Death Star on a spike

How-dee, blogosphere! Name’s Fernsehturm. Got any room for another bloke with words to spare and time to give?

Let’s take a look around here…looks nice…room for R.I.C.O. to play…lots of amenities…nice view…uh huh….

I’ll likely post some stuff that educates as it entertains. Marinates while you sleep. Tingles as it cleans. There’ll also be lots of stupid stuff and random rants. If you know me in person this will not come as much of a surprise.

Where to start?

Ah hah! What’s a fernsehturm?

First of all, to those non-German speakers it’s pronounced “Fairn-zay-toorm”.

I took a trip to a freshly reunited Germany back in 1995. When in Berlin, I was greeted with a rather interesting sight. Standing oh so tall and ugly (kinda like me) was this.

Phallic? Perhaps. I prefer to think of it one of the local name, “Death Star on a spike”. Why do I like it so much? Not sure. It’s sort of a nasty concrete and disco ball Communist Space Needle thing. Perhaps that’s a topic for future blog.

Thanks floatingeyeball.com for the gentle prodding to get this going. The eyeball knows all…float on…

You’ll hear from me soon…