From Cantina to Quarantine

In these alarming days of global quarantine, the question returns of la belle, sweet, and triste Françoise Sagan: “Oh, but do you still travel?” Sagan judged that it was no longer worth traveling for the globalization of the asshole, the multinational franchises that offer the same products ...

Dangerous Liaisons

What a strange mania it is, being recorded while having sex, but today it is fashionable like stupid selfies or subnormal tweets. If the recording is done in a consensual way by the participating adults, there is nothing illegal and it enters the field of more or less absurd personal fantasies and ...

Life Is a Carnival

Thanks to a historic acqua alta (high tide) and the global hysteria of the coronavirus, tourist reservations in Venice have decreased by 30%. What a great time to go! In addition, the violin of Il Prette Rosso, Antonio Vivaldi, is mixed with the Cuban salsa of Celia Cruz, because we are in ...

Salvador Dali

Dalí at the Kremlin

“The Russian Revolution is the French Revolution which arrives late because of the cold weather,” said Salvador Dalí. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, but has great success in Russia today. In Moscow, the exhibition “Salvador Dalí: Magic Art” is having a massive influx of ...

The Aphrodisiac Spark

There is an Austrian legend that deals with a man who, according to his daily custom, goes to the Neugröschl restaurant in Vienna and has a goulash lunch. As soon as he returns home he goes to bed twice with his wife and thrice with his sister-in-law, rapes the maid, and is arrested just before ...

Dry January, or Not

I am glad to announce that the hysterical campaign orchestrated by abstemious Britons (rara avis) has been a complete failure in France. The new salvation army infiltrated government health organizations intending to prove to the Gauls the benefits of surviving the month of January without tasting ...

Antonio Banderas

What Color Is Zorro?

How funny it is when silly political correctness gets tangled up. The latest case has been a description of the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (in magazines such as Vanity Fair and Deadline) as one of the few candidates “of color” nominated for an Oscar. Banderas was born in wonderful Malaga, ...

Pedro Sánchez

Cabaret Government

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) The Bella Dorita was that star of the Catalan cabaret who, in a bloody time for Spain, when the anarchists decreed a single and equal salary for all, commented: “Very well, then show the usher’s ass.” Such a statement by Bella ...

Holy Smoke

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) The great tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano was once asked by a journalist: “Maestro, why do you smoke so many cigars?” To this impertinence Di Stefano responded with genius: “My dear signorina, that is because I am not a singer who smokes; ...

The Warm Embrace of Delirium Tremens

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Tell me what you drink and I’ll tell you how you love. There is an undoubted relationship between love and alcohol. According to scientists at the University of Birmingham, the effects of the so-called love hormone (oxytocin) and a good ...