Iacocca who ?

My friend Saga was wondering what my husband says about my blogging. That Saga asks this is because she still after all these years doesn’t know my husband. We don’t see each other that often and whenever we do, the time is too precious for small talk; we go right into the laughing business. We are rolling on the floor laughing (totally harmless in Denmark as this is a flat country, more dangerous at Saga’s garden in Finland as her house is on top of a hill) while our husbands are watching helpless by and wondering how much did they sin in their earlier lives to deserve these wackos as wives.

For Saga’s and everybody else’s information, don’t worry, my husband doesn’t read my blog. He only reads very boring stuff like Berlingske, Børsen and Computerworld. He would never touch Tolstoy or Flaubert, and Pushkin he thinks is a Russian browser that never really made it in the west. The only books he reads are biographies, but boring people’s biographies. Like General Franco’s, Yamani’s or Lee Iacocca’s. Yes, who the hell is Lee Iacocca? I am sure not even his mother knows who he is.

This summer he was reading J.F.Kennedy’s biography and I thought, finally, some good stuff. I asked him to tell me when the part with Marilyn Monroe comes, and indeed, on the page 467 there was a line: “That year Kennedy was assumed to have a relationship with the actress Marilyn Monroe.” That’s it? Is one line all what Norma Jean gets on JFK’s biography? I have read Marilyn Monroe’s biography and I know that there is lot more to JFK and Norma Jean than just one line. On Norma Jean’s behalf I will as revenge write a book called “The New American History” and on the page 467 one can read “That year the fabulous actress Marilyn Monroe had an affair with an American president whom unfortunately nobody remembers the name of”.