dialectical dance in four easy steps; courtesy of professor bertell ollman
I watched Sophie Scholl: The Final Days last night. I thought it was good and what a fierce lady she was.
Sophie Magdalena Scholl (1921 - 1943) was a university student and an anti-Nazi activist within the White Rose resistance group during the Third Reich. She was convicted of high treason and promptly executed at age of 21 after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets in Munich.
Kim Dae-jung Dies at 83
At age of 83, the former S. Korean chief Kim Dae-jung passed away on Tuesday. A leading figure during Korea’s liberal-democracy movement in the 1970s, Mr. Kim was the first national politician to emerge out of Jjeola-do, a rural province that had been traditionally ignored by military regimes at the time.
While Mr. Kim is now most fondly remembered for his legacies in financial reforms and reconciliation with the North, his life-long campaign to presidency tells the story of a diehard liberal who evaded death on multiple occasions: once kidnapped by KCIA, targeted by assassins and even sentenced to death on charges of Communist activities.
NY Times Obituary: Kim Dae-jung, Former South Korean President
you’re fucking out, kenny powers is fucking in!
Meet America’s baddest ass trucker mouth, Kenny Powers. Eastbound and Down is the latest HBO comedy series produced by Will Farrell and Danny Mcbride (Foot Fist Way, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder) starring as Kenny Powers, an over-the-hill major leaguer who returns to his hometown and reluctantly begins a new life as an average-joe elementary school gym teacher. Will Farrell also stars in the show as a ridiculously blonde used-BMW salesman, Asheley Schaeffer. Click here for a hilarious scene between Farrell and McBride from the pilot episode. Or try googling “WATCH SITCOM EASTBOUND AND DOWN.” Bam.
o sylvia plath
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), a well-known American poet with an incredible depth of ego and sincerity who also committed suicide at age of 32 by putting her head in the gas oven. To read some of her poems, you can check out the online collection of Sylvia Plath. With all respect to Ms. Plath, what. a. heavy metal. babe.
“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
- Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus (1962)
