Part III of Dispatches from the Catalan Front. Politics: a farce or elaborate game of “parties” that “celebrate” elections and steal the silverware while everyone’s high on flag porn. In Spain, a neo-feudal constitutional monarchy whitewashed with a thin veneer of illusory representative democracy, the farce has become so thick that the ongoing litany of … Continue reading
Part II of Dispatches from the Catalan Front. So today October 14th Catalan president Mas just finished a historic press conference assuring the citizens of Catalonia that there will indeed be a vote on November 9th despite the constitutional court’s suspension of the Catalan law of public consultations. How will this happen? Via Plan B: … Continue reading
Part I of Dispatches from the Catalan Front. The stanzas seem to vary but the leitmotif is oddly familiar: we suspect history is rhyming again. The Scottish rebellion by vote has failed, outmanouvered by limey crown rep Cameron who lulled them into a honey trap and beat them soundly with sweet nothings. The Yes camp … Continue reading
… and a pox partially lifted by Hope. June 18th This is not the first rainy night I ponder on the language of karma, but it may well be the most significant, a moment of mighty confluence between material and subtle currents. Tonight is the last night of the old kingospain; tomorrow Flip becomes the … Continue reading
It seems hard to believe anyone was actually surprised at the news of kingospain’s abdication. I mean, c’mon, just look at the guy, he looks like death warmed over. Heck, even national TV had a “secret” content tag on its website called “abdication of the king”. This blog has been announcing the end of the … Continue reading
If ever there was a time for Catalans to fall on their knees and pray fervently to their patron saint, it would be on this 23rd of April, the day of Sant Jordi, because we’re going to need all the support we can get to make it to year’s end. 300 years ago Catalans were … Continue reading
Well, we’re a couple of days into 2014, and boy it feels good to have left 2013 behind. What a drag of an annum last year was, so much noise and so little substance. Here in Spain the cryptofascist PeePee gummint has set the country back twenty years in the past year, implementing the God’s … Continue reading
For the observer of karmic symmetry in the collective reality, the new year begins with a whole lot of shakin’ going on. Mr. Apocalypse is in full-blown sneak mode, digging away behind the scenes and tossing the dirt into the public eye, a lil’ bit here, a lil’ bit there and a whole bunch everywhere. … Continue reading
When con artists join forces to pull off a job, the result is a con fusion. After months of tense buildup to what was supposed to be Catalonia’s big step towards independence, the final electoral results have been, in a word, confusing, ambiguous and unexpected. To start, the polls turned out to be completely wrong, … Continue reading
Yawn… what? Oh, yeah. The Catalan livestock is again being rounded up for shearing milking cutting elections a mere two years after the last elections. Two years? Wait, aren’t political sinecures meant to last four years? WhattheheyisGOINGON? Right. I know these aren’t your garden-variety morning erections, but more of a blue pill-driven affair, so you … Continue reading
Funny thing about certain kinds of printed fabrics: when they appear, rational thought is replaced by patriotic platitudes and other mob dynamics. Something similar happens with certain kinds of printed paper, which the mind tends to mistake for something of value. Such behavior is itself “imprinted” on our brains in a Pavlovian fashion: see flag, … Continue reading
Before the eleventh of September 2001 went down in the annals of infamy as the day of the Twin Tower attacks, this particular day was already infamous in other parts of the world. In Chile, for example, 9-11 is the day the Allende government was overthrown by a military coup in 1973, thus a sad … Continue reading
99 Percent Space 