12.3.06

Basteln

Yeah, it’s common to have a Hobbyraum here. Not cool, perhaps this should be a post on my other blog.


Popped into the toy store at the end of the block (it’s huge, there is another one just like it almost directly across the street). On the second floor is a rather large (about the size of 3 or 4 convenience stores) assortment of model parts, kits, miniature beer tent scenes, etc. Things you wouldn’t believe, as good as any museum...in terms of entertainment. Everything from Wassertürme


...to the house the pope was born in (25 bucks, 30 assembled...god knows how much with a couple of nuns and his 1999 Golf thrown in)


K. wanted to know if he would really be hovering in the clouds above, which strikes me as bitterly sarcastic (very unlike her) and unappreciative of the life-affirming hilarity of dieses Angebot. What with the man-hours it must take to manufacture all these things ("Made in Germany"), I’m surprised that anyone is unemployed here...let alone five million people. Put me in a frame of mind to spend the next ten years on the production of a teeny, tiny Wagner opera.

Next up: modernism off the rack, and how you can get a full page color ad in the German version of AD for 15,000 €.