How come it’s always the birthday entries that make me want to write my wittiest entries? Maybe because I feel that yet another year has gone by without me being voted Funniest Man Of The Year? Or because I still haven’t been chosen to host the Oscars?
Whatever it is, please make it stop. I don’t want to be witty on my birthday. I just want to grow old with dignity.
PS: Count the holes. Yes, exactly 26 candles. How’s that for a birthday cake?
Two days ago, my girlfriend and I decided to flee the scorching heat of our apartment and have a drink at a cafe before dinner.
Well, as we were half-way through our beers, a woman came up to us and asked us if we’d be interested in free tickets to a stand-up comedian’s show that was to take place half an hour later at the theater next to the cafe. Maybe the fact that she had to go from table to table in order to get rid of her excess tickets should have been a hint.
Oh well. We went in there, it was reasonably cool (if you’ve ever been to our apartment, you’ll understand that cool rooms are just about the only thing we’re looking for these days), and we awaited the performance of the mistery man, mildly content over our good luck as receivers of free tickets to an otherwise rather expensive show.
Now, I don’t want to go into detail about the show itself, but I still don’t understand why anyone would ever let this guy on stage. The program was riddled with the oldest and worst jokes, subsequently producing not much else than disgust and boredom.
We left during the intermission, and I pity everyone who actually paid 19,50 € to see this guy.
Yesterday, in the course of an extraordinary Sunday which, among other things, was filled with breakfast at the MuseumsQuartier Wien and a visit to the MuMoK, we went and saw “We feed the world”, a documentary exploring, among other things, the origin of the food we consume here in Austria.
It’s very well made, and in contrast to other popular documentaries, is less flashy, takes its time to tell the various stories, and seems quite sincere overall. It contained some world-class interviews, and one of the people who seemed like a really sensible, and yes, even cool person was Jean Ziegler, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He, obviously, is not afraid to speak up. I guess if there were more people like him around, the world would look quite a bit different today (apart from the fact that there would be quite a few people around who’d look a lot like Jean Ziegler, which in turn would puzzle quite a few other people…but let’s not go there).
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