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Herbert Kuhner
Here’s Hemingway the pugilist: “I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. De Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless […]

Sharron Angle, Tea-Party Republican candidate for the Nevada Senate, wants to outlaw abortion universally, even in cases of rape and incest. She insists that a young girl raped by her father should know that “two wrongs don’t make a right. “Much good can come from a horrific situation like that,” Angle added. ‘Lemons can be […]

Herbert Kuhner
Herr Kuhner, if you do not withdraw your case, we will send the public health officer.
- Anonymous caller
Martin Luksan suggested I tackle this again, so here goes!
Yes, this is a trip down Memory Lane, but there is nothing sentimental about it. These were not the good old days. There’s no dabbing at the edges […]

Citizen Dichand
A great newspaper magnate has left us. He is irreplaceable. The Austrian media landscape will never be the same without him. His influence with luminaries and notables knew no bounds. Hans Dichand was a Brobdingnagian to their Lilliputians.
Dialogue Between Dichand and Lingens
I gave him (Dichand) a text in which I stated that Israel “targeted” […]

Otto Mühl’s Credo:
“The Friedrichshof Lord’s Prayer
Long live the whole!
I must resist temptation to sin against the whole
in sex as well as with my belongings
and in thought and deed.
Everything must be for the good of the whole.
I will terminate the program
that has been impressed on me
by strange ethical persons
and transform it into a social program
for the […]

Herbert Kuhner
There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy?!”
Robert Di Niro, Silvester […]

From Violence Under the Guise of Art
or Third Reich Recycling.
In 1977 Valie Export was brought to trial for having engaged in cruelty to animals and found guilty of having tied a canary to a perch. However the scalding of the birds with boiling wax, which had been filmed, came under the statute of limitations. […]