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Kevin

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About Me

I work with students at OSU. I enjoy reading literature and examining techniques used to represent complex cultural ideas within a text. My personal research interests include the reception of the Nibelungenlied in Germany and Scandinavia. First and foremost though, I am a father to my two wonderful daughters - both much smarter and more talented than their dad. I am also very lucky to be blessed with a beautiful, energetic and creative wife, who keeps the house cheerful, the floors clean and without whom my research would be impossible.

My Interests


Languages:
German
Danish
Icelandic (Old Norse)

MLK Jr. -
'Why I am against the War in Vietnam'

MLK strikes at the heart of our nation's troubles in our hypocritical role as world-policeman, while yet our own society suffers from moral decay and political apathy.

I'd like to meet:

Noam Chomsky, Klaus von See, Franz Kafka, Alfred Doblin, Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Bill Clinton, William Gibson, Richard Garriot, Stan Lee, Steve Yzerman.

Music:


Rihanna (I love the mixing on her albums!)

80's Flashback Feat. Afrob & Emory - Flashback
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'As a man thinketh, so is he.'" Prov.23:7 (The Message: Modern Translation of the Bible)
This is it (declaration) Kirk Franklin (Please Comment/Request)
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Nephew paa Roskilde
Hospital (feat. L.O.C.)
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Fettes Brot
Fettes Brot- Bettina, zieh dir bitte etwas an
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Switchfoot
Switchfoot - I Dare You To Move
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Flipsyde
Trumpets
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Movies:

Army of Darkness
Time Bandits
Lord of the Rings
Thirteenth Warrior
Silent Hill
Children of Men
Mummy Returns

Television:

X-Men evolution (season 1-3) Justice League Unlimited (Season 1&2) Justice League (Season 2)
Buck Rogers

Wonder Woman
Batman (60's series)
Computer Games:
Fallout
Fallout 2
Baldurs Gate 2
Ultima 9
Age of Myth
Alpha Centauri
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Fifa 2007
NHL 2007

Books:

Berlin Alexanderplatz(Doeblin)
The Magic Mountain(T. Mann)
Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
The Icelandic Sagas
Don Carlos(Schiller)
Beowulf
Nibelungenlied
Voelsungasaga
Naked Lunch
Ticket that Exploded
Junkie(William S. Burroughs)
The Tin Drum(Grass)

Favorite Authors:
F. Schiller
T. Mann
W.S. Burroughs
P.K. Dick
Walter v.d. Vogelweide
Gottfried v. Strassburg
Villy Soerensen
Soeren Kirkegaard
H.C. Andersen
Tove Ditlevsen

Heroes:


Anyone who has broken their addiction, or has reached out to those needing support in order to turn their lives around. To those people that are there for you day in and day out: stable, caring and understanding - these are my heroes.

My Blog

Camilla Save!!!

Camilla Save!!! It was the last game of the year. Camilla and the Raptors won it 5-0. Great Job!!!...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:34:00 PST

Yellow Snow

Sofie got really creative yesterday. With the blizzard, the kids spent a lot of time outside. She took a bucket, filled it with fresh snow, then snuck into the house and took some orange juice and mil...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

Superman

Camilla was playing with her toys today. A tiny supman figurine turned towards the evil Dinosaur (Daddy) and told him, "Back off, Dino-man. You're days of crime are behind you. Prepared to be supervis...
Posted by Kevin on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:54:00 PST

A short poem

Your soul rushes out to me, again plays the melody you gave in my life. My eyes close and a soft light grows before me. I reach out to touch your warm voice in the bright, cold snow out...
Posted by Kevin on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:40:00 PST

The Band-Aid Brand bandage, modernity and the future

One of Modernity's many peculiarities was that it evangelized static systems that were rigid, totalizing, and simplistic.[1] Modernity focused on solutions that were universal and applicable in every ...
Posted by Kevin on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:24:00 PST

Reaction to David Harveys: The Condition of Postmodernity

David Harvey's seems at his best when he summarizes Marx's predictions on the development of capitalism and then applies them to the topic of Post-modernity. It is also interesting to see how the marr...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

Thomasius' work preceding his

In the late 1960s, a series of critical translations of Thomasius would be published to renew the interest of his texts on tolerance and judgment based on reason. The effect of the original texts soug...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:17:00 PST

The modification of Roman law by the Inquisition and its effect on Early Modern Germany

I have taken some notes for my research paper from Henry Lea's Superstition and Force from 1870. The book is rather old but he makes a rather broad sweep of how the ordeals (one example of t...
Posted by Kevin on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:08:00 PST

Mitscherlich's "Peaceable Sex" and Kant's "Towards Eternal Peace"

I am in a 970 class on Violence in Early Modern Germany and today we discussed Margeret Mitscherlich's The Peaceable Sex (1987) and Immanuel Kant's Towards Eternal Peace (1795). Mitsche...
Posted by Kevin on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:56:00 PST

World English bloopers from AP

A student brought this article to me yesterday, there are lot of grammar gems in there...enjoy!!! BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)  It's enough to make a grammarian groan. The European Community, no stranger t...
Posted by Kevin on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:37:00 PST