Socialism – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued

Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.

Teatro Apolo in Barcelona, ca 1910, advertising the zarzuela Bohemios by <a href='http://www.zarzuela.net/ref/reviews/amadeu11_eng.htm'>Amadeu Vives</a>. CC from <a href=

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Ernst Jünger and the Libyan revolution

Chunks of Heliopolis and Eumeswil dealing with smartphones, language and power meet up with the Gaddafis.

Arthur Ditchfield, The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers (1873), at the <a href='http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125738/oil-painting-the-casbah-and-the-ravine/'>V&A</a>

Get your authentic copy of Muammar al-Gaddafi’s Green Book before they’re all burnt!

For sale, 50 hard-cover copies liberated from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London during the legendary 1986 squat party.

Source of <a href='http://media.photobucket.com/image/gtmtdi%20squat%20libyan%20embassy%20%28penguin%20collection%29/killyourpetpuppy/Various%20related/God%20Told%20Me%20To%20Do%20It/img301.jpg?o=1'>clipping</a> unknown, uploaded by <a href='http://s208.photobucket.com/home/killyourpetpuppy'>killyourpetpuppy</a>, who has some marvellous photos

Politics, the art of confusion

A borrowed verdict on the current public utterances of Spanish officials, and a suggestion that the Catalan national question may be about to be resolved in the same way it was in 1918-23.

The demolition of <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Columns'>Puig i Cadafalch's symbolic four columns</a> in 1928, CC from <a href='http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catalunya-Barcelona-EnderrocamentColumnesMontjuic.jpg'>Wikimedia Commons</a>

Discovered: Cataloonia’s true fet diferencial

It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.

<a href='http://socialistes.cat'>La Catalunya que sap on va</a>. [Photo <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.es'>CC</a> from <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/28561655@N00/'>vicenstort</a>]

Male prostitute waiting for business in Park Güell

It’s all a question of taste and budget in Gaudy’s famous Parky Gay, just up the road from the Sangria Familia.

Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

Mural at the foot of the Carmelite church on Monte Carmelo, Barcelona.

The Asociación de Familias Adoptantes en China promotes itself with a picture of slitty-eyed chinkies

But is the prevailing Spanish refusal to distinguish racism from multiculturalism actually more sensible than the Anglocabrón approach?

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