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Stop all the clocks

cockroach1 wrote 1 day ago: The other day my watch stopped. If it was up to me I wouldn´t wear one, and free myself from the dai … more →

Tags: Naked mutton and well-dressed lamb, clocks, Watches, time, Old Spain, Customer Service, Ridley Scott, sci-fi films, calle Argumosa

Lavapies (4) Floor gymnastics with truncheon (or 'I predict a riot')

cockroach1 wrote 4 days ago: Last Summer there was an eye-catching piece of street graffiti that sprang up in the neighbourhood. … more →

Tags: Banksy, lavapies olympics, police, riots Tirso de Molina, police presence, Mounted Police, imigration, Illegal Immigration, street hawkers

But you are a cripple, Blanche...

cockroach1 wrote 2 weeks ago: But you are a cripple, Blanche... For the first time in three weeks, I have picked up my stick (lent … more →

Tags: Madrid, GP, X-Ray, madrid metro, soL, whatever happened to baby jane, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, hosital

It's official!!!

kelly b wrote 2 weeks ago: After four years of inching my way towards Lavapiés, I have finally made it! Toma ya! See kids? Drea … more →

Tags: Madrid, Piso, apartment, Auxiliar, Teach, English

New Content

Ben Lynam wrote 3 weeks ago: Just uploaded some new stuff to the site, including 2 projects. 1. Lavapies Urban Renewal, done last … more →

Tags: general info, CD/DVD Rack, CV, projects

Going for Gold

cockroach1 wrote 3 weeks ago: There was a slump of disappointment in Madrid a few weeks ago when we lost the Olympic bid. Again. A … more →

Tags: lavapies olympics, Accommodation, burocracy, crime rates, Eviction, Graphic Design, Infrastructures, lavapies olypics, local authority

Cabrones!4 comments

Katie wrote 1 month ago: I leave the piso just before 7.30 tonight to cycle to yoga, all suited up with my reflective gear. B … more →

Tags: Cycling, Madrid

Milky, Milky

cockroach1 wrote 1 month ago: So how does a British cockroach scavenge a living on the mean streets of Madrid? I teach English to … more →

Tags: language timothy, Madrid, cockroach, Cockroaches, Milk, milkman, milksop, milk it!, Teaching English

Oh no, not I, I will survive....

cockroach1 wrote 1 month ago: You may be wondering why the title ‘Cockroaches and Coffee’. This being Spain, the coffe … more →

Tags: Cockroach people of Lavapies, Madrid, Immigration, cockroach, Cockroaches, roach, ibiza, Coffee, pest control

Thieving Cows?

cockroach1 wrote 1 month ago: A few days after the Cow Parade was inaugurated in Madrid a group of 6 youths stole one of the sculp … more →

Tags: mean streets, Madrid, Immigration, multi-culturalism, graffiti, cow parade, Hogarth, militant graffiti artists of stockholm, Banksy

Summer Storm

Cassandra wrote 1 month ago: You’ll have to crank the volume and excuse my filming skills , but here ’tis: 10.7.09 40 … more →

Tags: Madrid, Video

Street Art: Fiestas y Festivales7 comments

inthesity wrote 8 months ago: Algunos de los streetartistas más activos de la ciudad, entre otros Alberto de Pedro, Javier Abarca, … more →

Tags: Dancing Queen&King, Exposiciones, Malasaña, street arte, arte, Festivales, Poster, Stree Art

Han chapado El Rincón Japonés8 comments

inthesity wrote 10 months ago: Esta entrada ha sido modificada por descubrimientos posteriores a su publicación, pero como el sitio … more →

Tags: de Compras, HAN CHAPADO, Antón Martín, chapado, Comida Japonesa, Japon, Mercado

Your Name On a Death List. For The Sake Of The Neighborhood, Of Course.1 comment

Jolijn wrote 1 year ago: Within the next few months at least 58 people will be assassinated in a massive Lavapiés murder myst … more →

Tags: Culture, Madrid, Murder game

Beautiful Losers. Atención Gafaplastas4 comments

inthesity wrote 1 year ago: Pegatina cortesía de El Mejillón Suicida Bueno gafaplastas y hardcorines (ex-niños inadptados que ha … more →

Tags: arte, Exposiciones, street arte, Arte Urbano, Fotografía, gafapastas, La Casa Encendida, modernukis

The search goes on...and on...and on...

penelopepepita wrote 1 year ago: It’s not that I don’t have a house.  The issue is that the room that I have currently is … more →

Tags: Bike, park, apartment, Piso, Álvaro, Chema, tirso

Han chapado el Jaipur4 comments

inthesity wrote 1 year ago: Esta vez han chapado mi restaurante indio favorito el que califiqué de best indian inthesity, bueno … more →

Tags: De Plato, HAN CHAPADO, COMER, Restaurantes

En plan han chapado el año nuevo chino

inthesity wrote 1 year ago: Mañana a las 17 empeiza el año de la rata y por segundo año consecutivo no habrá celebraciones en La … more →

Tags: HAN CHAPADO, fiestas populares, Madrid me Mata

slow spain at Slate magazine

cataspanglish wrote 2 years ago: My comments about the Madrid bombings were picked up by Slate, a daily web magazine owned by the Was … more →

Tags: slow Spain, News, pp, Politics, zapatero, cataspanglish, 11-M, ETA, Madrid


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