Slumming It With Santa
Bad Santa street art in Ostkreuz There are dozens of Christmas markets (known as 'Weihnachtsmarkt' in Germany) in and around Berlin where a person can sample fine chocolates, buy luxurious doilies and perch on outdoor stools under a gas heater while sipping hot cocktails. I am not going to talk about any of them in this entry. No - this entry is about the kinds of places Santa goes after a hard day of waving at tourists to dwell on more pressing themes like gentrification, greed and Guantanomo Bay, while chugging a Sterny. There is a reason why he wears red and black after all, and it's not to please his corporate masters at Coca-Cola. Read on for a shortlist of the places that Santa goes to when he feels like stuffing a lump of coal in some capitalist's stocking... They can't afford Christmas turkey dinner, so the organizers of the Cult of the Personality: Commercial Christmas Special at Food/ZMF are going to 'eat the rich' instead. Every prod...