| Saturday, December 26th, 2009 |
sam80853
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12:31p |
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sam80853
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12:20p |
I'm a sad excuse of a Dr. Who fan,...
...yes I am. I need some lessons in Gallifreyan history. I've only ever seen Nine and Ten so I only know the basics of what happened on/to Gallifrey. But with the events in "The End of Time" I'm wondering why the Time Lords want to come back if they certainly should know that their time is over... Current Mood:  curious |
| Friday, December 25th, 2009 |
sam80853
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8:07p |
Is it really 'The End of Time'?
Wilf rocks! RTD better not kill him... I'm not sure about the rest. Maybe you shall ask me later when I've stopped crying - this is going to be a disaster next week.
LONG LIVE THE DOCTOR!!!
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primroseburrows
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9:20a |
Dear Seekrit Santa, I love my story! It's everything I wanted, with lots of unexpected surpises thrown in! I'll be commenting directly later, on account of for some reason my friend's computer doesn't let me log in with openID and also because with all the Christmas stuff I won't have time to do it justice. I did want to say thank you, thank you so much! :D :D :D Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
truepenny
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9:08p |
On Faith
My inter-season episode, " On Faith," is live at Shadow Unit. It's a standalone story, so if you've been wanting to check out Shadow Unit, it might be a good place to start. And if you're already reading Shadow Unit, well, I hope you like it. |
primroseburrows
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8:54p |
Even though I ended up with the evening off (whee!), I still seem to be too busy to make a real post, or even be near my keyboard for more than a couple of minutes at a time. But! This isn't bad for you, because I now present my second Christmas Eve gift, courtesy of my boyfriend: Current Mood:  tired |
sam80853
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11:32a |
<3
Merry Christmas to you, my awesome flist <3!
Even if you don't celebrate Christmas I wish you some peaceful days with your friends and family. Be safe! Current Mood:  thankful |
primroseburrows
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1:32p |
My Christmas Eve gift to all (very worksafe): See, this is a truly selfless gift, as I do not actually like bananas. *basks in holiday spirit* And now? Gotta go to work. Current Mood: going to work: do not want |
| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
truepenny
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12:37p |
dream a little dream of ...
Another AU Felix & Mildmay dream last night, this one claiming to be an animated series which might aptly be summed up as: "He's a gay wizard with a dark past; he's a cat burglar with a price on his head. Together, they fight crime!" |
sam80853
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10:19a |
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truepenny
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12:10p |
Whatever it is you celebrate, have celebrated, or will celebrate at this time of year, I hope it is, has been, or will be very happy. And I wish you and all the world the very best for 2010. |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
sam80853
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6:19p |
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primroseburrows
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5:56p |
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truepenny
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2:54p |
UBC: The 'Hitler Myth'
Kershaw, Ian. The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Oddly enough, I found an excellent one sentence summation of the thesis of this book in the next book I picked up, H. W. Koch's The Hitler Youth: Origins and Development 1922-1945 (1975): "Since he [Hitler] never said what he meant by 'nationalism' or by 'socialism' he could be, at least for a time, all things to all men" (p. 41). Kershaw's book is an examination of the public image of Hitler, particularly among non-Nazis, and how he managed to stay "all things to all men" for a phenomenally long time. The fundamental excuse which maintained Hitler's popularity, which Kershaw cites evidence for again and again and again, is that Hitler didn't know what his subordinates were doing (when in truth, of course, although the Nazi government was a wildly chaotic machine, no one with Hitler's paranoid and micromanaging character would have tolerated for a second the kind of ignorance people were attributing to him). Every time the Nazi government did something unpopular, Hitler was exculpated, so that Hitler and the NSDAP became widely separated in the minds of non-Nazis, while of course to members of the Nazi Party, Hitler was the NSDAP. Hitler's own very careful practice of speaking in generalities, and toning down his rabid fervor on certain subjects such as the "Jewish Question," and concealing his implacable determination to lead Germany into war, meant that people could project onto him whatever they needed to believe in and keep that quite separate from the dismal day to day realities of living in a fascist state. Kershaw also charts the decline and fall of Hitler's public image, starting with Stalingrad--Germany's first major defeat in WWII was also the first time that the Nazis' propaganda and lies were directly contradicted by inconvenient reality, and after that the chasm just kept getting wider and wider. Hitler's popularity, being built on lies and misdirection and--crucially--success after success, could not survive the truth of defeat. I have one other creepily interesting observation, which is that the standard defense of "Hitler doesn't know what his subordinates are doing" would later be picked up by the Hitler apologist, David Irving, who used it in Hitler's War to argue that Hitler was not responsible for the genocide of the Jews. |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
truepenny
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1:51p |
the happiest geek in geekland
Since I'm spamming LJ today anyway-- The mail just brought me two copies of ESLI Magazine (one of which I will be mailing to Bear here presently), in which appeareth the Russian translation of "Boojum." I can identify which story is "Boojum" because it's the only one with two authors (and I can sort of recognize Bear's name and mine in Cyrillic)--and it has an illustration in which I can recognize both the Lavinia Whateley and Black Alice Bradley. (!) People, I am SO. GEEKED. Endorphin rush and everything. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
truepenny
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1:13p |
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truepenny
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12:47p |
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truepenny
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12:35p |
The Devil's Work
So ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mirrorthaw and I have been joking for a while about this Ph.D. in early American history I'm apparently pursuing in my spare time*, and this morning I realized that I could submit a thesis proposal by January 1st if I needed to. Which, THANK GOODNESS, I don't. Also, ironically, I think it'd be a pretty good book--better in many ways than my actual thesis. Hypothetical title: The Devil's Work: The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692. ( click for outline )So, yeah. I could write this book. I'd even kind of enjoy it. But there is NO WAY IN HELL I'm going back to school, so unless some publisher is crazy enough to want to pay me for it, it shall remain, as it is now, hypothetical vaporware. (Yes, that's a tautology. I'm kind of fond of it.) --- *Despite all the reading about Nazis, I'll never be more than a dilettante in the history of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, because I can't read German (or Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, etc. etc. etc.). Had I But Known, I would have taken German in high school, but I didn't know--and there would have to be some pretty radical changes in my life and my goals for me to take it up now. |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
sam80853
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6:13p |
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sam80853
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5:35p |
Words. Words. Words.
I shall write down some words... Since my place of work fails to provide anything that involves actual work I really should get back to writing. W O R D S !!! Current Mood:  determined |
sam80853
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
primroseburrows
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11:09a |
Writer's Block: Winter wonderland
1. No. I pretty much never long for snow. I don't mind the cold as long as I have a way to be warm, but snow? Not so much. Not any, actually. Well, okay, maybe Christmas eve. But that's it. 2. I'd rather spend my holidays with my family and friends. The location is honestly irrelevant. There should, however, be food. In other news, I might not get home from work tonight because of the impending snowstorm (see #1). *packs jammies* I also will not be able to take Amelia for the day tomorrow like I was going to do. Or go to church. Grr. And also Brr. Current Mood:  hungry |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
primroseburrows
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11:09a |
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primroseburrows
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8:34a |
AL FRANKEN ILU
OMG *PWNED* \0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/\0/Oh, Al, you were SO worth the wait. Current Mood:  quixotic |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
sam80853
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10:20p |
AAAAAAAAAAAAaahhhhhhhhhhh...
I finally got around to watch the latest "White Collar" and I DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST SAW! I DO N O T !!!::hides and lives happily in denial:: Current Mood:  crushed |
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