Long lost tree stump library in prenzlauerberg found

I have been on Dr Reecard Farché (aka Anklepants )'s ever since seeing him perform at the network awesome party last summer. A few weeks back he had posted some interesting shirt designs so I wrote back saying I'd like one- alas I have no idea how to buy things on the Internet and I didn't want to give any money to Deutshe Post (especially since they recently sold the c/o Berlin building (aka postführamt) to an Israeli who is turning it into an wffing luxury hotel- blah blah- anyhowwwww) so: basically I want I buy a hand made shirt and give 100% of the proceeds to the guy who is selling it- but as it turns out there weren't any left in my size so the email exchange went back and forth for a few weeks until yesterday when I actually had the evening free after work and just trekked my arse up north in the snow getting off the U2 at senefelder Platz (sighing at the sight of cafe Chagall where we used to feed hangovers with their cheese breakfast platters back before the Pfefferberg was renovated- or eat borscht and drink beer by the fire in winter... Ja, I walked up kollwitzstrasse a few bloks and realized that I hadn't been in that exact part of town in YEARS- and it suddenly reminded me that I
Might be getting Near that tree stump library I had randomly found circa 2008-9, checked out the hobbit from
And then NeVER been able to find again- when when turning the corner onto Sredzkistraße suddenly - there it was! Long lost tree stump library! Now I can finally return the Hobbit!

Post Titled: The Box Talks! (and I don't know if I like what it seems to be saying...)
Went to the Mauerpark Flohmarkt yesterday (a huge outdoor flea market) and returned with two old East German
school posters (roll-out scroll style of paper-on-canvas, like and old map), one is a very abstract and colorful Leger-esgue cross-section of the inner gears adn chambers of a milking or
milk-processing machine. THe other is a detailed skeleton of Waterfrog. Not the friendliest posters, but fascinating.
Also bartered for a digital tv reciever, so we get a few channels now, although it burps digital squeaks and confusion from time to time, and sometimes can't find channels.
I watched Spongebob in german, which was pretty hilarious, and then a very intimidating documentary about how the Ausländerbehörde Polizei (Foreign Authority Office Police) follow people, interview all their neighbors and interrogate you intensely about your life if you marry a foreigner in Germany.
I mean, peraps there is a similar process in every country, but this was straight-up Stasi
how the Beamter interrogated the couple (separately), for example they asked:
"What did you do on Sunday?"
"Uhhm... woke up and had breakfast..."
"Did you cook for your husband?"
"Yes"
"What did you cook?"
"Eggs."
"How were the eggs cooked? Fried, poached, -?"
Etc.
Then they bring the other spouse in along and ask the same questons. Over the next days they interviewed all the neighbors in the apartment building with a photo of the couple:
"Have you seen this woman? Does she live here? How often does she come and go? Do you see her kissing this man?" ETC.
THEN they show up randomly to their apartment at 7 am to see if the
couple is really living together, they go through the bathroom, bedroom, closets to see
what kinds of things both people have there that validate thier both co-habitating the same space, i.s. toothbrush, clothing, personal hygene products,
clean and dirty laundry... pretty freakish, really.
IN some cases it was determined that the marriages were fake for purposes of citizenship,
hope things go more smoothly for us- as I noted we have 9 years worth of fotos and letters to back things up...

German television (or at least the dozen channels we get) thus far seems to be quite educational, documentary-style programming, arts and political content, good stuf- a bit dry at times.