It was Richard!

He might have died back in 1883, but he still affects our society, and it’s a serious matter of life and death.


If it hadn’t been for Richard Wagner, a man with a pipe, a cycling woman and especially her poor dog would all be feeling a lot better. And yours truly would certainly feel a lot less guilty.

The Nazis loved to let their leather boots march right over Europe to his pace and rythm, and shamelessly they called him their's. Today people badmouth him for that, but a second later the same people happily march down the aisle for better, and for worse. All to the tones of his famous wedding march.

Richard himself...

The music of Richard Wagner’s was obviously made for marching. Therefore it’s also the natural choice for me in my everlasting crusade against carbs. This morning I was whipped fast forward by him in form of Siegfried’s Funeral March, and probarbly with an expression of the dead Siegfried himself on my face, I faced a crossing - and crossed it.

What I didn’t see was the Toyota containing a pipe smoking man with a hunch.

He saw me - and freaked out. (or more probably he saw a dead Wagnerian hero in big headphones)

Me. Or an almost dead Siegfried.

In order to avoid a full frontal fuck up he threw his Toyota towards a totally innocent woman on a bicycle. The woman only escaped the chain reaction of crashing by another crash - into her dog.

The poor thing yelled, the woman fell and the pipe smoking hunchback almost drove his Toyota into a fire post before he was able to regain control of the rioting vehicle.

The ones who say that "Wagner doesn’t affect our society any longer" don’t know what they are talking about.


It would never have happened with Abba.

// T.