Nationalism – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Good Barcelona World rants

Miquel at Tot Barcelona suspects this may just be another scheme to enrich the Catalan oligarchy at the cost of the rest, while Salvador Sostres wonders why, since profit trails here generally lead to fiscal paradises rather than reinvestment, the ruling class describe themselves as Catalan, rather than Swiss, patriots. Did Barcelona’s tourist crime entrepreneurs…

Kill a monkey, kill an Englishman

Re monkey hanging in Britain and Spain, MC points me to ¡Mata Un Mono, Mata Un Inglés!, a nationalist anthem by the late 80s fascistoid-friki band Pabellón Psiquiátrico: Yo sé cuándo llega el verano se pudre la fruta y aparecen los gusanos. Gusanos de papel gusanos grises gusanos sanos ¡no entiendo lo que dicen! ¡Mata…

Columbus was a proto-Judenstaatler, says someone

But a joke I have just cobbled together suggests otherwise.

Fine, public demonstration of the political collapse of Spain

Will the ECB arrive in Barcelona to a gunfight between competing police forces?

Quién soy, quién somos

Catalañol for qui sóc, qui som.

Corpus del patrimoni culinari català

What, no pepper?

Question about diachronicity, dreams and nationalist historians

OK, in this dream I’m talking to a pigeon farmer about how folks are more prepared to condone pinioning some species than others, and then a flock starts smothering my face and I wake up with a bit of sheet over my head. So brain 1) meets object in the here-and-now, 2) makes false interpretation,…

Breogán redux

Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”

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.

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