Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
The Future is So Dark, I Cannot Find My Shades
As you can see from the above photo which I was take the day before yesterday, everyone here is bloody freezing and having to huddle together on the beach at Playa Blanca in the hope that our body heat will generate enough warmth to see us [...]
Book Review: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: Frances Stonor Saunders - Faber and Faber (London 2010). 375pp
This is an unusual book. It deals in detail with a dramatic (if overlooked) historical event and offers a thoughtful treatment of insanity in the early 20th century. In the excellent first chapter we are treated to a [...]
The Usurper Bendedict: Don’t worry, is just a bit of wind, queen.
Queen: Si, but I think I may have follow through, usurper.
The usurper Bendedict is on the fake papal visit to Britain this week in an attempt to butter up the Queen and Prince Phillips and divert attention away from sundry ill-doings and goings-on [...]
Where is My Fire Engine, Thieving Gypsy Lady?!
I am can only give you a roundup of the impressive fascism-on-the-march news this week, since it have all been so busy, but you should all be inspire and motivate by seeing some of the most important people in Europe FINALLY doing some moves to promote the escape [...]
Meet the Spartniks!
As regular readers of my blog are already know, my father was in the Spanish air force back in the time when it was the poor relation of the arm services. The navy and army and Spanish Foreign Legion was get most of the glory during the Spanish Civil War for Golf, and [...]
Football and Fascism | R.W. Johnson – LRB Blog
While Mark Fisher provides a more nuanced analysis of the cultural and socio-political significance of football in British life than Terry Eagleton’s grandstanding flourish to ‘abolish the game’, its worth checking out R.W. Johnson take in the LRB blog on the connections between fascism and football. [...]
For How Much Longer Will We See Images like This?!
I am sure you were both horrified, like me, to read in the newspapers this week about the disgusting debate in the Catalan parliament to ban bull-fighting forever in that region of Spain. Those of us with any sense of history or appreciation of cultural identity [...]
Mourinho was give the Catalans a Brazilian!
I am sure you was all saw the Champions League semifinals match on Wednesday night, played in Spain’s seventh most important city, Barcelona (after Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Toledo, Oviedo, and Pontevedra). I am only now this morning come round from my stupendous party, which have been going on for [...]
Why did you take him, Lord? He was only 89.
Of all the terrible appalling news that there have been in recent weeks, such as the small earthquake in China, the volcano in irrelevant Iceland, the discovering of life on Neptune, the decision by Dublin Bus to change many of its routes, surely they are [...]
He is not easy to miss!!
I am think I was mention last week in my post that my next-door neighbours, the Mengeles, have been in a state of self-impose quarantine for the last six weeks. But I was not specify the reasons, which is that they were carrying out very important secret domestic science esperiments. [...]
