers in 17th century Barcelona

Xenophobic atavism in the 1640 Reapers Revolt.

Semen shortage on Montjuïc, Barcelona

The cottaging zone is getting so popular they’re having to pipe the stuff in.

Duck hunting in the nature reserve on the Llobregat

It’s no longer a swinging safari now the nature-lovers have got guns too.

Etymology of Montjuïc/Mountjoy/Montjoie

“Jewish mountain” is currently hot favourite in Barcelona council offices because it is believed that this will attract well-off tourists from New York and Israel. Joan Amades says that at the end of the C19th, local sailors referred to gardens of St Bertrand as fossa del jueu, “the Jewish grave”, and indeed there were Jewish…