Old Armory

Here's a shot of the old Armory in the Nuremberg Altstadt. I don't have much in the way of information about it, but it's been around since at least the early 1700's as evidenced by this copperplate etching from 1723. The building was partially destroyed in WWII and has been rebuilt. These days, it's a police substation.

My Blog's All Grown Up!

I knew this guy who insisted that you didn't "make it" in the business world until somebody took (or at least threatened to take) legal action against you-- at that point you were officially a threat. So I guess I'm big-time now. Apparently this little online outpost of mine was upsetting enough to EMI Music Distribution that a post I wrote a couple days ago was pulled down without my knowledge or consent. I received a service violation notice this evening from Blogger.com telling me that I was airing copyrighted material, and that I couldn't show it. What they were referring to was a video of a 28-year old song. EMI, If you are reading this... wow, don't you guys have something better to do, like working to outlaw Auto Tune and finding good unsigned bands? But anyways, the idea always was to introduce the band and a great song to more people, get the curious to maybe buy a CD from these guys (something that I, in fact, did myself last week) or buy the tune digitally, perhaps even pick up a book written by the former frontman (something I still plan to do, bad taste in my mouth notwithstanding). Not stealing fellas-- helping. Get it right.

Right Name, Wrong Specialty

And... completing the string of puerile posts we have this photo from my physician's building. Does anyone need more of a translation than "Arzt" = Doctor? Didn't think so. Not much else to say other than these guys would have a ball riffing on this.

One More

I thought I had gone through all of the racier photos (all 3 of them!) in my folder this week, but may as well get all of these out at the same time. Here's another shot from our summer daytrip to Ingolstadt, a sleepy university town and world HQ of Audi with a population of 125,000. Presumably, this shop is more efficient at selling smut than its German or Austrian brethren. As an aside, I've detected a distinct dislike between the Swiss and Germans-- one guy I know opined that friction exists because "The Swiss are what the Germans only wish they were" (i.e. punctual, efficient). Whatever. It's still a strange name for a store.

Grounded

Often in error; never in doubt" is my motto, but I would like to backtrack on a recent post I made about flight options from Copenhagen to Nuremberg.

If I am understanding this correctly, SAS Airlines' subsidiary Cimber will not, in fact be flying the route as was previously announced. That being said, it still appears to be all systems go (sorry, link in German only) for SAS codeshare partner OLT to fly this route starting on 2 November. No reasons are being given, and it's the airlines' perogative to alter tentative plans up to the day of the launch, though I suspect one airline may be enough for now, and perhaps SAS is taking a wait-and-see approach to this.

Pervy Germans

Completing the inadvertent theme of my adoptive countrymen's ribaldry over the last few days, here's a poster I photographed in Munich a few months back. While adverts like these may pop up in places like independent newspapers, clubs, and the flyers those skeevy guys hand out in front of Vegas hotels back in the States, it should be noted that this was photographed about a block from the art museum in a tony part of a city of 1.4 million. Ads of this type are so common that it's really not a big deal here-- attitudes towards sexuality in Germany (and Europe in general) are notably relaxed, bordering on blasé. The irony here is the seeming disconnect between posters like this and the fact that Bavaria is generally considered one of the more conservative regions of the country.

Saucy Germans

This billboard for the Nuremberg city playhouse is all over town (and I believe those are tiny cake figurines). Translated, it means "The new playhouse: 8 premieres in 3 weeks! Off to paradise!" That's showbiz, I guess. Stuff like this doesn't make anybody bat an eye here-- it takes a lot more to get a rise out of Johann Citizen.