Charles The Menage

Amsterdam, 22 Aug. 2013.

I am in my own little kingdom again, packing production, making Indian Games by the sackfull but not really paying much heed to the world around me, customers coming over with these days not so doomed Euros in the tourist hand, no way I wanna stop the Indian Games production train by Gratis demos that cost treasured time and energy, a game made is a game sold after all in these high season days, long queue of foreigner tourists every day waiting to see that poor Jewish girl's hiding place during the Nasi's reign of terror nearly seventy years ago...

Hi Hao, or maybe HELLO in some Chinese dialect, needless to say it is Charles, the rich daddy's spoiled brat living around the corner onn the Keizersgracht, living it up on daddy's money, buying friendship and "respect" with the neighborhood's population of eternal losers, alcoholics and druggies from the Amsterdam city centre whose main interest in life is their cherished cheap Appie Heyn lukewarm beer, tabaco and crack which all comes cheap here in good old Mokum and is supplied free of charge by the local taxpayer's dough, read the social welfare department here who even puts these street crappers in social projects rewarding them with even more taxpayer's dough and Cervezitas Gratuitas...hard to believe but then this is Holland where the Dutch Cuddle Culture is legendary...

No Bonus for my hard voluntary work at the petting zoo two days a week, nobody paying for my dentist bills or my street licence here at the Numero Uno tourist hotspot in  the Dutch capital, no city council project helping me out with bills and supermarket needs though rumour has it there is even a subsidy for Mulimas who wanna learn how to fold head scarves, no kidding here...

And then, on top of all this is this rich man´s spoiled brat who likes to buy respect and attention with the city´s most dirty and lost, disturbing my hard work and metal peace, bragging about his latest trip to Tokio - paid by Dad´s money, remember - and his knowledge of Asian tongues like Chinese and Japanese...

Yeah, I can really do without Charles The Menace today..