Harry´s Blog

from The Assembly-Line Prince
a novel by Herbert Kuhner
I was in the doldrums when Herby’s call came. He had a film Job for me. I was to do the limericks for Hans Fantel’s new sexcapade The Madam’s Hussar. I would also double as English speech coach. Herby was the hussar’s adjunct. The cast was international (and […]

Max
Max has left us at the age of 83.
He started off with Dizzy and Bird
in the Forties.
Bebop was the name of the game.
Then Max went on into the Realm of Cool
and he never stopped moving.
Here are he is in his own words:
“You can’t write the same book twice.
Though I’ve been in historic musical situations,
I […]

There’s a man who shot off his mouth for seven long years in Austria. There are others who have done it for longer, but not under the circumstances. The guy I’m talking about did it between 1938 and 1945. At the time Austria was not Austria, but “Ostmark.” So that makes a difference. By doing […]

We believe in redemption,
and a reformed enemy can
become a good friend.
It’s better to have a friend
than an enemy.
Or is it?
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was our enemy,
but now he’s our friend
He may have orchestrated
the downing of PanAm passenger jet
over Lockerbie way back in ‘88
and other acts of terror in bygone days.
but Muammar is our friend now,
and we’re […]

Commemorates the Victims of the Allied Bombing during World War II on May 8, 2004 at Hero’s Square in Vienna
According to Herr Strache the bombing of German cities by the Allies was a crime. If that is the case, then it must follow that the bombing of Geurnica, Rotterdam, Warsaw, London, Coventry and so on […]

There is an official Committee whose task is to evaluate the artistic works of the late great Andy Warhole. In other words, the Committee separates the wheat from the chaff and sets a price on the former. Of course there is no real chaff since everything is wheat, but some of the wheat is worth […]

I always loved Campbell’s Tomato Soup. When I was a child, my mother used to serve it to me mixed with milk and with a boiled potato in it. It was my favorite soup dish and I never got tired of eating it. Today I have sentimental attachment to it, although I now prefer Heinz […]

Harry Kuhner reads one of his great Jazz Poems about Billie Holiday and Lester Young. Taped live in Vienna 1999. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Let’s say that the Islamists knocked Europe out
and neutralized the United States!
Let’s say they took over the UN
and established a world government
with and Islamist Constitution
and the Sharia as a code of law!
There would be public whippings, amputations,
hangings and stoning.
We’d have book burnings
and museums would be set alight.
There’d be no art, no music, no films […]

After a Danish newspaper had published
cartoons lampooning Islamism,
the Sunnis and Shiites united
to go on the rampage against all infidels.
When the dust settled and the fires went out,
they went back to blowing up each other’s mosques.
- Herbert Kuhner

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Nazi Germany started saturation bombing in a war situation. Women and children were killed “indirectly.”
The Allies responded.
The Nazis also killed women and children directly in death factories outside of a war situation.
The Islamists kill woman and children.
They claim they are in a war situation, and they are right.
The motives originally stated were the destruction of […]

(Retrospective Salzburg 2006)
- Herbert Kuhner
“The cat is out of the bag:
Christoph Schlingensief’s ‘Animatograf’ Number six
can be seen since Saturday afternoon
at the Museum der Moderne on Mönchsberg
in Salzburg: ‘Chickenballs: Testicle Park.’
is part of the Summer Exhibit
Titled ‘Les Grands Spectacles II’”
“Mozart plays with his sex organ, etc., etc., etc!”
“Schlingensief personally declared
at the opening of the exhibit
that it […]