Category Archives: Spain
George Thomas Clark Podcast #17 – Globetrotting Martial Artist
Even in high school, where I met him, Ken Lambert was known a dashing fellow. And as an adult he’s traveled and lived around the world, teaching and competing in martial arts and maintaining a successful business career as well as raising two sons. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Google, and other Digital Platforms
Also posted in Asia, Bangkok, Bruce Lee, George Thomas Clark Podcast, Karate, Madrid, Martial Arts
Points by Joe Six Pack
Liberals and other weaklings are destroying our country with this extreme and shortsighted lockdown. We conservatives have got to reestablish order. We do that by keeping in mind and acting on what President Trump and Rush Limbaugh and Fox News commentators and other patriotic geniuses tell us. First, remember that most of these poor people […]
Also posted in Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Fox News, France, Italy, Rush Limbaugh
Nuclear Bull
people who enflame my horns in spain and enjoy suicidal head butt against stake may soon be lit by nukes i watch from heaven Video of bull on fire
Also posted in Bulls, Donald Trump, Korea
Hemingway v. Fitzgerald
As a young screenwriter who helped but a little on the script of a recent movie featuring Frederic March, I’m stunned the star invites me to his lavish Beverly Hills home to watch a screening of the documentary The Spanish Earth written and narrated by Ernest Hemingway, who Frederic says will be there along with […]
Also posted in Alcohol, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Frederic March, Mental Health, Movies, Writers
In Other Hands – Published and Available
IN OTHER HANDS — In search of stimulating stories, George Thomas Clark interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade […]
Also posted in Alcohol, Drugs, Ecuador, Homeless, Human Trafficking, In Other Hands, Mexico, Poverty, Prostitution
Gypsies in Madrid
This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
Also posted in Cocaine, Drugs, English, George Thomas Clark, Gypsies, Heroin, Immigration, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Marijuana, Poverty, Racism, Theft
El Pipila
Go ahead, call me El Pípila, I do sound a bit like a turkey when I laugh and my freckled face suggests the eggs of that nutritious, earthbound bird. Come and see my statue on a hill overlooking Guanajuato. Admire my muscular legs, chest, and arms, the right of which holds high a torch I […]
Also posted in El Pipila, Guanajuato, Mexico
Impressions of Madrid
Would I ever want to live in Madrid? I didn’t know. I hadn’t been there so before going prepared vigorously, studying maps and scouring cyberspace and printing out stacks of material that bulged from three folders. In Madrid I annotated my reference material and encouraged local citizens to also do so. I jumped into dozens […]
Also posted in George Thomas Clark, Immigration, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Restaurants
Gallery Search in Madrid
This story is part of the collection “Paint it Blue”
Also posted in Art, Bergamot Station, George Thomas Clark, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Painters, Photography, Robert Maplethorpe, Surrealism
Prostitutes in Madrid
This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
Also posted in Drugs, George Thomas Clark, Immigration, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Prostitution
Dining at the Hotel Ritz in Madrid
The double-deck tour bus with top open had just completed its modern Madrid route north of downtown on shady Paseo del Prado into the chic Salamanca neighborhood where renowned Real Madrid plays soccer in a massive stadium and the most exclusive shops are found, and then back down Calle Serrano past several elegant foreign embassies […]
Also posted in Food, George Thomas Clark, Hotels, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Travel
Nazis Attack Karl Schmitt-Rottluff
This story is part of the collection Paint it Blue
Also posted in Adolf Hitler, Adolf Ziegler, Art, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Expressionism, George Thomas Clark, Karl Schmitt-Rottluff, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Nazis, Otto Dix, Painters
Franco Beholds Guernica
This story is part of the collection “Paint it Blue” To view “Guernica,” please click here Sources: Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid; Wikipedia – Guernica, Francisco Franco; Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.
Also posted in Art, Francisco Franco, George Thomas Clark, Guernica, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Pablo Picasso, Painters
The Young Ribera
This story is from the collection “Paint it Black”
Also posted in Art, George Thomas Clark, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Painters, Prado Museum, Ribera
Angry Subjects of Antonio Lopez in Madrid
This story is part of the collection “Paint it Black”
Also posted in Art, George Thomas Clark, Madrid, Madrid Vacation, Painters
