Television fire place in Prenzlauer Berg
There's nothing tackier than a television basking a cathode fireplace around Christmas time, but I spotted this old Zenith spitting embers and burning logs at the junta-like Scotch and Sofa in Prenzlauer Berg (do not go for the scotch selection, which is meager: go to make out in the cavernous, sofa-strewn basement), and for once did not seize up in a full body seizure, the paroxysms of which formed my body's natural allergenic reaction to low-brow Yuletide schmaltziness.
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My family enjoys Christmas together on Christmas Eve, so historically Christmas Day for me is a wonderfully lazy affair involving lying on the couch in my PJs while playing with new Christmas toys. A couple of years back I had just gotten an HDTV and had hooked up my HD cable service, and I was ready to give my new toy a vigorous testing. The only thing in actual high definition on Comcast's sixteen HD channels was nine continuous hours of a Yule log burning in a fireplace. Way to ruin Christmas Comcast.
Brownlee skipped the part explaning that Prenzlauer Berg is a suburb in Berlin. But I guess the fanboys already knew. I suppose it's pretty empty there right now, as all the inhabitants are celebrating christmas with their families elsewhere. Like me.
Hold on. Scotch & Sofa, all cocktails €3,50 before 19:30. Reasonable prices after that. Good selection, too. Red wines aren't exactly cheap but you get a huge glass and the quality is very decent.
I didn't even know they sold Scotch, never looked at it that way...
Sunday nights are Elvis night, if they still do that. They screen a movie and if you ask nicely they might set it to Originalsprache. Saturdays usually have a DJ spinning old garage or 60s stuff, lots of fun.
They also have a TV like that where you can see a cctv cam of the downstairs area.
(I've been there and liked it, can you tell?)
CRTs displaying video of real fire is only as schmaltzy (hooray for Yiddish during the Christmas/Hanukkah overlap!) as William Gibson's opener of
Also, clearly I need to spend more time living in Berlin.