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.

[#1 posted by Enochrewt , December 23, 2008 11:07 AM]

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.

[#2 posted by schönberger , December 23, 2008 2:35 PM]

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.

[#3 posted by remmelt , December 25, 2008 10:11 AM]

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?)

[#4 posted by zuzu , December 25, 2008 11:30 AM]

CRTs displaying video of real fire is only as schmaltzy (hooray for Yiddish during the Christmas/Hanukkah overlap!) as William Gibson's opener of

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel

[#5 posted by zuzu , December 25, 2008 11:33 AM]

Also, clearly I need to spend more time living in Berlin.