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[catslash]

Things I am going to hell for:

* Singing Spike Jones's "Der Führer" under my breath while watching a documentary in Western Civ on Hitler's rise to power. (Okay, so this is only one thing. But it can't be good.)

Look, the documentary was awful. I mean, if a documentary uses the phrase "dark, demonic personality," can you really trust it? It's probably a bit much to demand a neutral presentation of facts when it comes to Hitler's reign, but must it be sensationalized? Isn't it shocking enough all by itself?

I Googled the doc in question and found that it was made in 1956, which explains a lot. Including my professor's use of it. I've written about this guy before, and how much I enjoy the effects of his seeming inability to move beyond a grounding point sometime in the seventies, but sometimes it is a bit questionable. There's got to be a billion documentaries on this subject that are better than The Twisted Cross. (See? Even the title is ridiculous!)

. . . anyway. I have been a bit MIA journalwise because I have been having issues with my internet, but this will hopefully be resolved shortly. In the meantime, I have a couple of stories in the works, one of which is finished and needs typing - it's written entirely by hand, on paper; it's been years since I did that! - and one of which is getting there and will need to be presented for inspection by the flist before I unleash it on fandom in general.

Comments

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE ELSE KNOWS THIS SONG.

LOL historiophoty, what?

[catslash.livejournal.com]

*learns a new word*

I had the Dr Demento collection it was on! It's so ridiculously catchy, it's going to be stuck in my head all day now.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

It's such a pretentious and narrowly applicable word. XD However, it's also deucedly accurate here. ^_~

[catslash.livejournal.com]

It is! Sometimes words like that need to exist. You know, like names for objects you see so often you don't expect them to have names, but then you don't know wtf to call them if you ever need to talk about them.

[gileonnen.livejournal.com]

Like schwa.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

*sits ans schwas to herself for a couple minutes*

[ravensgurl211.livejournal.com]

Oh god. That hurts me on so many levels.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. You - and please, please forgive me if my memory fails here, as I have had rather more to drink than I would like to admit - are part Polish and part Jewish, am I correct? That's definitely a couple different levels.

[ravensgurl211.livejournal.com]

Si. We think that there is part Jewish, which is part of the fun of being Polish! Hahah. But, yes, also the history major who loves WWII plays a part in that as well.