February 2012
170 posts
Overcoming the Plateau: Transitiv und Intransitiv →
otpdeutsch:
stehlen = to steal something (transitiv)
bestehlen = to steal someone (intransitiv)
Ich habe das Auto gestohlen. = I stole the car. (transitiv)
Der Musiklehrer hat die Mitschüler aus der ersten Klasse bestohlen. = The music teacher stole the first grade students. (intransitiv)
erschrecken…
This makes my head explode. I think about the erschreckt/erschrocken business in...
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: Barney Rosset,... →
lareviewofbooks:
Barney Rosset, the publisher of Grove Press and The Evergreen Review, who fought censorship in famous legal battles over the publication of Lady Chatterly’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer, is dead at 89. Rosset introduced American readers to Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Octavio Paz, Pablo…
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via faerielandsforlorn)
“Object sexual penetration is a serious sex crime in Virginia. It is very...”
– David Englin, Democratic delegate from Virginia • Explaining the new tactic taken by Democrats in Virginia, in their effort against a bill expected to pass the state legislature that could mandate unwanted, penetrative ultrasounds for women seeking abortions. That happening under any other...
Go listen to what Terry O’Neil, the president of N.O.W., is saying about the Virginia bill on the Ed Show.
Talking about the new FBI definition of rape as applied to the bill. Non-consensual vaginal penetration, against the will of the woman? Yup. Sounds like rape.
OY. The needs to be TALKED ABOUT OPENLY as much/as often as possible so people are aware and informed about what’s...
Ultrasound Abortion Bill Nears Vote in Virginia →
RAGE.
The legal news editor from Slate who was on Rachel Maddow this evening had a lot of good stuff to stay about just how condescending this is, in the oh poor ladies, you are not cognitively capable of knowing what you’re doing and making your own decisions, you just don’t get it, etc etc sort of way.
According to the article:
-the law would ”require that a printout of...
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183. (via futureabortiondoctor)
wisdom.
“I miss holding my breath.”
– Mary Ruefle, from “Elegy for a Game” (via proustitute)
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis (via human-voices)
wisdom from Patrick, who I am going to call today, even if by time I call it will no longer technically be today where he is.
THE URGE TO READ DER MEISTER UND MARGARITA NON-STOP FOREVER IS JUST TOO STRONG TO RESIST. And it is kind of like talking to Patrick,...
Today is one of those days when all I want to do is burrow into a German Studies/Arts Education/History/Artsy Thingz PhD program and never, ever reemerge.
ICONOGRAPHY RESEARCH ON TUMBLR. I want to take LS’s Theatre Iconography class. Also Intro to Grad Studies, and Cabaret in History and Performance, again, and…
Excuse me while I continue to roll around in 19th/20th century German...
