A Few Words on Max Goldt From a Confessing Food Snapshooter

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:16:03 +0200

Life, by default, is not funny.

Yet it takes a Thesaurus Rex just a tiny twist of perspective to sell it to his audience as one hilarious adventure.

Pondering life's questions with Max Goldt leads to surprising conclusions.

Have you ever wondered why a certain breed of restaurant guests climb their chairs to take 5-megapixel pictures of their meals? Quite obviously to print giant jigsaw pizza puzzles. Bad luck though when an olive turns out to be a (now pumpkin-sized) beetle and one needs a word with Luigi next time around.

Aaaaah, the mysteries of mankind:

What have nerds been doing before there were computers?

Why, unlike other kitchen utilities, have modern pepper mills grown to the size of grave goods from the Phallocratic Age?

What's new with Katar, an emirate that sounds like a lung disease?

Doesn't the designer's name on your underwear make you feel like you're wearing a dead comrade's clothes?

And where is a society heading that employs its most creative thinkers in advertising?

Forget the tossing and turning and sleepless nights. Read the books, or even better have them read to you by Max Goldt and get them signed too. Instant enlightenment guaranteed. :)

And don't forget to read the (German) comic strips and buy a shirt.

PS: I'm not sure if any of his work has been translated to other languages. Someone should do it. Now!