there's also the fact that irina doesn't speak a word of spanish to consider...

i actually enjoyed this article a lot more than i expected, given my personal feelings about the subject matter (obvious from my user name) and my reticence at it being covered by an open barcelona supporter (had to throw in that line about ronaldo being a "whining glory-hound," didn't you?).

excellent.

i do love that the bowling alley he went to is called the gutter. it would only be more fitting from a public health perspective if he'd followed that up with drinks at the trash bar.

uggggh, this is bringing up bad memories: i just moved out of a sublet that had a weevil infestation that was somehow centered around my bedroom (despite the fact that weevils usually fixate around sources of grain like pantries). i set up traps in every corner, ransacked the room for any cache of food, and still…

i'm hoping someone with particular knowledge can clarify: is the sexism described in the article above really a facet of "kurdish society" (aka, the society to which kurds, a trans-national ethnic group) as a whole, or of kurdistan society, aka, the society of the kurdistan region in iraq? i worry there's some…

reminds me of the little real madrid fan who got a barca jersey for his birthday:

yes! and the woman who plays mariah's double is a russian model who doesn't speak much english and gets really upset because she thinks mariah <em>actually</em> hates her when they have to fake-fight, and it's great.

you seem like you'd be super fun at parties

i'm currently living in the 13th, smack in the midst of paris's chinatown (a weird misnomer, given that most of the restaurants around me are vietnamese or thai), and the food here is really quite good.

Given the anti-semitic climate in the country at the moment, it does not surprise me one bit how easily Galliano's been welcomed back into the French fashion scene.

I don't agree with the way the person you've replied to has characterized asexuality, but in my experience I've encountered a lot of people who self-identify as asexuals and willingly engage in sex for a variety of reasons, from "it feels good" to, yes, "I love my partner, and I do it as an act of intimacy because I…

I think it depends on the context, honestly. There are some situations where the queer and asexual community (that's not including people who identify as both ace and lesbian, or ace and trans) have common ground, but others where they don't belong together.

"The one I've seen start to take root on Tumblr"

it's sad that this is such a brief, fluff post, since there's a really fascinating story to be told about barcelona's upper management and its position on catalan separatism in the last decade. their last president, joan laporta, is active in separatist politics and his desire to make barca fanhood synonymous with…

gee, i wonder what airline this song could be about... fucking ryanair.

HAHAHAHAHA welcome to europe. *cries over being hit with a €75 "oversize" baggage fee for literally being a centimeter over the carryon limit*

anyone up for a celebratory hot spaniards thread? i'll start!

it's a testament to how utterly horrific the pabt is that whenever i leave brooklyn to visit my parents in northern new jersey, i prefer to take the A train all the way to the george washington bridge bus terminal (itself no shangri la) and then pay $2 to take what we fondly refer to as the "mexican party bus" jitney…