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Greetings Dork!

Big shout out to Dork Zygotian, who recently googled the Bruner Blog and read it cover to cover and wrote in with a long missive, his first in a while. Dork and I go way back, to late 1990, to be precise. Budapest Week was actually conceived over a joint of Dork weed, as Steve likes to point out. Wonder if it made a difference to the fate of the poor little pub that it was such raggy-ass dope (albeit the best one could grow along the roadside back then). Dork became a key player at the paper for many years, editing the vaunted Style section for while fairly early on, before I fired him once or twice. He always wrote the most brilliantly hilarious opinion pieces the paper ever published.

In his note, Dork makes few brief political comments on my earlier posting about the recent Socialist (MSZP) election victory in Hungary and defeat of nationalist egomaniac former Fidesz party prime minister Viktor Orban:

So I read through the thing, and found the Hungarian election rant amusing.
You should check the news here now. Basically, Fidesz is acting like they
didn’t lose the election and setting up “civic committees” to do street
demos and harrass MSZP officials in public. You can even go to
OrbanViktor.hu and read how Orban “is, naturally, still the prime
minister in our hearts.” Somebody ought to take the time to tear Vikibacsi
a new a-hole concerning his post election anti-democratic antics. Also,
there is a movement to compensate voted-out Fidesz politicians and civil
servansts who “have been victimized and lost their jobs because of their
political views,” i.e., they were voted out. This ain’t joking, this is in
the parliament care of Repassy Robert.

Dork vows that he is not interested in blogging, which is a huge mistake, as it would be the funniest blog on the Net, hands down. But he is a rather stubborn character, so I don’t know how easily I can wear him down. I’ll see if Steve has some of his old columns backed up that I’ll repost here.

Instead of applying his brilliant craft of writing the funniest stuff in Eastern Europe, Dork is running a publication he’s so ashamed of I’ll omit all identfying details: “Absolutely the worst job since I was a rat handler in Boston at a lab.” That and he continues to perform with his klezmer and Eastern European folk band around Europe, with a U.S. tour this summer in the offing.

FYI, DorkZygotian.com is an unregistered domain.

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