Yesterday, I mentioned Cardinal Rouco and the deep
bow made to him recently by Queen Sofía. Well, he got a different
sort of honour when arriving for evening Mass in Madrid on Sunday
night. Five or six half-nude young ladies threw knickers at him and
shouted rude things in his face. On their bare fronts, I eventually noticed,
they'd inscribed "Toño, get out of my coño." Toño is a
diminutive of Antonio and coño is, well, something female. The
reason for all this is that Cardinal Rouco is widely seen as an
unpaid adviser to the government on abortion. Or perhaps 'lobbyist
for the Catholic Church' would be a better description.
El Mundo is a right-of-centre paper in the
land of a right-of-centre government. But it's been a bit uppity in
the last year or so, particularly as regards alleged corruption at
the heart of the administration. And now the editor's been summarily
sacked. Something which the NY Times described as 'engineered
retribution' and as the sort of political interference you'd expect in China and
Egypt rather than a European state. They obviously don't understand
how things are done here, then. The departing editor has claimed his
sacking was "a show of force by a government that wants to send
a message to the whole media sector. An attempt to use a time of
economic weakness to force the media to be docile, servile and to
practice self-censorship." That's how things are done.
A new bit of
Spanglish - Hacer un looping. This appears to mean 'To perform
a loop', in a plane, in a car or on a bike, for example. And Un
looping appears to mean, well, 'A loop'. They never get it right.
Could you make it up? A film director
marries his much younger leading lady, who later says his son is that
of a previous husband, after the lady has accused the director of
abuse of their adopted 7 year old daughter, while turning a blind eye
to the shenanigans of her other director friend with a 13 year old.
The first director then sleeps with and marries the even younger
adopted daughter of his (about to be ex) wife. The ex wife then
carries out a 20 year vendetta against the first director, after
which the abused 7 year old goes public with detailed accusations.
Will they make a film of it? And will Woody Allen direct it? With
special emphasis on the US judicial system finding insufficient
evidence to prosecute him. And on the slow regeneration of his
career, possibly now on the verge of crashing again. And with
everyone taking lie detector tests.
The Environment
January: 31 days. On which it rained: 30 - 97%
February: 4 days. On which it has rained: 4 - 100%
Thanks to nocturnal noises on the other side of
our shared wall and above-normal bawling at 7.15 this morning, I
concluded that Nice-but-Noisy Toni was back from the sea. And I was
right. Triple ear-plug time.
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