Nueva figura lógica

February 5th, 2010

Para completar el oxímoron, cohabitación, paradoja y antítesis, necesitamos una figura de falsa antítesis, esto es, dos conceptos que fintan un choque, pero en el último momento se apartan. Por ejemplo:

El actor de reparto acaparó todos los premios.

Insomniac

February 3rd, 2010

Although the diagnosis wasn’t obvious for a long time, it seems that insomnia was what kept me from finding the woman of my dreams.

The Wicker Man (1973)

January 27th, 2010

The Wicker Man (1973) is not so much a horror film as a thriller with an appealing subtext critical of religion.

Sergeant Howie: What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?
Lord Summerisle: Parthenogenesis.
Sergeant Howie: What?
Lord Summerisle: Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
Sergeant Howie: Oh, what is all this? I mean, you’ve got fake biology, fake religion… Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
Lord Summerisle: Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost…

wicker-man-poster

Nowhere is now here

January 26th, 2010

Searching for the nowhere domain, it turns out that www.nowhere.com points to www.NowHere.de.

Sweeping statements

January 25th, 2010

It’s very difficult to criticise sweeping statements.

Demos Contra Cracia

January 2nd, 2010

Demos = Pueblo
Cracia = Poder, Gobierno

Madrid, S. Bernardo

Tiger hits a birdie

December 11th, 2009

Tiger Woods announced today that he is taking an indefinite break from golf to ‘focus [his] attention on being a better husband, father, and person’.

So was his wife upset because he was spending too much time away from home playing golf?

Como su propio nombre indica

November 30th, 2009

El País nos cuenta en su artículo “La hora del ‘orgullo gordo’”, que la autora del libro “Salud en todas las tallas”, que dice que ‘hay que combatir mitos como el de que no se puede estar saludable siendo gordo’, se llama Dra. Bacon.

<3

October 29th, 2009

Today I learned that  “<3″ means “love” because it looks like a heart if you tilt your head to the right.

What a relief. I was tilting my head to the left as with most emoticons, and I thought it meant “penis and testicles”.

Now all those emails and blog posts make a lot more sense!

Llanito poem

October 28th, 2009

She cried a river till
desembocar en la boca
of he who
lloraba a mares