Q: In Japan, do they have fast-food shops like Subway, Pizza Hut, Hardee's, and Burger King?

A: Japan has many fast-food shops, especially in Tokyo and other big cities, both foreign - like the ones listed above, though Hardee's hasn't made it to Japan yet - and domestic, like Freshness Burger, Mos Burger, and Lotteria. McDonald's, for example, has over 3,000 shops across Japan.

I´m going to Tokyo on Monday.

Erkka told me about it this summer when we were having dinner in a bar outside his father-in-law's lace factory in Shenzen but I couldn't believe him. China has a fleet of mobile execution units. Sure, it's clinical and modern to die in a van by lethal injection compared to traditional gunshots. Kang Zhongwen, the designer of the death van says it promotes human rights.

We are trying to raise money to buy one of them, the smallest model is around €30.000 but I want all the extras like air conditioning, a GPS navigator, leather seats, alloy wheels and a beer can holder. Our idea is to ship the vehicle to Europe and make a Grand Tour in June: Kassel, Venice, Münster and Basel.

I lectured at Universidad Europea in Madrid. I was extremely nervous before leaving home and scratched my car's wing mirror to another car. Actually, I wasn't jumpy for speaking at the university but for driving to Madrid's endless labyrinth peripheries.

First, I headed to Majadahonda to pick up Carlos at some hospital and then to Villaviciosa de Odón where the university campus is located. This was the first time I seriously wanted to have a GPS navigator. Finally, I arrived 30 minutes late - from my Nordic point of view it sounds disastrous but maybe in Spain it's just normal.

The lecture was fine. There were over 20 students, not like when I was studying and the professors had to beg students to attend famous visiting artists' lectures. In the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki you could have a true art star speaking and two students listening.

The best thing was that the students asked me difficult questions like about the contradictory of forming part of global capitalist market and same time criticizing it. I didn't tell that in reality I hardly sell anything.

Today, I went to Madrid to speak on radio. I told about my work and I also made clear my political ideas about Spain and it's constitutional monarchy, hard core capitalism and stale imperialism. I'm an immigrant and can't vote, so I have to try to influence the people with full civil rights.

I had lunch at Burger King. I ordered the burger which has been denounced by the Minister of Health and Consumption because it's too big. It was good publicity for Burger King - without it I would have chosen something else, probably something much lighter.

Double Whopper XXL with double cheese and quadruple bacon was big but nothing compared with Texas fast food chain Whataburger's Triple Meat. That one I couldn't finish. In the Whopper, the problem wasn't the trans fats but salt - I've drank liters of water and I'm still thirsty.

By the way, in one Stewart Home novel London art stars eat at Burger King.

I'm the fastest artist in Southwestern Europe. The video Burning Flags was filmed today at noon and 9 p.m. it was on my web site. To be honest, I'm not fast, it's my web wizard Niina who is fast. And she is based in Prussia.

My cinematographic studio was the stable Marta and Alvaro are building for their horses. Pedro had some doubt if it's illegal what we were doing and, actually, it is in many countries. Also, printing paper flags for commercial purposes can be forbidden by law.

In the fiesta of our village the Plaza (of Generalissimo Francisco Franco) is decorated with small flags of postindustrial countries. After the parties they stay up there for weeks, dirty and broken.