Often they come back early, after cracking the dawn
Or they return late – one doesn’t know which it is.
The wee hours are on their side.
They mumble, bellow, roar or chant, hum hymns of delusion.
They litter in parks or on pavements, pee in public places.
Profundity has vacated them.
They fly in easy, with their best men on Fool’s day.
They view the city as their [...] Continue Reading…
This Ceramic ‘Conehead’ statuette was found by blog reader Oleg on the corner of Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße near Ostkreuz – it is in neighbourhood or Bezirk of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
‘Coneheads’ are an alien family, natives of the planet Remulak, who found themselves stranded on Earth and when questioned by Earthlings where they are from they inevitably reply that they are “from France”. Their [...] Continue Reading…
Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag – foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/
Kiwi Blog reader – New Zealander Ms Carmel Blanchard sent us this funny foto of ……….yes what can one say other than that we have a woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome in Berlin Mitte. [Schloßplatz, Mitte 10178 Berlin,[
She sent this picture on our www.ota-berlin.de blog website in [...] Continue Reading…
You know the psychological game whereby your focus determines what you see and how this object of attention or desire mulitplies before your eyes. Lately I seem to notice an increasing number of little colourful ‘Fix it again Tonys’ on Torstraße or thereabouts
‘Fix it again Tony’ was the term an L. A. mechanic used for the Fiat brand when I visited the [...] Continue Reading…
Foto recieved from OTA-Blog reader Bernard M. from the UK who wrote -
Saw this ‘Death to Swabians’ graffiti at Kollwitzplatz in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg last week.
It is a joke – and for Swabians from the south of Germany even funnier!
It is like reading ‘Down with Alaskans’ in New York …………or ‘Death to the Scots’ in London!
However it was written in chalk – [...] Continue Reading…
Pull up those PIGS!
Blog reader Theo sent in this picture on the Auguststraße in Berlin.
It is of a very large poster against the bank-bailout which are presently being planned in the EU and satirizing the present state of affairs – Merkel and Sarkozy pulling the strings.
These so-called PIIGS countries are the scapegoat, or have become the sacrificial lamb in the recent international financial crisis. [...] Continue Reading…
In Berlin, and probably elsewhere, when you hear an airplane you instinctively look up at it.
Sometimes when it is an old clunker it is probably the old JU 52/Ju 54 – the Junkers airplane which flies from Schoenefeld airport and flies tourists for a 15min Berlin tour. http://www.ju52rundflug.de/
Aerial advertising is another matter altogether – and while they are known along most of the [...] Continue Reading…
This interesting picture was sent in by Blog reader Etienne from France and he asked us what an colourful Indian Head neon-light is doing looking down onto Alexanderplatz………without any identification of what it is supposed to be!
Perhaps we should call it a North American native peoples head otherwise many may think of India!
And only certain tribes in North America had this type [...] Continue Reading…
Yes ANGRY CHICKEN indeed!
You can just envisage Colonel Saunders being cornered by 2000 angry Chickens.
As a name for a restaurant, in these times when most chickens and other birds are fowly treated – if you will excuse the pun- and at time when vegetarianism is gaining a foothold in even Germany - a bastion of dead-animal eaters, is questionable!
People would rather not know [...] Continue Reading…
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