The Movie and the Beverage – What to drink when you’re watching a film
There are certain films which virtually cry out to you to pour yourself a glass of something. If you’re at home, that is, watching the telly or something you’ve downloaded and you can only watch it on your computer. Doesn’t “A Clockwork [...]
Archive for April 26th, 2008
26 Apr
The Movie and the Beverage
26 Apr
Tea Story
Tea Story
He turned the tap 60º anticlockwise and the water poured comfortably into the kettle with barely a splash thanks to its special shape. That had been one of the features that had convinced him to buy this particular kettle, rather than any of the others. It was supposedly shaped like a pear, which gave [...]
26 Apr
The Beginning of the Fable of the Rabbit in Chains
The Beginning of the Fable of the Rabbit in Chains
Once upon a time, there was a rabbit called Zarathustra who lived in a massive warren with dozens of other rabbits. Most of the rabbits were either her siblings or her step-siblings. Her mother was always pregnant, and she wasn’t really all that sure who her [...]
26 Apr
What S/Heen has been up/down to lately
What Sheen has been up to lately
I have spent so much time on getting this blog up and running, I haven’t had time for anything else these last few weeks, nay, months, but here goes, anyway:
Last Saturday I bought the cutest blouse you ever did see. It’s sort of lilac. I got it at Zara. [...]
26 Apr
Nicolás Sánchez Palazuela
Nicolás Sánchez Palazuela
Born 1946. Completed his secondary education in Madrid, and dropped out of university after one year. After working for two years in the kitchen of a restaurant in Madrid, returned to Zaragoza to open his own restaurant, “El Cazurro”, specialising in a fusion of “cocina aragonesa / japonesa”. Won his first Michelin star [...]
26 Apr
Liborio Alcázar Montes
Liborio Alcázar Montes
Born 1876. Studied with the Jesuits. Started work as a candlestick maker and joined a travelling circus at the age of 19. Soon realized his talents were wasted and took up voyeurism around the age of 24. Spied on females around Spain and published “Observaciones salaces” in 1931, a detailed account of his [...]
26 Apr
This week’s / month’s Fishodiac Forecast
This week’s / month’s Fishodiac Forecast:
The sun is in the Carp as we speak, with John Dory rising. This is a great time for all you Pilchards to get that unsightly facial hair seen to, and Sticklebacks: start revising for that exam, pronto! Later on in the month, I think we could find Carps and [...]
26 Apr
The Ultimate Horoscope
You’ve seen the boring one, with Aquarius and Taurus; you’ve done the Chinese one with snakes and horses; you’ve probably even tried the Mayan one and the Celtic one. But you have never seen your stars the Zaragoza Twins way – the Practical Fishodiac!
First, find what Practical Fish type you are, depending on your birthday:
The [...]
26 Apr
It’s about those candidates…
Heen says:
It’s so obvious I just can’t understand how nobody has noticed or mentioned it before. Hillary Clinton is a man and Barack Obama is white.
Commentators overlook (or just don’t know!!) that Hillary used to be called Walter up until her sex change in 1967, and that Barack was so impressed by Michael Jackson’s [...]
26 Apr
Why oh why oh biofuels
Sheen says:
It was just four or five years ago that a handful of mostly German and American agro-businessmen were proudly announcing they’d solved the problem of fossil fuel shortages, promising farmers profitable harvests and assuring us their new discovery was as environmentally friendly as you could get.
How could they be so cynical? How could we [...]
