Drawing a picture of Mohammed…

Well, I guess no one is able to not notice the recent news from around the globe about Muslims going on streets and protesting against the cartoon drawings which originally where published in Denmark. Embassies in Arab countries are attacked, stones and petrol bombs are thrown and people already got killed. Some might scratch their heads of the troubles that are caused by “just” a few drawings. People getting killed because of that? A real tragedy! Some others think that its not just the drawings, but a growing hate between the Christian and the Muslim world.

I know very little about the Muslim world, about their culture, ego, etc. I was raised in a catholic nation within a catholic family. So what I would like do is to take a close look at my own society. When someone criticizes Jesus or even God, or a cartoon is drawn about a Christian Icon, there is usually not a huge outcry among the Christians. So what does make ordinary Christians go mad? What makes them throw rocks, burn cars and damage buildings and hurt each other? When does the police have to step in and keep Christians from killing each other?

The answer is very simple. Well, religious stuff doesn’t really get the crowds going but sports does! Think about an important football (soccer) match between an English football team and Italian football Team. The news about the aftermath there look striking similar to the recent images from Middle East.

Probably you are baptized and never threw a rock or burned a car after a soccer match, and neither did I, but that’s what the news are talking about. The news are not talking about the Muslims that stay calm, CNN reports about those who show their anger. Just because we don’t understand why Arabs go berserk when European newspapers insult their religious founder doesn’t mean that we are any better. A lot of us don’t care about Jesus or God, even though we are baptized and raised in a Christian society, but its completely normal to burn down a car or throw a rock at another person after a lost football match. Because that’s what matters to some people in Europe, a ball made of leather.

Immaculate

Remember the movie “Mermaids” with Winona Ryder and Cher? When Ryder kisses that guy and thinks that he got her pregnant? She goes to see a doctor, who tells her that she is still a virgin and can’t be pregnant. Today I have something similar for you!

I get a lot of hits from search engines. People are looking for virtually everything on the web. But today, I could not help but to laugh out loud when I checked my stats and saw what someone entered into a search engine. Even more interesting for me, why would he or she go to on my homepage to get the answer? But back to that very simple, yet important question someone must have had last night:

“Can a woman get pregnant if she s cyber sex?”

Well, for future visitors to my blog, I’m happy to provide the answer, as I was awake when our teacher was babbling about sexual education in third grade. Luckily for all those who worry themselves at night, it is, without a doubt, NOT possible.

I can only hope that it wasn’t a serious enquire at all, but what if? Imagine a 18 year old (lets just keep it legal) girl after exhausting 20 minute of passion, lust and, hopefully for the girl, a wonderful orgasm in front of the computer. She starts to wonder if she wasn’t precautious enough. What if all her filthy typing got her pregnant?! OH my god – just hop from www.typeandmoan.com to www.google.com and see if there is an answer to that dreadful question that is digging deep inside her.

I hope that person found the answer last night.

Mozart 2006 – Resurrection

Mozart was born some 250 years ago in Salzburg and I wonder how he would feel about the year 2006. Just yesterday I watched a documentation on Austrian TV that claimed to unravel the truth about the skull of Mozart. There was a lot of hype about the show as the skull has been in the center of speculations ever since it appeared and the big question always was “Is it for real?”. Well, the TV show promised to bring a final answer to the question in true CSI style.

I guess Mozart would turn over in his grave if he’d knew what they did to his ancestors for the sake of this “grave-entertainment”. Apparently that’s exactly what the forensic scientist did. The dug up a few of Mozart’s presumed relatives, only to find out that no one of the “Mozarts” in the family grave was related to each other, and they did not match the DNA extracted from the skull or the hair-samples from – did you know his full name – Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus – Mozart!

So finally, there is the ultimate answer, that we know nothing, that the mystery became even bigger and that we have to wait another 50 years till the 300 year anniversary.

Maybe that’s when the scientist get permission to dig up Mozarts sister, Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart (Nannerl) at the St. Peter’s cemetery (which did not gave permission of an exhumation of her body this time), take samples from her bones and share once and for all the truth about the skull of Mozart.

But I’m sure more money is made by not knowing the truth rather then having a final solution. So enjoy your Mozart liquor, your Mozart balls, Mozart beer and whatever clever merchandise products will appear in the Mozart year 2006!

Conan vs Austria

We Austrians are very proud of Arnold Schwarzenegger, no one else from our country had such an remarkable career as the styrian Oak. Though, there was one, I always forget his name, but I think he even made it on the front page of Time Magazin as person of the year. I think they call him the Upper Austrian brownie, but I could be wrong… But for good reasons we are not very proud of that guy and pretend that he was German…

Well, but back to Arnie, whos actions remind me of one of Britney Spears songs these days. Ooops, I did it again… But this is a very serious topic and I shouldn’t joke about. No clemency for Stanley “Tookie” Williams, a former Gang leader turned Child-book writer. Arnold was the last chance for Mr. Williams to be spared from a lethal injection. But Arnie was elected by the people of California and the people of Californa are pro Death peanlity (roughly 70 %) so there was little he could do (some people say because he wants to run for re-election).

Which brings me back to Austria, arguably his biggest fan club! Some over here where so proud of their most famous son, the even named a sport stadium after him, back in the old days, when he was running around with big guns, terminating bad guys on the silver screen rather then by signing a piece of paper. What a coincicdence… The pen is mightier the the swoard!

But since Arnie became Governator some Austrians are mad at him for doing what he has always done and they want the stadium renamed. A sport stadium can’t carry the name of a real killer, someone who is pro death penalty. But they are too late, Arnie drew his guns faster (and that’s what he is best in) and the Terminator told the major of Graz to find a new name for the sports stadium.

And today the Austrian green party lost their only chance to appear on the international news and make some noise about topics that are out of their league.