I'm a big Seven Days fan, especially for the ocassional blasts from the past:

Reddy or not: We at 7 Days certainly miss the days when we had Hans Hagen to kick around. Berkeleyans, of course, will remember the late landlord as the kooky German who tried to circumvent rent control by declaring his apartment building a church with "followers" who paid to live there. Some of the features of the sex-obsessed Sebastian Kneipp Water Church included a statue of a phallus atop his apartment building that cleverly employed a garden hose to simulate ejaculation, and a copulation chamber where one was encouraged to sing "California Here I Come" while completing the deed. Hagen so detested rent control regulators that one time he got down on all fours and bleated like a goat when a hearing examiner inspected the property. Hagen kept the Rent Board tied up in administrative appeals and litigation for more than a decade. Ah, good times, good times.

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