Mail Received - Carina Granlund

[xx Jones]

 

A special delivery arrived from Finland, a thick and sturdy cardboard envelope, which lies heavy in your hand. The envelope seems to invite or recall a journey, a plane trip, perhaps a christmas holiday? The blue and yellow tape, bold and confident, only slightly reveals some black and white images beneath. In the package Carina included a goodie, a page which seems to be torn from an old book, with the swimming pool and grounds of the Hotel Washington in Panama. Fantastic picture, it is hard to convey the feeling of the old paper and print. Ah, and now we get a hint to where the journey is going: to the Americas. The last piece is a transfer image, a technique where Carina is a master. It is a juxaposition of JFK and some richly layed banquet. On a note on the back Carina refers to Erni Bär, and the slogan "Feed Art to the World." I agree - give food, cake and art to all people! Thank you muchly, Carina!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Thanks! Will Wiki him later. Cohn The Bandit is leader of the European Green Party in the EuroParliament. What a sell out!

I wonder what Dieter K is doing now, and if he is as weird as, well, Our Very Own Banana Lady Is and Was.

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bon appetit!

Ah Bar und Rudi Dutschke.

I chaired a conference session in Vienna a couple of years back and Daniel Cohn-Bendit was on the panel. Am I right in thinking that he was a German then? Whatever, he has become a totally boring and predictable 'system man'.

You have snow, and we have spring sunshine, and I much prefer the latter; Regards,Val

[Valentine Mark Herman]

I have it on very good authority from High Level sources in the White House that JFK thought long and hard about where he was going to go in the Federal Republic (as it was) and what he would say.

He originally wanted to go to Hamburg, and say "Ich bin ein Hamburger", but his senior adviser -- Ronald McDonald -- didn't think that that was a very good idea.

So he considered making his Big Speech in Frankfurt, which would have included the immortal phrase "Ich bin ein Frankfurter", but when another of his policy advisors told him that there was a Supreme Court Justice called Felix Frankfurter, this was also dropped. As was the mustard. And the pickle.

Munchengladbach was next on the list, but Country Joe McDonald and his Band had just played there. Jo tried to get his audience involved with a German version of his "F-I-S-H' chant ("What do you get?") but by the time it had got to the final B-A-C-H most of the audience had forgotten the M-U-N, and the Band had gone home.

So JFK went to Berlin, and Erni can tell you all about it.

The End.

Val