There is a bonafide Monkey Island play in Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt.

That is all.

Dear Lucasfilm team ( Read more... )

I was asked this today (fairly sure that there was at least some seriousness to the question) and it felt so ludicrous and kind of hurtful, as well to hear it in such a dismissive tone (I do have a minor degree in literature, after all) that I could only sputter and never actually give a satisfying (satisfying for me, anyway) answer to the question ( Read more... )

This is a quote from a sticker produced by Pink Stinks Germany, an organization fighting against the "pinkification" and genderification of children's toys but also against general sexism in society, mostly German, of course (this is important, as there are a few problems endemic especially in Germany) and it pertains very well to what I ( Read more... )

As promised yesterday, today was a Sylt day. That is, we took the cars and made our way to Niebüll and then we were like "What." and suddenly my brother in law paid an almost three figure sum and the cars and we were sitting on a car train to Westerland/Sylt. Like, we were sitting in the car and the car was on the train and we were going to Sylt. ( Read more... )

Guys, I'm sorry, I just have to. I can't. I.

I saw this in my Facebook timeline, posted by an American friend violently opposed to gun control (which is his prerogative but I'm still finding it stupid. This is, however, not the issue of this rant):

Liberals = Hitler, it's all in there!

( I need a punching bag. With just any reactionary American's face on it. Badly. )

Or at least that's what a friend of mine always likes to say about the subject of higher secondary education and she's absolutely right. Had my first day at uni today, though not an actual uni day, just an introduction given by four people of the program's students council (student counsel are kind of a Thing in Germany. It's all the Americans' ( Read more... )

So, just for the sake of completeness, the application service told me today that my application for a Masters is formally correct and will now be handed over to the University of Potsdam. Yay! Because, you know, that's where it fell through last year. So, I took at least one more hurdle than at my last attempt, that can be counted as a success, ( Read more... )

Was zur Hölle war das, ihr Düsseldorfer Vollpfosten? Und warum ist das verschissene Spiel nicht abgebrochen wurden? Ich check das nicht. Es war doch ganz klar, dass keiner der Hertha-Spieler mehr wollte und dass es richtig gewesen wäre, abzubrechen. Alter, das war doch Dummheit und Dummheit muss verdammt noch mal bestraft werden. Wie kann man denn ( Read more... )

Okay. I think the LJ people really lost it now. Apparently, according to this article, us longtime users are worth shit to LJ. They don't care about us, the people who've been paying their goddamn salaries with our fucking money for years and years because... I don't even know why. Why are we of no interest to you, LJ people? Whatever did we do? ( Read more... )