tue october 28 2003 full coverage

después de lo de terminator en california, con el consiguiente castigo divino, no esperaba más sorpresas (lo del domingo es una catástrofe más que una sorpresa). esta mañana, sin embargo, me he encontrado con que un descendiente del conde drácula! ha ganado unas elecciones en el distrito de schenkendorf, berlín. el simpático chupasangre tiene 61 añitos y vive en un castillo en las afueras de la localidad. he tratado de obtener más información en la red y me he encontrado de todo. lo primero ha sido en usajews.com, un autodeclarado y sumamente curioso tabloide diario, que defendía al pobre anciano, porque según parece los antisemitas! le quieren echar de la tienda de antiguedades que regenta y expulsarle del pueblo con antorchas encendidas. lo siguiente es que el pobre vampiro no tiene descendencia y se le ha pasado un poco el arroz, así que ahora tiene que adoptar un crío. pero no quiere un cualquiera, sino un príncipe o princesa, como memyself. aquí van unas cuantas reseñas, para quien sepa sajón. yo si fuera vosotros iría expiando mis pecados. el apocalipsis es inminente. lo malo de ser un profeta agorero es que si no tienes razón te llaman gilipollas y si tienes razón lo mejor que te puede pasar es que te caiga encima el cometa halley. ah, para terminar, los rolling stones, que no han terminado de forrarse, van a sacar sus memorias oficiales y aprovechan para poner a caldo a brian jones, que al menos tuvo la decencia de morirse antes de hacer negocio con sus álbumes de fotos. gosh, se me olvidaba: al actor principal de la pasión de cristo, de mel gibson (la película de su vida ), le ha caído otro rayo en la cabeza durante el rodaje. gehová tiene poca paciencia últimamente. yo de vosotros andaría con ojo.

tengo que repetir la cita de don mclean, no me puedo contener.

<<the three persons i admire most, the father, the son and the holy ghost, they took the last train to the coast, the day the music died>>
don mclean


WWW.USAJEWS.COM:

SCHENKENDORF, Germany--Count Dracula, an affable antiques dealer living in a castle near Berlin, is being driven out of Germany--not with garlic, crucifixes or sunshine, but by neo-Nazi arsonists and intransigent local bureaucrats. The 60-year-old Berlin native, an adopted descendant of the Romanian royal family, has turned his famous name into a thriving restaurant, beer garden and antiques business in a rural hamlet south of Berlin.
(L.A. Times)

WWW.APOLOGETICSINDEX.ORG/NEWS/AN201017:

The count, alias Ottomar Rudolphe Vlad Dracula, or Prince Kretzulesco to friends, has been forced to flee his castle in a German village after neo-Nazi death threats and arson attacks. The scion of Transylvania's most famous clan, who has already persuaded thousands of Germans to give blood, is now banking on helping British blood donation chiefs, once he convinces them he can offer more than a bite on the neck.

The 60-year-old prince has lived in the village of Schenkendorf in the state of Brandenburg for six years and has turned his Castle Dracula into a tourist attraction, bringing money to the economically depressed region in former East Germany. But far from the locals counting their blessings, Dracula says he is victimised by people who have tried to set his castle on fire 10 times and daubed swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans on the walls. He believes he may have upset neo-Nazi youths because his ancestors are connected with non-Christian activities.

Because of death threats he is packing up. ''I am frightened,'' he said. ''I don't feel secure in my own castle, and the grounds, at 160,000 square metres, are simply too big to make secure from people determined to break in.
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He was persuaded to take part in collecting blood by the German Red Cross, which decided that Dracula would be the perfect person to bring glamour and attention to the need for donors. Since then parties at Castle Dracula have regularly attracted more than 12,000 guests who make financial as well as blood donations to the last of the Dracula dynasty...